KROK 1 2011 – Question 102 · KROK (Medicine) · Pharmacology
A patient with acute myocardial infarction has been administered heparin as a part of complex therapy. Some time after heparin injection the patient developed hematuria. What heparin antagonist should be injected in order to manage the complication?
- A. Protamine sulfate
- B. Fibrinogen
- C. Vicasol
- D. Neodicumarin
- E. Aminocaproic acid
Hint
Heparin is a strongly negatively charged molecule; ask which kind of agent would bind and neutralise it directly rather than act on the clotting pathways.
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