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BLOOD
Volume 115, Issue 9, Pages 1797-1803Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2009-07-231506
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- Novartis, Nurnberg, Germany
- DFG [1096/2-4]
- German Federal Ministry for Education and Research [NBL3]
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Heparin can induce heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT). The combined effect of type of surgery (major vs minor) and heparin on this prothrombotic immune reaction to platelet factor 4 (PF4)/heparin was analyzed. In a randomized, double-blind study, trauma patients receiving low-molecular-weight (LMWH) or unfractionated heparin (UFH) for thrombosis prophylaxis were assessed for PF4/heparin-antibody seroconversion, HIT, and thrombosis according to type of surgery. The risk for seroconversion was higher than major versus minor surgery odds ratio, 7.98 [95% confidence interval, 2.06-31.00], P=.003, controlled for potential confounders, as was the risk for HIT (2.2% [95% confidence interval, 0.3%-4.1%] vs 0.0%, P=.010). During LMWH compared with UFH thromboprophylaxis, HIT (1 of 298 vs 4 of 316; P=.370) and PF4/heparin seroconversion (1.7% vs 6.6%; P=.002) were less frequent, driven by differences in patients undergoing major surgery (incidence of HIT: LMWH 0.8% vs UFH 4.0%; P=.180; seroconversion rates: 4.0% vs 17.0%; P=.001). After minor surgery, no case of HIT occurred. The severity of trauma and the need for major surgery strongly influence the risk of an anti-PF4/heparin immune response, which is then increased by UFH. In major trauma certoparin may be safer than UFH because it induces HIT-antibody seroconversion, and the corresponding risk of HIT, less frequently. (Blood. 2010;115:1797-1803)
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