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. 1992 May;47(5):396–397. doi: 10.1136/thx.47.5.396

Immune thrombocytopenia complicating pulmonary tuberculosis: case report and investigation of mechanisms.

R J Boots 1, A W Roberts 1, D McEvoy 1
PMCID: PMC463768  PMID: 1609387

Abstract

Immune thrombocytopenia and pulmonary tuberculosis presented concurrently in a 20 year old Thai man as a bleeding diathesis. Intravenous immunoglobulin rapidly corrected the thrombocytopenia. Immunofluorescence and immunoblot studies with platelets and mycobacteria showed the presence of platelet surface membrane IgG.

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