Congenital amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia: Clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment

Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 673-681

  Ballmaier, Matthias ^a   Germeshausen, Manuela ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bone marrow failure; hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; MPL gene; thrombocytopenia; thrombopoietin

Indexed keywords

AMINOCAPROIC ACID; BUSULFAN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FLUDARABINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; THROMBOPOIETIN; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL AMEGAKARYOCYTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIA; CYTOPENIA; GENE MUTATION; GENE THERAPY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE LEUKEMIA VIRUS ONCOGENE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PANCYTOPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANEMIA, APLASTIC; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MUTATION; PANCYTOPENIA; RECEPTORS, THROMBOPOIETIN; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 81755166539     PISSN: 00946176     EISSN: 10989064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1291377     Document Type: Article

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