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Familial primary biliary cirrhosis and autoimmune thrombocytopenia
E A Chalmers1, D Chan Lam, R J Holden
1Department of Haematology, Monklands District General Hospital, Airdrie, Lanarkshire.
Scottish Medical Journal
|October 1, 1987
Abstract:
Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is described in two sisters, one of whom presented with autoimmune thrombocytopenia. Taken together with reports of platelet autoantibodies in PBC this case may indicate a place for immunosuppressive agents in the treatment of thrombocytopenia in PBC.