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Immune Thrombocytopenia in Tuberculosis: Causal or Coincidental?

Immune thrombocytopenia is a relatively rare hematological manifestation in tuberculosis. We report two cases of immune thrombocytopemia, one in sputum positive pulmonary tuberculosis and the other in miliary tuberculosis. Antituberculous drugs and immunosuppressive therapy corrected the thrombocyto...

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Autores principales: Srividya, Gopalakrishnan, Nikhila, Gopalakrishna Pillai Syamala, Kaushik, Adusumilli Venkatakrishna, Jayachandran, Kuppusamy
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4147424/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25191056
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.138512
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author Srividya, Gopalakrishnan
Nikhila, Gopalakrishna Pillai Syamala
Kaushik, Adusumilli Venkatakrishna
Jayachandran, Kuppusamy
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description Immune thrombocytopenia is a relatively rare hematological manifestation in tuberculosis. We report two cases of immune thrombocytopemia, one in sputum positive pulmonary tuberculosis and the other in miliary tuberculosis. Antituberculous drugs and immunosuppressive therapy corrected the thrombocytopenia in both patients. Our case reports stress that tuberculosis should be considered during the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia, and also highlights the safety of immunosuppressive therapy during active tuberculosis along with antituberculous drugs.
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spelling pubmed-41474242014-09-04 Immune Thrombocytopenia in Tuberculosis: Causal or Coincidental? Srividya, Gopalakrishnan Nikhila, Gopalakrishna Pillai Syamala Kaushik, Adusumilli Venkatakrishna Jayachandran, Kuppusamy J Glob Infect Dis Case Report Immune thrombocytopenia is a relatively rare hematological manifestation in tuberculosis. We report two cases of immune thrombocytopemia, one in sputum positive pulmonary tuberculosis and the other in miliary tuberculosis. Antituberculous drugs and immunosuppressive therapy corrected the thrombocytopenia in both patients. Our case reports stress that tuberculosis should be considered during the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia, and also highlights the safety of immunosuppressive therapy during active tuberculosis along with antituberculous drugs. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4147424/ /pubmed/25191056 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.138512 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Global Infectious Diseases 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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Jayachandran, Kuppusamy
Immune Thrombocytopenia in Tuberculosis: Causal or Coincidental?
title Immune Thrombocytopenia in Tuberculosis: Causal or Coincidental?
title_full Immune Thrombocytopenia in Tuberculosis: Causal or Coincidental?
title_fullStr Immune Thrombocytopenia in Tuberculosis: Causal or Coincidental?
title_full_unstemmed Immune Thrombocytopenia in Tuberculosis: Causal or Coincidental?
title_short Immune Thrombocytopenia in Tuberculosis: Causal or Coincidental?
title_sort immune thrombocytopenia in tuberculosis: causal or coincidental?
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4147424/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25191056
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