Splenectomy for immune thrombocytopenia : our 11-year experience

Splenectomy has been practiced for the treatment of ITP for the past few decades. Currently it is utilised when a patient is either dependent or resistant to steroid treatment and the platelet count remains less than 30×109/L. Recently new agents have been added to the armamentarium used to treat I...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Antel, Katherine
Other Authors: Novitzky, Nicolas
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14134