Alternative therapies for neonatal autoimmune thrombocytopenia

Vox Sanguinis

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 198-200

  Ovali, Fahri ^a,b   Samanci, Nedim ^a   Ermiş, Bahri ^a   Akdoǧan, Zeliha ^a   Daǧoǧlu, Türkan ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, MATERNALLY-ACQUIRED; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFANT, NEWBORN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PLATELET COUNT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2642620242     PISSN: 00429007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000030931     Document Type: Article

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