Massive intracranial bleeding requiring emergency splenectomy in a patient with CMV-associated thrombocytopenia

Haemostasis

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 250-255

  Gural, Alexander ^a   Gillis, Shmuel ^a   Gafanovich, Anna ^a   Israel, Zvi ^a   Wolf, Danna ^a   Pomeranz, Shlomo ^a   Ben Yehuda, Dina ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cytomegalovirus; Intracranial bleeding; Splenectomy; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY SURGERY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0032312811     PISSN: 03010147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000022439     Document Type: Article

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