Novel Applications of Anticoagulation with Bivalirudin in Cardiac Surgery
We have successfully done off pump total arterial coronary surgery (CABG) using Bivalirudin in a patient awaiting liver transplantation with history of variceal bleed and thrombocytopenia and also in another patient we used Bivalirudin for traumatic mitral regurgitation and heparin induced thrombocytopenia , who underwent mitral valve repair successfully.