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[Severe autoimmune thrombocytopenia in pregnancy]

A Widmer1, H Brühwiler, M Krause

  • 1Frauenklinik, Thurgauisches Kantonsspital, Münsterlingen.

Zeitschrift Fur Geburtshilfe Und Neonatologie
|December 28, 1999
PubMed

Maternal thrombocytopenia is a frequent finding in pregnancy. The clinically important causes of maternal thrombocytopenia in pregnancy are gestational thrombocytopenia and autoimmune thrombocytopenia. We report a case of refractory idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura by a 30-year-old pregnant woman, gravida 3, para 2, successfully treated with high dose corticosteroids and immune globulins.

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