Local experience with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura from the western part of Turkey

Transfusion and Apheresis Science

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 163-169

  Vural, Filiz ^a   Donmez, Ayhan ^a   Çag ̌irgan, Seçkin ^a   Tombulog ̌lu, Murat ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

IVIg; Therapeutic plasma exchange; TTP

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MORTALITY; PLASMAPHERESIS; RELAPSE; REMISSION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; PLASMA EXCHANGE; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TURKEY;

EID: 33645960704     PISSN: 14730502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transci.2005.09.039     Document Type: Article

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