1. Methylprednisolone-induced immune thrombocytopenia
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Bruno Royer, Ketty Lee, Berengere Gruson, France Roszkiewicz, Abdullatif Al Khedr, Agnes Colson, Agnes Camboulives, Philippe Bierling, and Jean Pierre Marolleau
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Hematology ,business.industry ,medicine.drug_class ,Immunology ,Cell Biology ,medicine.disease ,Biochemistry ,Thrombocytopenic purpura ,Immune thrombocytopenia ,Purpura ,Methylprednisolone ,immune system diseases ,hemic and lymphatic diseases ,Internal medicine ,Medicine ,Corticosteroid ,Platelet ,medicine.symptom ,business ,medicine.drug - Abstract
To the editor: Drug-induced immune thrombocytopenia (DITP) may occur after exposure to many medications and is sometimes indistinguishable from idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP).[1][1]–[3][2] When suspected, the causative drug must be stopped and the platelet count returns to normal in
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- 2010
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