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Severe bleeding symptoms in refractory idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura: a case successfully treated with
Mauro Todisco1, Piergiorgio Casaccia, Nazzareno Rossi
1Local Health Department of National Health Service, Fermo, Italy. todmau@tin.it
American Journal of Therapeutics
|March 12, 2003
Abstract:
The prognosis of patients with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura refractory to corticosteroids and splenectomy (refractory ITP) is poor; these patients present high morbidity from disease and its treatment and have a mortality rate of approximately 16%. A patient is reported with severe bleeding symptoms related to refractory ITP successfully treated with melatonin.