## Abstract This report describes objective improvement in two patients with poorly responsive thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) syndromes (with cryosupernatant). The first had a partial response to plasma exchange with whole plasma (fresh frozen plasma; FFP) and responded dramatically when
Effectiveness of the cryosupernatant fraction of plasma in the treatment of refractory thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
โ Scribed by John J. Byrnes; Joel L. Moake; Panpit Klug; Phillip Periman
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 487 KB
- Volume
- 34
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0361-8609
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