Combined thrombopoietin and platelet response to altitude in a patient with autoimmune thrombocytopenia

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 626-627

  Krafft, Alexander ^a   Huch, Renate ^b   Hartmann, Sabine ^b   Breymann, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; THROMBOPOIETIN;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEISURE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 1642394052     PISSN: 03406245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1614287     Document Type: Article

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