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Case Reports
. 2020 Dec;42(6):e260-e262.
doi: 10.1111/ijlh.13303. Epub 2020 Aug 12.

COVID-19 patient with immune thrombocytopenic purpura

Tariq Kewan  1 , Farah Almhana  2 , Larisa Schwartzman  3 , Hamed Daw  4 , Abdo Haddad  5
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Case Reports

COVID-19 patient with immune thrombocytopenic purpura

Tariq Kewan et al. Int J Lab Hematol. 2020 Dec.
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The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Changes in platelet count level during admission. Day 1 (baseline) represents the day of admission. Red arrow indicates the date of treatment initiation with dexamethasone and intravenous immunoglobulins
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