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Treatment of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

Terapevticheskii arkhiv, 2021
The review discusses approaches to treatment of congenital thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) or Upshaw-Schulman syndrome. In congenital TTP, plasma transfusions are sufficient. Such treatment options as plasma exchange, administration of clotting factor VIII concentrate, recombinant ADAMTS13, are also used.
Gennadii M. Galstyan, Alexei A. Maschan, Elizaveta E. Klebanova, Irina I. Kalinina   +3 more
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Clinical surveillance of thrombotic microangiopathies in Scotland, 2003-2005 [PDF]

, 2007
The prevalence, incidence and outcomes of haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) and thrombotic thrombocytopaenic purpura (TTP) are not well established in adults or children from prospective studies. We sought to identify both outcomes and current management
D. YOUNG, Hosler, K. G. J. POLLOCK, Marques, Sadler, T. J. BEATTIE, Tarr, Van Dyck, W. T. A. TODD   +8 more
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Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura in Dengue Fever

Acta Medica Indonesiana, 2021
Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura is a rare but life threatening medical condition. Early recognition and treatment of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura is important especially in patients who do not present with the classic pentad to reduce the ...
Tze Yuan Tee, Rizna Abdul Cader
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Human neutrophil peptides and complement factor Bb in pathogenesis of acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

Haematologica, 2016
Acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura is primarily caused by the deficiency of plasma ADAMTS13 activity resulting from autoantibodies against ADAMTS13.
Wenjing Cao, Huy P. Pham, Lance A. Williams, Jenny McDaniel, Rance C. Siniard, Robin G. Lorenz, Marisa B. Marques, X. Long Zheng   +7 more
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Inherited thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

Haematologica, 2009
Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a life-threatening disorder characterized by thrombocytopenia and microangiopathic hemolytic anemia accompanied by variable neurological dysfunction, renal failure and fever.[1][1] Lesions consist of vessel wall thickening (mainly arterioles ...
Miriam Galbusera, Marina Noris, Giuseppe Remuzzi   +2 more
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Increased plasma von Willebrand factor antigen levels but normal von Willebrand factor cleaving protease (ADAMTS13) activity in preeclampsia. [PDF]

, 2009
The activity of ADAMTS13, the von Willebrand factor (VWF) cleaving protease is low in several conditions, including HELLP (haemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelet count) syndrome.
Bõze, Tamás, Cervenak, László, Derzsy, Zoltán, Gombos, Tímea, Hársfalvi, Jolán, Makó, Veronika, Molvarec, Attila, Prohászka, Zoltán, Rigó, János, Udvardy, Miklós László   +9 more
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Post-Partum Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP) in a Patient with known Idiopathic (Immune) Thrombocytopenic Purpura: a case report and review of the literature

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2018
Background Incidences of immune thrombocytopenic purpura occur in 1 in every 1000–10,000 pregnancies accounting for 3% of all thrombocytopenic pregnancies.
Naser Al-Husban, Oqba Al-Kuran
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Treatment of acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura without plasma exchange in selected patients under caplacizumab

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2020
Acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (aTTP) is a rare, life‐threatening autoimmune thrombotic microangiopathy. Current standard of care is therapeutic plasma exchange, immunosuppression, and caplacizumab, an anti‐von Willebrand factor nanobody ...
L. Völker, P. Brinkkoetter, P. Knöbl, M. Krstić, J. Kaufeld, J. Menne, V. Buxhofer-Ausch, W. Miesbach   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Characterization of the complications associated with plasma exchange for thrombotic thrombocytopaenic purpura and related thrombotic microangiopathic anaemias: a single institution experience. [PDF]

, 2014
Plasma exchange (PEX) is a life-saving therapeutic procedure in patients with thrombotic thrombocytopaenic purpura (TTP) and other thrombotic microangiopathic anaemias (TMAs). However, it may be associated with significant complications, exacerbating the
Collier, D, Leverett, D, McGuckin, S, Scully, M, Webster, H, Westwood, JP   +5 more
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Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2005
This overview summarizes the history of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) from its initial recognition in 1924 as a most often fatal disease to the discovery in 1997 of ADAMTS-13 deficiency as a major risk factor for acute disease manifestation.
J. A. Kremer Hovinga, Bernhard Lämmle, Lorenzo Alberio   +2 more
openaire   +5 more sources