NDT Advance Access originally published online on January 18, 2006
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2006 21(6):1734-1735; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfk091
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Letter
Fatal relapse of thrombotic thrombocytopaenic purpura after cardiac surgery in patient with congenital absence of vWF-cleaving protease activity
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Sir,
Thrombotic thrombocytopaenic purpura (TTP) is a relatively rare disorder, commonly described with the pentad of thrombocytopaenia, microangiopatic haemolytic anaemia, mental status deterioration, renal failure and fever. Although it is well known that virtually every organ may be affected by TTP, cardiac involvement is rarely reported in the TTP literature [16]. With the present case we would like to highlight two significant and neglected problems in patients with TTP: cardiac involvement
Clinical hospital Zagreb Department of dialysis Zagreb Croatia (Hrvatska)