A case of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura refractory to plasma exchange

Therapeutic Apheresis

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 49-53

  Okamoto, Masanori ^a,b   Abe, Takaya ^a   Shouno, Mineo ^a   Kitabata, Yukiko ^a   Narukawa, Nobuhiko ^a   Kobata, Hirotugu ^a   Akizawa, Tadao ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lung abscess; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Plasma exchange; Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; HABEKACIN; PREDNISOLONE; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN; VINCRISTINE;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; LUNG ABSCESS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMA EXCHANGE; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0035120291     PISSN: 10916660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-0968.2001.005001049.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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