Spontaneous remission after a year of romiplostim in an adult patient with refractory primary immune thrombocytopenia

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 91, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1497-1498

  Perera, Maria ^a   Suarez, Alexia ^a   Luzardo, Hugo ^a   Lopez, Jezabel ^a   Molero, Teresa ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GRAN CANARIA DR NEGRÍN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; ROMIPLOSTIM;

ADULT; ANEMIA; BLEEDING; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BONE PAIN; CASE REPORT; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; MALE; ORAL BLEEDING; PETECHIA; PRIMARY IMMUNE THROMBOCYTOPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SKIN BLEEDING; THORAX PAIN; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, MURINE-DERIVED; ANTICOAGULANTS; ASPIRIN; DRUG RESISTANCE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDNISONE; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; RECEPTORS, FC; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; STENTS; THROMBOPOIESIS; THROMBOPOIETIN; TICLOPIDINE;

EID: 84864917486     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: 14320584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-012-1437-y     Document Type: Letter

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