Penicillamine Therapy in Systemic Sclerosis
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Progressive systemic sclerosis complicated with immune thrombocytopenia during D-penicillamine therapy.
Immune thrombocytopenia is a rare complication of progressive systemic sclerosis (PSS). A 47-year-old female with PSS treated with D-penicillamine developed immune thrombocytopenia, which promptly responded to prednisolone and withdrawal of D-penicillamine. Platelet-associated IgG was elevated and the bone marrow megakaryocyte count was normal. There was an inverse relationship between the leve...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1977
ISSN: 0035-9157
DOI: 10.1177/00359157770700s327