Elevated red cell distribution width in the diagnosis of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura in patients presenting with anemia and thrombocytopenia

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 257-259

  Nagajothi, Nagaprasad ^a   Braverman, Albert ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Red cell distribution width; Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMERGENCY PATIENT; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; HUMAN; PLASMAPHERESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; BLOOD; CELL SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; PATHOLOGY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

HEMOGLOBIN;

ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC; CELL SIZE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; PLATELET COUNT; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 34247563860     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.smj.0000257403.04625.36     Document Type: Article

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