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Case Reports
. 2022 Jan;69(1):e29326.
doi: 10.1002/pbc.29326. Epub 2021 Sep 7.

Immune thrombocytopenia in a child with COVID-19: Is it the calm after the (cytokine) storm?

Giulia Ceglie  1   2 , Maria Antonietta De Ioris  1 , Stefania Mercadante  3   4 , Nicole Olivini  3 , Francesca Del Bufalo  1 , Silvio Marchesani  3   4 , Francesca Cocca  1 , Emanuela Monteferrario  1 , Emilia Boccieri  1 , Jolanda Pianese  1 , Giuseppe Palumbo  1   4
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Immune thrombocytopenia in a child with COVID-19: Is it the calm after the (cytokine) storm?

Giulia Ceglie et al. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2022 Jan.
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The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. The authors have no conflict of interest to disclose.

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FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
Visual representation of the overlapping profiles of these different clinical scenarios. The analytes found with a high concentration in our patient are underlined. In particular, a common pathway of specific Th1 cytokines (IL‐1β, IL‐6, TNF‐alpha) and chemokines (IL‐8, MCP‐1) related to the pathogenesis of these diseases was found. MIS‐C, multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, ; ITP, immune thrombocytopenia, ; sHLH, secondary haemophagocytic lympho‐histiocytosis,
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