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thrombocytopenic purpura

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thrombocytopenic purpura [¦thräm·bō¦sīd·ō¦pē·nik ′pər·pə·rə]
(medicine)
Hemorrhages in the skin, mucous membranes, and elsewhere associated with a decreased number of thrombocytes per unit volume of blood.


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People with a condition called immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) make antibodies that destroy platelets, which are required for blood to clot.
He died at Midway Hospital in Los Angeles of complications from thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, the cause of which is unknown.
Bernton will be responsible for directing the activities of an expanded team of experts whose primary focus will be to file an IND application for Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) and to update the active IND in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA).
 
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