Age old dapsone in the treatment of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura - A case report with review

American Journal of Therapeutics

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages e723-e725

  Kundu, Ria ^a   Sethi, Namrata ^a   Ghose, Abhimanyu ^b   Chaudhary, Rekha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dapsone; Idiopathic thrombocytopenia; ITP

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; DANAZOL; DAPSONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RITUXIMAB; STEROID; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; FEMALE; FLUID RETENTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERGLYCEMIA; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEGAKARYOCYTE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SPLENECTOMY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT DURATION; WEIGHT GAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; DAPSONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84904372656     PISSN: 10752765     EISSN: 15363686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MJT.0b013e3182204fbb     Document Type: Review

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