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How do you manage recurrent hemodialysis filter clotting in an in-center ESKD patient with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia?

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Nephrology · University Of California San Francisco Medical Center At Parnassus
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I have actually not faced this situation recently. something that may be tried though:

  1. flush the lines more frequently with saline,
  2. giving patients dose of eliquis orally prior to treatment,
  3. other anticoagulant?