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Immune thrombocytopenia complicating pulmonary tuberculosis: case report and investigation of mechanisms
R J Boots1, A W Roberts, D McEvoy
1Department of Thoracic Medicine, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Herston, Queensland, Australia.
Thorax
|May 1, 1992
Abstract:
Immune thrombocytopenia and pulmonary tuberculosis presented concurrently in a 20 year old Thai man as a bleeding diathesis. Intravenous immunoglobulin rapidly corrected the thrombocytopenia. Immunofluorescence and immunoblot studies with platelets and mycobacteria showed the presence of platelet surface membrane IgG.