Starting off the second day of the annual meeting of the BSTH, Andreas Greinacher (Greifswald, Germany) presented on the mechanism behind heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT). A mechanism that is part of an evolutionary old defence mechanism against prokaryotic pathogens. However, when misdirected this pathway displays an until recently unknown mechanism of autoimmunity.
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