Acute thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura following orthopedic surgery: A case report

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 335-338

  Iosifidis, Michael I ^a   Ntavlis, Merkourios ^b   Giannoulis, Ioannis ^a   Malioufas, Leonidas ^a   Ioannou, Antonios ^a   Giantsis, Georgios ^a  

^a Naoussa General Hospital Naoussa   (Greece)

^b Naoussa General Hospital Naoussa   (Greece)

Author keywords

High tibial osteotomy; Postsurgical thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CEPHALOSPORIN; DIPYRIDAMOLE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISOLONE; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LABORATORY TEST; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOTOMY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; SEPTICEMIA; SURGICAL STRESS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; OSTEOTOMY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC; TIBIA;

EID: 33745357692     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-005-0014-4     Document Type: Article

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