Table 1.

Summary of demographic and clinical picture of patients with thrombocytopenia associated with M. pneumonia infection [3–9]

Case	Source	Age (Year) Sex	Presentation	Lowest Plts [× 103/µl] Time (days)	Later complications	Evidence for mycoplasma	Treatment	Time to anti-mycoplasma treatment (days)	Time to Plts > 150 [× 103/µl]
1	Current case 1	7 Female	Fever, cough, pneumonia, petechiae and purpura	1.2 1	Hemoptysis	IgM + total anti-mycoplasma 1:64	IVIG, prednisolone, clarythromycin	1	2 months
2	Tsai et al. [9].	0.7 Female	Cough, shortness of breath and fever, pneumonia, petechiae	14 admission	None	CFT 1:4; cold agglutinin 1:128	Prednisolone, minocycline	On admission	14 days
3	Miller et al. [3].	44 Male	Fever, cough, pneumonia, hematuria, behavioral changes	7 admission	Apnea, brain stem hemorrhage, obstructive hydrocephalus; death on day 14	CFT 1:4 to 1:32; cold agglutinin 1:128	Erythromycin, cefotaxime, amikacin, methylprednisole	On admission	Never
4	Veenhoven et al. [6].	17 Male	Headache, 12 days fever, cough, dyspnea, pneumonia, petechiae	25 admission	None	CFT 1:64; IgM + cold agglutinin 32–256	Prednisolone, erythromycin	On admission	3 months
5	Beattie [4]	4 Male	Cough, fever, pneumonia	4 1	Purpura, epistaxis, hematuria	IgM 80–320	IVIG	Not specified	42 × 103/µl on day 5
6	Pugliese et al. [8].	7 Male	Spiking fevers, shaking chills, muscle weakness, sinusitis	<18 1	Headache, vomiting, diarrhea	ELISA 1.01; cold agglutinin 1:64	Ceftriaxone switched to erythromycin, prednisone	Between days 2–4	14 days
7	Isoyama et al. [5].	8 Male	Rhinorrhea, cough, epistaxis, petechiae and hematoma on skin and mucous membranes	2 admission	Epistaxis, bloody stool, hematuria	ELISA 4 to >1.5; 3 positive cultures	Prednisone; IVIG	On admission	14 days
8	Venkatesan et al. [7].	21 Male	Cough, fever, pneumonia, purpuric rash, bleeding gums, hemoptysis, macroscopic hematuria, bloody stools	1 1	Intracranial haemorrhage; death on day 2	CFT 1:8000; total anti-mycoplasma 1:5120	Cefotaxim, methylprednisolon erythromycin	1	Never