Neurological symptoms as the sole presentation of relapsed thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura without microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 838-840

  Htun, Kay T ^a   Davis, Amanda K ^a  

^a Department of Haematology Alfred Health ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; IRBESARTAN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; RITUXIMAB; VITAMIN D; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR CLEAVING PROTEINASE; ADAM PROTEIN; ADAMTS13 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETO-OCCIPITAL SULCUS; PLASMAPHERESIS; RECURRENCE RISK; REMISSION; RETINAL MIGRAINE; SINUS RHYTHM; STEROID THERAPY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC; BRAIN; COMPLICATION; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC; RADIOGRAPHY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ADAM PROTEINS; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PLASMA EXCHANGE; PLATELET COUNT; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC; RECURRENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84908517913     PISSN: 03406245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1160/TH14-04-0359     Document Type: Letter

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