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Venous thromboembolism in heparin-induced thrombocytopenia

2000· review· en· W2000025621 on OpenAlexaff
Theodore E. Warkentin

Bibliographic record

VenueCurrent Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine · 2000
Typereview
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicHeparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia and Thrombosis
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineLepirudinPulmonary embolismHeparin-induced thrombocytopeniaHeparinThrombosisDeep veinPlateletPlatelet activationWarfarinVenous thrombosisGangreneArgatrobanCoagulationAnticoagulantThrombinInternal medicineSurgeryAtrial fibrillation

Abstract

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Deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism are among the most common complications of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT), an antibody-mediated adverse effect of heparin that leads paradoxically to in vivo activation of platelets and the coagulation system. Inappropriate treatment of HIT-associated DVT with warfarin can cause the DVT to progress to limb gangrene: this results from impaired ability of the protein C natural anticoagulant pathway to down-regulate thrombin generation, thus leading to microvascular thrombosis and tissue necrosis. Appreciation of the importance of coagulation system activation in HIT provides a rationale for treatments that reduce thrombin generation, either via inhibiting factor Xa (danaparoid) or via inhibiting thrombin directly (lepirudin). Clinicians should know how to distinguish HIT from other thrombocytopenic disorders: for example, thrombocytopenia associated with pulmonary embolism can mimic HIT (pseudo-HIT), and acute dyspnea that can mimic acute pulmonary embolism can result from acute in vivo platelet activation in a patient with HIT antibodies who receives heparin bolus therapy (pseudo-pulmonary embolism).

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.016

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.003
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0020.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.005

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.221
GPT teacher head0.449
Teacher spread0.227 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2000
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