Can thrombelastography be a new tool to assess bleeding risk in patients with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura?

Platelets

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 516-520

  Gunduz, Eren ^a   Akay, Olga Meltem ^a   Bal, Cengiz ^a   Gulbas, Zafer ^b  

^a OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bleeding; Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura; Platelet count; Thrombelastography

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; DANAZOL; FIBRINOGEN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; RITUXIMAB;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD CLOTTING TIME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; MALE; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SPLENECTOMY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT; PROGNOSIS; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; THROMBELASTOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053635606     PISSN: 09537104     EISSN: 13691635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09537104.2011.571317     Document Type: Article

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