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Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, Moschcowitz Syndrome [PDF]

, 2001
The authors present a case of a 16-year-old boy, who was referred to the hospital due to thrombocytopenia, anemia, proteinuria and hyperbilirubinemia. Based on the clinical picture and the laboratory data, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) was ...
Czinyéri, Judit, Sasvári, Ildikó, Kovács, Gábor, Garami, Miklós, Müller, Judit   +4 more
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Secondary immune thrombocytopenic purpura with renal cell carcinoma

IJU Case Reports, 2019
Introduction Several types of cancers are reported to induce secondary immune thrombocytopenia resembling immune thrombocytopenic purpura‐like syndrome. However, renal cell carcinoma‐induced immune thrombocytopenic purpura is an extremely rare phenomenon.
Shigeaki Nakazawa, Masataka Kawamura, Kosuke Nakano, Norichika Ueda, Hidefumi Kishikawa, Hirokazu Kashiwagi, Motohide Uemura, Ryoichi Imamura, Kenji Nishimura, Norio Nonomura   +9 more
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Advances in ITP - therapy and quality of life - a patient survey. [PDF]

, 2011
Current guidelines recommend glucocorticoids and splenectomy as standard 1(st) and 2(nd) line treatments for chronic immune thrombocytopenia (ITP). We sought to find out how German ITP-patients are treated with respect to these guidelines.
Axel C Matzdorff, Hummler, Simone, Sonja Eberle, Arnold, Gabriele, Abdulgabar Salama, Ostermann, Helmut, Helmut Ostermann, Matzdorff, Axel C., Gabriele Arnold, Simone Hummler, Eberle, Sonja, Axel C. Matzdorff, Salama, Abdulgabar   +12 more
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Immune Thrombocytopenia as a Consequence of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

Case Reports in Oncology, 2017
Primary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) – also called idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura or immune thrombocytopenic purpura – is an acquired thrombocytopenia caused by autoantibodies against platelet antigens.
Cherisse Baldeo, Karan Seegobin, Lara Zuberi   +2 more
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Thrombocytopenia in Pregnancy: A Cross-Sectional Study in Northern Pakistan

Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2022
Objective: To determine the association of thrombocytopenia (mild, moderate & severe) with pregnancy-related disorders. Study Design: Cross-sectional study.
Ayesha Ellahi, Muhammad Wasiullah Khan, Samra Shahid, Javaid Usman, Hassan Ikran, Safoora Naveed   +5 more
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Disease pathogenesis, treatment effectiveness, and co-morbid burden among adult patients with primary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) [PDF]

, 2011
Background Primary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is an autoimmune disease involving autoantibody-mediated platelet destruction, suboptimal platelet production, and T-cell-mediated platelet lysis.

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Evaluation of the diagnostic performance of platelet-derived indices for the differential diagnosis of thrombocytopenia in pediatrics

Revista de la Facultad de Medicina, 2014
Background. Platelet-derived indices have a well-established correlation with the differential diagnosis of thrombocytopenia in adult-based research. These indices include mean platelet volume, platelet distribution width, and platelet-large cell ratio.
Nelson Hernando Aponte-Barrios, Adriana Linares-Ballesteros, Isabel Cristina Sarmiento-Urbina, Gloria Inés Uribe-Botero   +3 more
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Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome that was initially diagnosed as immune thrombocytopenic purpura secondary to a cytomegalovirus infection

SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2018
Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome is a rare X-linked recessive disease resulting from variations in the WAS gene. Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome is sometimes difficult to differentiate from immune thrombocytopenic purpura. A 2-month-old boy was admitted to our hospital
Ryota Kaneko, Shohei Yamamoto, Naoko Okamoto, Kosuke Akiyama, Ryosuke Matsuno, Daisuke Toyama, Akihiro Hoshino, Kohsuke Imai, Keiichi Isoyama   +8 more
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“Living under the sword of Damocles”: a psychological support project for patients with immune thrombocytopenia and their caregivers

Bleeding, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology
Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is an autoimmune disease that causes a drop in platelet count
Giuseppe Auteri, Laura Ricci, Nicola Vianelli, Barbara Lovrencic   +3 more
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A clinical case of thrombocytopenic purpura in a 13-year-old child

Лечащий Врач
Background. Immune thrombocytopenic purpura is an immune-mediated disease that develops as a result of impaired immune tolerance to platelet antigens and the formation of antibodies to them, followed by a decrease in platelet levels per unit volume of ...
A. Yu. Babko, O. B. Gordeeva, A. V. Dobrotok   +2 more
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