How do you manage HIT in a patient with high bleeding risk?

Topics: Thrombosis • Hematology • Benign Hematology

e.g. in the setting of using prophylactic heparin in the past but now requiring therapeutic anticoagulation

Answer from: at Academic Institution

If bleeding risk associated with the administration of an alternative anticoagulant is unacceptably risky, I usually recommend the administration of IVIG. Theodore E. Warkentin, PMID 31274032

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