CMV-related thrombocytopenia treated with foscarnet: A case series and review of the literature

Platelets

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 490-495

  Yaari, Shaul ^a   Koslowsky, Benjamin ^a   Wolf, Dana ^b   Chajek Shaul, Tova ^a   Hershcovici, Tiberiu ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

CMV; Foscarnet; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

AMLODIPINE; ATENOLOL; ATORVASTATIN; FOSCARNET; GANCICLOVIR; HYDROCORTISONE; LOSARTAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERADICATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIS; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SPLENECTOMY;

ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOSCARNET; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 77955883076     PISSN: 09537104     EISSN: 13691635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09537104.2010.485659     Document Type: Article

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