Therapeutic plasma exchange plus corticosteroid for the treatment of the thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura: A single institutional experience in the southern Marmara region of Turkey

Transfusion and Apheresis Science

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 109-115

  Ozkalemkas, Fahir ^a   Ali, Ridvan ^a   Ozkocaman, Vildan ^a   Ozcelik, Tulay ^a   Ozkan, Atilla ^a   Tunali, Ahmet ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Corticosteroids; Therapeutic plasma exchange; Treatment outcome; TTP

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CREATININE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMA EXCHANGE; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC; REMISSION INDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TURKEY;

EID: 33847370356     PISSN: 14730502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transci.2006.05.020     Document Type: Article

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