Intravenous immunoglobulin as an adjunct to plasma exchange for the treatment of chronic thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

Vox Sanguinis

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 173-175

  Moore, J C ^a,b   Arnold, D M ^a   Leber, B F ^a   Clare, R ^a   Molnar, G J ^a   Kelton, J G ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

ADAMTS13; IVIG; TPE; TTP

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR CLEAVING PROTEINASE ANTIBODY;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SPLENECTOMY; STROKE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA;

ADAM PROTEINS; AGED; AUTOANTIBODIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; PLASMA EXCHANGE; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC; RECURRENCE; REMISSION INDUCTION;

EID: 34547746804     PISSN: 00429007     EISSN: 14230410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1423-0410.2007.00939.x     Document Type: Article

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