Severe thrombocytopenia in tetralogy of Fallot patients: A contraindication for corrective surgery?

A 3-year-old boy with tetralogy of Fallot and recurrent cyanotic spells was found to have severe thrombocytopenia with platelet counts in the range of 11–30,000/mm(3). There was a hesitation to operate in view of the high bleeding risk due to profound thrombocytopenia. However, the total correction...

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Autores principales: Patil, Suraj, Relan, Jay, Hote, Milind, Kothari, Shyam Sunder
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6716327/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31516289
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/apc.APC_71_18
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Relan, Jay
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description A 3-year-old boy with tetralogy of Fallot and recurrent cyanotic spells was found to have severe thrombocytopenia with platelet counts in the range of 11–30,000/mm(3). There was a hesitation to operate in view of the high bleeding risk due to profound thrombocytopenia. However, the total correction was done after excluding other causes of thrombocytopenia. His platelet count dramatically improved after the operation.
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spelling pubmed-67163272019-09-12 Severe thrombocytopenia in tetralogy of Fallot patients: A contraindication for corrective surgery? Patil, Suraj Relan, Jay Hote, Milind Kothari, Shyam Sunder Ann Pediatr Cardiol Case Report A 3-year-old boy with tetralogy of Fallot and recurrent cyanotic spells was found to have severe thrombocytopenia with platelet counts in the range of 11–30,000/mm(3). There was a hesitation to operate in view of the high bleeding risk due to profound thrombocytopenia. However, the total correction was done after excluding other causes of thrombocytopenia. His platelet count dramatically improved after the operation. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6716327/ /pubmed/31516289 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/apc.APC_71_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Annals of Pediatric Cardiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title Severe thrombocytopenia in tetralogy of Fallot patients: A contraindication for corrective surgery?
title_full Severe thrombocytopenia in tetralogy of Fallot patients: A contraindication for corrective surgery?
title_fullStr Severe thrombocytopenia in tetralogy of Fallot patients: A contraindication for corrective surgery?
title_full_unstemmed Severe thrombocytopenia in tetralogy of Fallot patients: A contraindication for corrective surgery?
title_short Severe thrombocytopenia in tetralogy of Fallot patients: A contraindication for corrective surgery?
title_sort severe thrombocytopenia in tetralogy of fallot patients: a contraindication for corrective surgery?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6716327/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/apc.APC_71_18
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