Relationship between Warfarin and Thrompocytosis (A Case Report Study)

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Cardiology department Internal Medicine department

2 Critical Care unit Internal Medicine department

3 Pediatric department Internal Medicine department

4 Taif Children Hospital, Taif, Saudi Arabia

10.12816/0033781

Abstract

This report is point to patient admitted to our hospital as case of G6PD and dilated cardiomyopathy, with congestive heart failure started on anti-failure and aspirin and need to be admitted on ICU for inotropic support, then on the 2nd day the patient developed thrombocytopenia then we stopped aspirin and warfarin started after using of warfarin by one-day patient developed sever thrombocytosis so we consider to start low molecular heparin which improved the platelets count then started to decreased to normal range in 5 days duration after LMH started.
 

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The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine
Volume 65, Issue 1
October 2016
Pages 672-673

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