A case report on the use of recombinant hirudin as an anticoagulant for cardiopulmonary bypass in open heart surgery

Abstract

We present a patient with coronary heart disease and a heparin- induced thrombocytopenia , who was successfully treated by coronary ar- tery bypass grafting (CABG) using recombinant hirudin as an anticoagu- lant for cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) instead of heparin. (Eur J Car- dio-thorac Surg (1996) 10: 386-388)