Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia, 2nd Edition (Fundamental and Clinical Cardiology) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0824706587 ISBN 13: 9780824706586

Publisher: CRC Press, 2001

Synopsis

Updated and revised, this work explores the pathogenesis, clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of blood clots caused by anticoagulants. It provides 10 clinical rules for recognizing and treating heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT).

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About the Author

THEODORE E. WARKENTIN is Professor, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, and Department of Medicine, McMaster University; and Associate Head, Transfusion Medicine, Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program; and Hematologist, Service of Clinical Hematology, Hamilton Health Sciences, all in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The author, coauthor, or editor of more than 200 professional publications, journal articles, and book chapters, Dr. Warkentin is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American College of Physicians. Dr. Warkentin received the M.D. degree from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, and completed postgraduate studies in internal medicine and clinical hematology, respectively, at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

ANDREAS GREINACHER is Director of the Department of Transfusion Medicine, Institute for Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University-Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany. Dr. Greinacher received the M.D. degree from the Julius Maximilian University, Würzburg, Germany, and finished training in clinical immunology and transfusion medicine at the Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than 200 professional publications, journal articles, and book chapters.

Review

...provide[s] in-depth coverage of the subject...Consultants in hematology as well as any clinician prescribing heparin therapy should be aware of the existence of this book.
-Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis

The editors have devoted a major portion of their professional careers to the diagnosis, understanding of the pathologic processes involved, and the treatment of this devastating complication of heparin therapy. Each of the authors has been carefully selected...
[This book] should be in every hospital library.
-Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0824706587
• ISBN 13: 9780824706586
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Theodore Warkentin, Greinacher Andreas