The spectrum of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura: A clinicopathologic demonstration of tacrolimus-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura in a lung transplant patient

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 744-747

  Go, Orson ^a,b   Naqvi, Asghar ^a   Tan, Alvin ^a   Amzuta, Ioana ^a   Lenox, Robert ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Lung transplant; Tacrolimus; Thrombotic microangiopathy; Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

Indexed keywords

ALENDRONIC ACID; CITALOPRAM; CORTICOSTEROID; CREATININE; CRYOGLOBULIN; CYCLOSPORIN; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FLUDROCORTISONE; GANCICLOVIR; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NOVEL ERYTHROPOIESIS STIMULATING PROTEIN; TACROLIMUS; TRAMADOL; VORICONAZOLE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONFUSION; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROPLASIA; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEMOLYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LETHARGY; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; URINALYSIS; URINARY CAST; VASCULAR DISEASE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC; TACROLIMUS; URINALYSIS;

EID: 62849124401     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e3181792687     Document Type: Article

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