Population
7 patients with chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)
Design
Case_series
Authors
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May warrant platelet function testing in chronic ITP with bleeding despite adequate counts; leaves open prevalence and causality of arachidonate defects.
Patients with chronic ITP may have superimposed impairment of platelet function and abnormal arachidonate metabolism that exacerbates bleeding tendency even at seemingly safe platelet counts.
Stuart et al. (1981) studied this question.
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