An Unusual Case of Post-Transfusion Purpura: Good Transient Response to High-Dose Immunoglobulin
- 1 November 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Vox Sanguinis
- Vol. 51 (3) , 182-184
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1423-0410.1986.tb01949.x
Abstract
A 62-year-old woman with an unusually protracted post-transfusion purpura failed to respond to three 3-litre plasma exchanges and prednisolone (50 mg/day) for 10 days but then had a good though transient response to two courses of high-dose immunoglobulin infusions with cessation of bleeding. The subsequent recurrent thrombocytopenia was mild and asymptomatic and only partially controlled by corticosteroids but finally resolved completely after 5 months.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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