Subacute (acute, persistent) thrombotic microangiopathy

✍ Scribed by Edwin G. Taft; Bala B. Carver

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 208 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0733-2459
• DOI: 10.1002/jca.2920070404

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Six patients with prolonged acute courses of thrombotic microangiopathy are reviewed. These patients had in common courses of acute disease requiring plasma support for more than 3 months, with subsequent complete remission. Plasma support requirements may be prodigious, and the acute course may require more than 100 plasma exchanges before a stable remission is achieved. These patients appear to represent a subset of thrombotic microangiopathy distinct from the more common acute T.T.P. course, which resolves in 3–6 weeks, and the chronic relapsing pattern, which may have a short or prolonged acute course. © 1992 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.