Rapidly established guidelines for the diagnosis and management of vaccine-induced thrombocytopenia and thrombosis (VITT) - a double-edged sword?

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Catherine N Bagot. Br J Haematol. 2021 Oct.

. 2021 Oct;195(1):9-10.

doi: 10.1111/bjh.17705. Epub 2021 Aug 2.

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Vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) - a novel clinico-pathological entity with heterogeneous clinical presentations.
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