Treatment and predictors of outcome in dogs with immune-mediated thrombocytopenia

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 238, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 346-352

  O'Marra, Shana K ^a   Delaforcade, Armelle M ^a   Shaw, Scott P ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DOG; DOG DISEASE; FEMALE; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; MALE; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANIMALS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 79951832981     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.238.3.346     Document Type: Article

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