Severe gastrointestinal haemorrhage responding to recombinant factor VIIa in a Jehovah's Witness with refractory immune thrombocytopenia

Hematol J. 2004;5(3):281-2. doi: 10.1038/sj.thj.6200395.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Blood Coagulation
  • Coagulants / therapeutic use*
  • Cyclophosphamide / therapeutic use
  • Factor VIIa / therapeutic use*
  • Female
  • Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / diagnosis
  • Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / drug therapy*
  • Humans
  • Jehovah's Witnesses
  • Middle Aged
  • Purpura, Thrombocytopenic, Idiopathic / drug therapy
  • Purpura, Thrombocytopenic, Idiopathic / etiology*
  • Recombinant Proteins / therapeutic use
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Coagulants
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Cyclophosphamide
  • Factor VIIa