Plasma exchange for treatment of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura in critically ill patients

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 44-50

  Knobl P ^a,b   Rintelen, C ^a   Kornek, G ^a   Wiltschke, C ^a   Kalhs, P ^a   Schwarzinger, I ^b   Globits, S ^a   Staudinger, T ^a   Laczika, K ^a   Kyrle, P ^b   Frass, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Critical illness; Hemolytic uremic syndrome; Intensive Care Unit; Plasma exchange; Thrombotic microangiopathy; Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLEEDING TENDENCY; BLOOD CLOTTING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PLASMA; PLASMAPHERESIS; RELAPSE; RESUSCITATION; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; SEIZURE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; PLASMA EXCHANGE; PREDNISONE; PREGNANCY; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC; REMISSION INDUCTION; RISK FACTORS; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 8044255851     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001340050289     Document Type: Article

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