Management of patients with refractory immune thrombocytopenic purpura
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Management of patients with refractory immune thrombocytopenic purpura.
In immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), thrombocytopenia is a result of both increased platelet destruction and insufficient platelet production. In adults, the course is commonly chronic, but most patients never experience serious bleeding even with severe thrombocytopenia. In case series of consecutive adult patients identified at the time of diagnosis, the frequency of death from bleeding ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1538-7933,1538-7836
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-7836.2006.02013.x