✦ LIBER ✦
Pulmonary fat embolism after prostaglandin infusion in sickle cell disease with fatal outcome despite exchange blood transfusion
✍ Scribed by Bertand Godeau; Jean-François Dhainaut; Dora Bachir; Fredéric Galacteros
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 248 KB
- Volume
- 43
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0361-8609
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✦ Synopsis
We conclude that intravenous immunoglobulin followed by platelet transfusion may serve as a valuable adjunct in the urgent treatment of drug-induced immune thrombocytopenia where progressive, life-threatening thrombocytopenia complicates conventional therapeutic interventions.