Neonatal familial Evans syndrome associated with joint hypermobility and mitral valve regurgitation in three siblings in a Saudi Arab family

Annals of Saudi Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 227-230

  Ahmed, Fathelrahman E ^a   Albakrah, Mohameed S ^a  

^a King Salman Armed Force Hospital   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; COLCHICINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INFLIXIMAB; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; AUTOIMMUNE THROMBOCYTOPENIA; BLEEDING TIME; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHORDA TENDINEA RUPTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; COOMBS POSITIVE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EPISTAXIS; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEART MURMUR; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAVASCULAR HEMOLYSIS; JAUNDICE; JOINT HYPERMOBILITY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; PALLOR; PETECHIA; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; SAUDI ARABIA; SEPSIS; SIBLING; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEREDITARY HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; JOINT INSTABILITY; SYNDROME;

ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, CONGENITAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JOINT INSTABILITY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; SAUDI ARABIA; SIBLINGS; SYNDROME;

EID: 69449092184     PISSN: 02564947     EISSN: 13199226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5144/0256-4947.51784     Document Type: Article

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