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Infectious mononucleosis with acute thrombocytopenia
N G Flanagan1, A J Rowlands, M E Sloan
1Department of Haematology, Victoria Hospital, Blackpool, U.K.
The Journal of Infection
|July 1, 1989
Abstract:
Three cases of severe acute thrombocytopenia complicating infectious mononucleosis are described. Although spontaneous remission may be a feature of this rare complication, in each of these cases steroid therapy resulted in a rapid rise in the platelet count.