Twenty-year mortality of adult patients with primary immune thrombocytopenia: A Danish population-based cohort study

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 260-267

  Frederiksen, Henrik ^a,b   Maegbaek, Merete Lund ^a   Nørgaard, Mette ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Immune thrombocytopenia; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON PERFORATION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DANISH; DENMARK; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; INFECTION; LUNG ABSCESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MORTALITY; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID TUMOR; TREND STUDY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNE THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DENMARK; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; SEX DISTRIBUTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903717928     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: 13652141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bjh.12869     Document Type: Article

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