Post‐transfusion purpura due to HPA‐1a immunization in a male patient: response to subsequent multiple HPA‐1a‐incompatible red‐cell transfusions
- 28 June 1995
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Transfusion Medicine
- Vol. 5 (2) , 131-134
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3148.1995.tb00200.x
Abstract
We report a male patient who developed post-transfusion purpura. Thrombocytopenia did not recur when intravenous IgG was given before the transfusion of platelet-depleted washed red-cell concentrates.Keywords
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