Stop anticoagulation in HIT when platelets have recovered

Duration of anticoagulation in acute HIT patients without VTE is until platelet recovery, >150. Do not treat for > 30 months unless there is persistant HIT. 1

Footnotes

  1. Adam Cuker, Gowthami M. Arepally, Beng H. Chong, Douglas B. Cines, Andreas Greinacher, Yves Gruel, Lori A. Linkins, Stephen B. Rodner, Sixten Selleng, Theodore E. Warkentin, Ashleigh Wex, Reem A. Mustafa, Rebecca L. Morgan, Nancy Santesso; American Society of Hematology 2018 guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: heparin-induced thrombocytopenia. Blood Adv 2018; 2 (22): 3360–3392. doi: https://doi.org/10.1182/bloodadvances.2018024489 ↩