How to Use heparin in a Sentence
heparin
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The wipeout could create shortages of food and supplies of products made from pigs, such as the blood-thinner heparin.
—National Geographic, 7 Nov. 2019
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The other trial will study the use of heparin in patients who are hospitalized.
—Anna Edney, Bloomberg.com, 10 Sep. 2020
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But the people who received the AstraZeneca vaccine and developed the clots hadn't taken heparin.
—Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 13 Apr. 2021
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The blood-thinner heparin, made from pig products and largely sourced from China, could also face shortages, Schipp said.
—Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2019
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Snyder didn’t send him to the hospital but instead treated him with amyl nitrate for angina; heparin, a blood thinner; and morphine for the pain.
—Marc Siegel, Slate Magazine, 19 Jan. 2017
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Some doctors have tried using blood thinners such as heparin to try to reduce the clotting, but there's not enough evidence to show whether such treatment helps patients survive.
—Maggie Fox, CNN, 17 Apr. 2020
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For clots in the legs, doctors usually will put a patient on injectable or IV blood thinners (like heparin), and then move them to blood thinners in a pill form (like warfarin or dabigatran), the Mayo Clinic says.
—Korin Miller, SELF, 17 July 2018
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Health officials said one reason for the J&J pause was to make sure doctors know how to treat patients suspected of having these clots, which includes avoiding giving heparin.
—Lauran Neergaard, chicagotribune.com, 13 Apr. 2021
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Its version of the blood-thinner heparin drew plaudits — and a bump in stock prices — after a contamination outbreak in other thinners killed dozens of people.
—John Wilkens, Pomerado News, 13 Apr. 2018
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The blood-thinning medication heparin is commonly used to treat clots but could be hazardous if used in these situations.
—Jeremy Olson, Star Tribune, 13 Apr. 2021
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The contaminant, which is very cheap, was similar in chemical structure to heparin and was able to go undetected in routine tests.
—Marsha Blackburn, STAT, 14 Feb. 2020
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In the affected patients, researchers have seen a rare clotting reaction similar to a rare side effect of the blood-thinning medication heparin.
—Leah Rosenbaum, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
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The company has since shipped several other essential medicines, including the blood thinner heparin and the opioid overdose rescue drug, naloxone.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2020
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They may also be restricted in using certain medication such as heparin, which uses pig intestines.
—Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2023
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Patients should be given anti-clotting drugs, but not heparin, and infusions of a blood product called intravenous immunoglobulin may replace the depleted platelets.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 19 Apr. 2021
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His team has started such a study and going forward will test varying doses of either the classic blood thinner heparin or one of the newer, oral anticoagulant drugs such as dabigatran, a direct thrombin inhibitor.
—Maggie Fox, CNN, 6 May 2020
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These guys in Italy, based on their experience, are saying that prophylactic doses of the anticoagulants heparin or Lovenox or something along those lines should be continued for 14 days after the patient has been discharged home.
—Lauren Caruba, ExpressNews.com, 9 July 2020
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Occasionally a drug is an animal product itself, such as the anti-clotting injection heparin or the female hormone product Premarin.
—Teresa Graedon, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2017
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Among the medicines that could be affected are insulin, epinephrine, heparin, antibiotics, antidepressants, tranquilizers, and vaccines, according to the list released by the U.S. trade representative.
—Ed Silverman, STAT, 4 Apr. 2018
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The company provided such common treatments as heparin, hormones, Progesterone, vitamin supplements and diuretics.
—Andrea Chang, latimes.com, 13 Apr. 2018
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