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Severe Hemolysis and Pulmonary Hypertension in a Neonate With Upshaw-Schulman Syndrome.
Pediatrics - 1 Dec 2016
Tsujii Nobuyuki, Shiraishi Isao, Kokame Koichi, Shima Midori, Fujimura Yoshihiro, Takahashi Yukihiro, Matsumoto Masanori
Abstract excerpt
Pulmonary involvement is extremely rare in thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. In this report, we present a girl patient with congenital thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, known as Upshaw-Schulman syndrome (USS), complicated with severe hemolysis and pulmonary hypertension (PH). The assay results of a disintegrin-like and metalloprotease with thrombospondin type 1 motifs 13 (ADAMTS13) activity measured by...
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