Successful steroid treatment of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura after orthotopic liver transplantation for primary biliary cirrhosis

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1985-1986

  Fickert, Peter ^a   Trauner, Michael ^a   Sill, Heinz ^a   Hinterleitner, Thomas A ^a   Stauber, Rudolf E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; THROMBIN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDNISOLONE; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC;

EID: 0032442993     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.1998.00561.x     Document Type: Article

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