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Disseminated tuberculosis with immune thrombocytopenic purpura

Tuberculosis has a variety of hematological manifestations. Immune thrombocytopenic purpura is an uncommon manifestation of tuberculosis. We present a case of disseminated tuberculosis with isolated thrombocytopenia. While TB granulomas in the bone marrow can themselves cause hematological abnormali...

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Autores principales: Dagaonkar, Rucha S., Udwadia, Zarir F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3276039/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22345918
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.92367
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description Tuberculosis has a variety of hematological manifestations. Immune thrombocytopenic purpura is an uncommon manifestation of tuberculosis. We present a case of disseminated tuberculosis with isolated thrombocytopenia. While TB granulomas in the bone marrow can themselves cause hematological abnormalities, persistent thrombocytopenia refractory to anti-TB therapy may be ITP associated with TB.
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spelling pubmed-32760392012-02-16 Disseminated tuberculosis with immune thrombocytopenic purpura Dagaonkar, Rucha S. Udwadia, Zarir F. Lung India Case Report Tuberculosis has a variety of hematological manifestations. Immune thrombocytopenic purpura is an uncommon manifestation of tuberculosis. We present a case of disseminated tuberculosis with isolated thrombocytopenia. While TB granulomas in the bone marrow can themselves cause hematological abnormalities, persistent thrombocytopenia refractory to anti-TB therapy may be ITP associated with TB. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3276039/ /pubmed/22345918 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.92367 Text en Copyright: © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Disseminated tuberculosis with immune thrombocytopenic purpura
title_full Disseminated tuberculosis with immune thrombocytopenic purpura
title_fullStr Disseminated tuberculosis with immune thrombocytopenic purpura
title_full_unstemmed Disseminated tuberculosis with immune thrombocytopenic purpura
title_short Disseminated tuberculosis with immune thrombocytopenic purpura
title_sort disseminated tuberculosis with immune thrombocytopenic purpura
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3276039/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22345918
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.92367
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