Systemic lupus erythematosus - Associated acute severe thrombocytopenia and leukopenia first presented in pregnancy

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 540-543

  Daskalakis, G ^a,b   Papantoniou, N ^a   Marinopoulos, S ^a   Vomvolaki, E ^a   Papageorgiou, I ^a   Mesogitis, S ^a   Antsaklis, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Leukopenia; Pregnancy; Systemic lupus erythematosus; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOPENIA; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; LEUKOPENIA; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27644545370     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000088047     Document Type: Article

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