Dapsone for immune thrombocytopenic purpura in children and adults

Platelets

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 164-167

  Patel, Ashwin P ^a   Patil, Amit S ^b  

^a Gujarat Research and Medical Institute   (India)

^b Narayan Complex   (India)

Author keywords

Dapsone; Immune thrombocytopenic purpura; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; DANAZOL; DAPSONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG COST; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; HEMOGLOBINURIA; HEMOLYSIS; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; MALE; METHEMOGLOBINURIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RELAPSE; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPLENECTOMY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; BLOOD; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DAPSONE; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922772199     PISSN: 09537104     EISSN: 13691635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09537104.2014.886677     Document Type: Article

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