Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura or immune thrombocytopenia in a sickle cell/β+-thalassemia patient: A rare and challenging condition

Transfusion and Apheresis Science

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 175-177

  Vlachaki, Efthymia ^a   Agapidou, Aleka ^a   Neokleous, Nikolaos ^a   Adamidou, Despoina ^a   Vetsiou, Evaggelia ^a   Boura, Panagiota ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

ADAMTS 13; Plasma exchange; Sickle cell; Thrombocytopenia; Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura; thalassemia

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; FOLIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; HYDROXYUREA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; VINCRISTINE;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; AGITATION; ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE THROMBOCYTOPENIA; BONE PAIN; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPISTAXIS; GINGIVA BLEEDING; HEADACHE; HEMATURIA; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MOUTH NUMBNESS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PARESTHESIA; PLASMAPHERESIS; SICKLE CELL BETA THALASSEMIA; SICKLE CELL CRISIS; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; BETA-THALASSEMIA; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; COMPLICATION; FATALITY; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC;

ADULT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; BETA-THALASSEMIA; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC;

EID: 84922625310     PISSN: 14730502     EISSN: 18781683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transci.2014.09.001     Document Type: Article

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