Treatment-resistant infantile Evans syndrome

Pediatrics International

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 502-504

  Muwakkit, Samar ^a   Rachid, Rima ^a   Bazarbachi, Ali ^a   Araysi, Thurayya ^a   Dbaibo, Ghassan S ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Anticardiolipin antibodies; Evans syndrome; Infancy; Splenectomy

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COOMBS TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ECCHYMOSIS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MALE; PETECHIA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, AUTOIMMUNE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYCLOSPORINE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFANT; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; SPLENECTOMY; SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0035725927     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-200X.2001.01429.x     Document Type: Article

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