Patterns of platelet response in idiopathic TTP/HUS: Frequency of declining platelet counts with plasma exchange and the recognition and significance of a pseudo refractory state

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 237-241

  Hay, Shauna N ^a   Egan, Jennifer A ^a   Millward, Peter A ^a   Bandarenko, Nicholas ^a   Brecher, Mark E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CB 7600 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Plasma exchange; Platelet count; Pseudo refractory; Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIS; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLASMA VOLUME; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY THROMBOCYTOPENIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PLATELETS; CHILD; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMA EXCHANGE; PLATELET COUNT; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745544360     PISSN: 17449979     EISSN: 17449987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-9987.2006.00368.x     Document Type: Article

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