December 11, 2006 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Baxter Healthcare Corp have warned healthcare professionals regarding the risk for delayed-onset heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT ...

Purpose. The performance of a weight-based dosing protocol for unfractionated heparin (UFH) infusions using antifactor Xa monitoring was evaluated. Methods. The first 50 patients to receive a UFH ...

LAKE ZURICH, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fresenius Kabi announced today it has introduced in the United States two new presentations of Heparin Sodium in convenient, ready-to-administer Freeflex ® IV bags.

Thiotepa-Based High-Dose Chemotherapy With Autologous Stem-Cell Rescue in Patients With Recurrent or Progressive CNS Germ Cell Tumors Patients with advanced malignancy (N = 385) were randomly assigned ...

A team of researchers developed 3 quality improvement measures embedded in electronic health records (EHRs) to improve care delivery in patients with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia. HIT is known as ...

WASHINGTON, DC—For STEMI patients undergoing PCI, pretreatment with a loading dose of unfractionated heparin at first medical contact improves spontaneous reperfusion of the infarct-related artery ...

Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is a clinically significant immune-mediated adverse reaction to heparin therapy. It is typified by a reduction in circulating platelets while paradoxically ...

Researchers at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC) have discovered and synthesized a number of molecules that inhibit the effects of ...