Successful management of severe idiopathic thrombocytopenia in the second trimester of pregnancy

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 233-235

  Antsaklis, A ^a   Papageorgiu, I ^a   Sindos, M ^a   Katsimanis, E ^a   Karaiskakis, P ^a   Michalas, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antiplatelet antibodies; Idiopathic thrombocytopenia; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; GLOBULIN; THROMBOCYTE ANTIBODY; VINBLASTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PREGNANCY; PRIMIGRAVIDA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SPLENECTOMY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; PLATELET COUNT; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VINBLASTINE;

EID: 0031737267     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000020844     Document Type: Article

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