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Success of Helicobacter pylori Eradication Therapy and Long Lasting Platelet Recovery in an Iranian Patient with Severe Immune Thrombocytopenia [PDF]

Journal of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2021
Background: Helicobacter pylori is a gram-negative spirochete that usually affects the gastric mucosa and has a prevalence of more than 50% of people worldwide.
Esmaeil Shahabi Satlsar, Maryam Sadat Hosseini, Parisa Taheri, Farahnaz Ghahremanfard, Abbas Ali Imani Fooladi, Mohammad Mosleh   +5 more
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Understanding Immune Thrombocytopenia: Looking Out of the Box

Frontiers in Medicine, 2021
The pathogenesis of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is increasingly being elucidated, and its etiology is becoming more frequently identified, leading to a diagnostic shift from primary to secondary ITP.
Alexandra Schifferli, Alexandra Schifferli, Franco Cavalli, Bertrand Godeau, Howard A. Liebman, Mike Recher, Paul Imbach, Thomas Kühne, Thomas Kühne   +8 more
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COVID-19-associated immune thrombocytopenia [PDF]

Romanian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious respiratory tract infection caused by the betacoronavirus SARS-CoV-2. The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020.
Mara-Andrada Plesu, Gabriel Cristian Bejan, Ioana Veronica Grajdeanu, Anca Angela Simionescu, Ana Maria Alexandra Stanescu   +4 more
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Treatment of drug-induced immune thrombocytopenias

Haematologica, 2022
Several therapeutic agents can cause thrombocytopenia by either immune-mediated or non-immune-mediated mechanisms. Non-immune-mediated thrombocytopenia is due to direct toxicity of drug molecules to platelets or megakaryocytes.
Irene Marini, Gunalp Uzun, Kinan Jamal, Tamam Bakchoul   +3 more
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Comparison of Published Guidelines for the Diagnosis and the Management of Vaccine-Induced Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia

Critical Care Explorations, 2021
OBJECTIVES:. The development of thrombocytopenia and thrombosis after the administration of the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson/Janssen vaccines has been recently described.
Luca Zazzeron, MD, Rachel P. Rosovsky, MD, Edward A. Bittner, MD, PhD, Marvin G. Chang, MD, PhD   +3 more
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Reliability and validity of the Amharic version of immune thrombocytopenia life quality index tool for assessment of the health-related quality of life in Ethiopian patients of immune thrombocytopenia: Cross-sectional study

SAGE Open Medicine, 2023
Background: Platelet count and bleeding risk are frequently used in clinical assessments of the severity of immune thrombocytopenia. On the other hand, immune thrombocytopenia also influences patients’ health-related quality of life.
Dessale Abate Beyene, Eskinder Ayalew Sisay, Atalay Mulu Fentie, Amha Gebremedhin   +3 more
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Delayed onset of severe immune thrombocytopenia associated with COVID-19 pneumonia

Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2021
A 72-year-old Japanese man was admitted to our hospital for treatment of severe COVID-19 pneumonia and was started on favipiravir, heparin calcium, and methylprednisolone pulse therapy. He recovered from respiratory failure about one month later. However,
Shintaro Sato, Moegi Kurachi, Hiroki Ohta, Tomohiko Nakamura, Tomohiro Oba, Rie Kawabe, Hideaki Yamakawa, Masako Amano, Hidekazu Matsushima   +8 more
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Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt, local thrombaspiration, and lysis for management of fulminant portomesenteric thrombosis and atraumatic splenic rupture due to vector-vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2022
Introduction Recombinant adenoviral vector vaccines against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 have been observed to be associated with vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia.
Sandra Emily Stoll, Patrick Werner, Wolfgang A. Wetsch, Fabian Dusse, Alexander C. Bunck, Matthias Kochanek, Felix Popp, Thomas Schmidt, Christiane Bruns, Bernd W. Böttiger   +9 more
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How I approach new onset thrombocytopenia

Platelets, 2020
Thrombocytopenia is a common reason for referral to hematologists in community and hospital practice. A broad differential diagnosis, combined with the potentially life-threatening nature of some presentations necessitates a rapid evaluation of the ...
Fiona Swain, Robert Bird
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Immune Thrombocytopenia Induced by the Chimpanzee Adenovirus-Vectored Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Vaccines, 2021
We present a case of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) induced by the chimpanzee adenovirus-vectored vaccine, without evidence of thrombosis, eight days after vaccine administration.
Po-Wei Liao, Chieh-Lin Jerry Teng, Cheng-Wei Chou   +2 more
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