Oral megadose methylprednisolone for childhood acute idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura [letter]
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Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura in childhood.
Purpura is a relatively common symptom in childhood and may be due to a variety of causes. A platelet count enables one to exclude the nonthrombocytopenic variety, but more elaborate investigations are needed to exclude other primary conditions which are often associated with thrombocytopenia, e.g. leukaemia. There remains a group of patients with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura and it is w...
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Prof Şinasi Özsoylu, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Hematology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara 06100 (Turkey) I have read with interest the article by Mazzucconi et al. [1] entitled ‘Danazol Therapy in Refractory Chronic Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura’ in the recent issue of the journal. I would like to bring to the authors’ attention that marked improvement of platelet ...
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4. Özsoylu S, Allahverdi H, Laleli Y, Pirnar A. Platelet survival in childhood idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura in remission. J Pediatr 1976;89:388-390. 5. Özsoylu Ş, Karabent A, Irken G, Tuncer M. Antiplatelet antibody in childhood idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. Am J Hematol 1991;36:82-85. 6. Özsoylu Ş, Ertürk G. Oral megadose methylprednisolone for acute childhood idiopathic thromboc...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Blood
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0006-4971,1528-0020
DOI: 10.1182/blood.v77.8.1856.1856