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Acute on Chronic Immune Thrombocytopenia as a Cause of Thrombocytopenia in Sepsis

Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a diagnosis of exclusion and can be challenging at times to make the diagnosis. We herein present a case of a 73-year-old male with a history of chronic ITP, who presented to the hospital with sepsis and developed thrombocytopenia. His thrombocytopenia did not improv...

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Autores principales: Kudaravalli, Pujitha, Pendela, Venkata Satish, Gambhir, Harvir Singh S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7296882/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32550083
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8168