Thrombotic thrombocytopaenic purpura and anuria: response to plasma exchange
Richmond, J.M.; d'Apice, A.J.; Whitworth, J.A.; Kincaid-Smith, P.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine 10(1): 48-50
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-8291 PMID: 6929676 Document Number: 162393
This report discusses the treatment and recovery of a 29-year-old woman with thrombotic thrombocytopaenic purpura complicated by servere renal failure. The case is reported because of the rarity of recovery from anuric renal failure in this disease and the probable contribution of plasma exchange to this recovery.