Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura - Hemolytic uremic syndrome (TTP- HUS) following treatment with deoxycoformycin in a patient with cutaneous T- cell lymphoma (sezary syndrome): A case report

American Journal of Hematology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 268-270

  Leach, Joseph W ^a   Pham, Trinh ^b   Diamandidis, Dimitris ^a   George, James N ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Deoxycoformycin; Hemolytic uremic syndrome; Pentostatin; Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura; TTPHUS

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; ISOTRETINOIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PENTOSTATIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; CASE REPORT; CONFUSION; DISORIENTATION; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FEVER; HALLUCINATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUVA; SEZARY SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA;

ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PENTOSTATIN; PLASMA EXCHANGE; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC; SEZARY SYNDROME;

EID: 0032820156     PISSN: 03618609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8652(199908)61:4<268::AID-AJH9>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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