Severe thrombocytopaenia in a patient
after acute myocardial infarction with influenza

Katarzyna Barwinek; Joanna Dziurzyńska; Aleksandra Błaszczyk

doi:10.5114/ppiel.2023.133340

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abstract:

Case report

Severe thrombocytopaenia in a patient after acute myocardial infarction with influenza

Katarzyna Barwinek

¹

,

Joanna Dziurzyńska

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,

Aleksandra Błaszczyk

¹

Collegium Medicum, Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce, Poland

Nursing Problems 2023; 31 (3): 148-152

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/ppiel.2023.133340

Online publish date: 2023/12/06

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This paper presents the case of 59-year-old patient who presented to the clinic with weakness, shortness of breath at rest, fever, and dry cough. Based on laboratory tests and physical examination, the patient was diagnosed with pneumonia. On the third day of hospitalization the patient presented resting, burning pain in the chest. Electrocardiogram (ECG) showed signs of STEMI. The percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) attempt was not therapeutically successful, and the patient received heparin. Progressive thrombocytopaenia was found after myocardial infarction. Based on this, an assumption of heparin-induced thrombocytopaenia was made. Any clinical suspicion of heparin-induced thrombocytopaenia requires that treatment should not be withheld pending the result. This paper pays attention to this problem.

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Severe thrombocytopaenia in a patient after acute myocardial infarction with influenza

Katarzyna Barwinek 1 , Joanna Dziurzyńska 1 , Aleksandra Błaszczyk 1

thrombocytopaenia, heparin, acute myocardial infarction, heparin-induced thrombocytopaenia

Katarzyna Barwinek

¹

,

Joanna Dziurzyńska

¹

,

Aleksandra Błaszczyk

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