What To Do When You Suspect an Inherited Platelet Disorder

What to do when you suspect an inherited platelet disorder.

Inherited platelet disorders (IPDs) comprise a heterogenous group of diseases that include defects in platelet function and disordered megakaryopoiesis. Some IPDs overlap as both defects in function and thrombopoiesis, resulting in both altered aggregation and/or secretion and thrombocytopenia. This review examines the key features of the presentation of IPDs in children and adults and presents...

PRIMARY IMMUNE DEFICIENCY: When to suspect and what to do

For the last 50 years immune deficiency disorders were thought to be rare occurring in one out of thousands of infants. Indeed in the last 10 years with the development of new genetic techniques more than 100 mutations in various genes were found to be associated with primary immunodeficiencies entities. It should be noted that in some diseases several hundreds of patients were found, while in ...

What do you do when you ’ re the first ?

What do you do when you're the first?

Do you Recommend an Interdisciplinary Field to Your Graduate Student?

Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges for dermatologists: What shall we do when we don’t know what to do?

What shall we do when we have done everything we could for the diagnosis and treatment of a patient, but were not successful? What shall we do when there is no definite treatment for a patient? What shall we do when we have no diagnosis or treatment for a patient? Some useful suggestions are presented here to get rid of these situations.