Ischemic stroke in the setting of chronic immune thrombocytopenia in an elderly patient-a therapeutic dilemma

Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 324-326

  Peña, Anna De La ^a   Fareed, Jawed ^a   Thethi, Indermohan ^b   Morales Vidal, Sarkis ^a   Schneck, Michael J ^a   Shafer, Danielle ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Aurora Memorial Hospital of Burlington   (United States)

Author keywords

anticoagulants; stroke; thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; FUROSEMIDE; LISINOPRIL; NIFEDIPINE; PANTOPRAZOLE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE THROMBOCYTOPENIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; HUMANS; MALE; PLATELET COUNT; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; STROKE;

EID: 84860747487     PISSN: 10760296     EISSN: 19382723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1076029611425380     Document Type: Article

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