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Introduction. Sunitinib malate is an oral multitargeting tyrosine kinase inhibitor approved for the first line treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma.
Imane El Dika +4 more
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Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura and Gemcitabine [PDF]
Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a rare and life-threatening complication of gemcitabine treatment. Since the approval of this nucleoside analog for the treatment of pancreatic cancer by the FDA in 1996, reported incidence varies from 0.015 to 1.4%.
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Preemptive rituximab infusions prevent relapses in immune thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (iTTP) by maintaining normal ADAMTS13 activity. However, the long-term outcome of these patients and the potential adverse events of this strategy need to be ...
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Hump-nosed viper bites are frequent in southern India and Sri Lanka. However, the published literature on this snakebite is limited and its venom composition is not well characterized.
Milinda Withana +3 more
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Diagnosis of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a rare, life-threatening disease, disease, characterised by microangiopathic hemolytic anaemia, consumption thrombocytopenia, and organ dysfunction. The pathogenesis of TTP is attributed to the deficiency in the activity of the metalloproteinase ADAMTS13, specific von Willebrand factor cleaving protease. TTP
G. M. Galstyan, E. E. Klebanova
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ABSTRACT Congenital thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (cTTP) is an ultra‐rare, life‐threatening thrombotic microangiopathy caused by a severe inherited deficiency of ADAMTS13, a von Willebrand factor (VWF) cleaving enzyme. Inadequate clinical endpoint data often make it challenging to statistically power clinical trials in ultra‐rare diseases ...
Cameron McBride +8 more
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Fei Lv,1,2 Yue Zhao,2 Xing-Di Yang,2 Han-Zhu Chen,2 Wen-Ya Ren,2 Ling-Xia Chen,2 Qiao-Qiao Yi,2 Wei Zheng,2 Hong-Ying Pan2 1The Second Clinical Medical College, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310053, People’s Republic of China ...
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Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura: Toward targeted therapy and precision medicine
Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a thrombotic microangiopathy characterized by severe congenital or immune‐mediated deficiency in ADAMTS13, the enzyme that cleaves von Willebrand factor multimers.
P. Coppo, A. Cuker, J. George
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We report an exceptional case of cardiac angiosarcoma in which diffuse alveolar haemorrhage was caused by both pulmonary metastases and Kasabach–Merritt syndrome. Strategies to achieve transfusion‐independent haemostasis such as high PEEP may create an opportunity for prompt biopsy and facilitate timely initiation of definitive treatment.
Takuma Ikeda, Satoru Terada, Kazuo Endo
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