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<i>Helicobacter pylori</i> Eradication in Patients with Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura: A Review and the Role of Biogeography
1 Mar 2015
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Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is typically a diagnosis of exclusion, assigned by clinicians after ruling out other identifiable etiologies. Since a report by Gasbarrini et al. in 1998, an accumulating body of evidence has proposed a pathophysiological link between ITP and chronic Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection. Clinical reports have described a spontaneous resolution of ITP symptoms in...
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