Poor response to prednisolone of idiopathic thrombocytopenia with human T-lymphotropic virus type I infection

American Journal of Hematology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 20-23

  Matsushita, Kakushi ^a   Arima, Naomichi ^a   Ohtsubo, Hideo ^a   Fujiwara, Hiroshi ^a   Arimura, Kosei ^a   Kukita, Toshimasa ^a   Ozaki, Atsuo ^a   Hidaka, Shiroh ^a   Matsumoto, Tadashi ^b   Tei, Chuwa ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Jiaikai Imamura Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

HTLV I; ITP; Prednisolone; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BONE MARROW CELL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEGAKARYOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HTLV-I INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT; PREDNISOLONE; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0036711536     PISSN: 03618609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajh.10173     Document Type: Article

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