Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura with severe large artery branch involvement [2]

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 467-468

  Ibernon, Mer ^a   Moreso, F ^a   Carreras, L ^a   Carrera, M ^a   Serrano, T ^a   Rama, I ^a   Bestard, O ^a   Torras, J ^a   Poveda, R ^a   Grinyo J M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; COOMBS TEST; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEADACHE; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEMATURIA; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; ARTERIOLES; AUTOPSY; BLOOD PRESSURE; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; PAPILLEDEMA; PLASMA EXCHANGE; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC;

EID: 14044262157     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh596     Document Type: Letter

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