Treatment of immune thrombocytopenic purpura in children current concepts

Pediatric Drugs

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 325-336

  Shad, Aziza T ^a,b   Gonzalez, Corina E ^a   Sandler, S G ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; DANAZOL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; RHESUS D ANTIBODY; RITUXIMAB; VINCRISTINE;

ANEMIA; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; CATARACT; CHILL; CLINICAL TRIAL; FATIGUE; FLUSHING; GLUCOSURIA; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERADRENOCORTICISM; HYPERTENSION; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; INFECTION; IRRITABILITY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MOOD DISORDER; MOON FACE; NAUSEA; OSTEOPENIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SPLENECTOMY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; VOMITING; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; BLOOD PLATELETS; CHILD; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; ISOANTIBODIES; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; SPLENECTOMY;

EID: 26844505063     PISSN: 11745878     EISSN: 11745878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00148581-200507050-00004     Document Type: Review

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