Successful management of a Jehovah's Witness with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura unwilling to be treated with therapeutic plasma exchange

✍ Scribed by Vrushali Dabak; Philip Kuriakose; Sundara Raman

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 113 KB
• Volume: 22
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0733-2459
• DOI: 10.1002/jca.20150

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a life‐threatening disease treated successfully with plasma exchange. Jehovah's Witnesses whose religious beliefs preclude them from accepting plasma exchange may require alternative forms of therapy. We report a case of one such patient who presented with TTP, whom we successfully managed with vincristine and responded favorably without the need for plasma exchange. J. Clin. Apheresis, 2007. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.