Normocomplementaemic Urticarial Vasculitis in a 19-Month-Old Girl by Peter Williams

“…Investigations revealed a normal level of haemoglobin, white cells, platelets, and electrolytes. Renal function, international normalised ratio, and activated partial thromboplastin time were all normal. …”
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Cancer Cell Adhesion and Metastasis: Selectins, Integrins, and the Inhibitory Potential of Heparins by Gerd Bendas, Lubor Borsig

“…In addition, direct tumor cell interactions with platelets, leukocytes, and soluble components significantly contribute to cancer cell adhesion, extravasation, and the establishment of metastatic lesions. …”
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Acquired Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia and Pure Red Cell Aplasia in Thymoma by Sumit Dahal, Eliza Sharma, Suyash Dahal, Binav Shrestha, Bikash Bhattarai

“…He was found to have severe normocytic normochromic anemia and thrombocytopenia that did not improve with intravenous steroids or multiple transfusions of red cells and platelets. Subsequent bone marrow biopsy showed severely depleted megakaryocytes and erythroid precursor cells with relative myeloid hyperplasia suggestive of amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia and red cell aplasia. …”
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Blood Cell Profiles of the Tadpoles of the Dubois's Tree Frog, Polypedates teraiensis Dubois, 1986 (Anura: Rhacophoridae) by Madhusmita Das, Pravati Kumari Mahapatra

“…The percentage of lymphocytes and neutrophils showed a negative whereas percentage of eosinophil, basophil, and monocytes showed a positive correlation with the developmental stages of tadpoles. Blood platelets were also observed, which were rounded in shape and found in aggregates.…”
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AM3, an Oral BRM: Protective Agent against Iatrogenic Bone-Marrow and Liver Damage in Breast Cancer Patients under Conventional Adjuvant Radiochemotherapy by Vicente G Villarrubia, Paula Marquez, Jose Cobo, Guillermo J Sada

“…This marrow effect was also manifested in peripheral blood by higher levels of white blood cells, mononuclear cells and platelets in the AM3 treated group. The incidence of thrombocytopenia in patients receiving combined radio-chemotherapy only was 70% compared with 6% observed in patients also receiving AM3 treatment. …”
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A Surgically Treated Case of Ureterovesical Amyloidosis of the Bladder in a Patient with Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia by Sung Han Kim, Weon Seo Park, Jae Young Joung, Kang Hyun Lee, Jinsoo Chung, Ho Kyung Seo

“…Idiopathic thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a bleeding disorder involving the destruction of platelets by the immune system. Systemic amyloidosis is another bleeding disorder involving amyloid deposits that create defects in coagulation and increased prothrombin and thrombin times. …”
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Successful Management of Immune Thrombocytopenia Presenting with Lethal Alveolar Hemorrhage by Keiki Nagaharu, Masahiro Masuya, Keiki Kawakami, Naoyuki Katayama

“…Severe hemorrhage due to ITP is sometimes lethal, and the urgent recovery of platelets is necessary. In addition to conventional therapeutic strategies, romiplostim shows promising efficacy for chronic ITP. …”
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Wound Healing Using Electrical Stimulation: A Review by Farah Jala Jaseem, Jameel Kadhim Abed, Ahmed Rashid Ajel, Noaman Mohammad Noaman

“…The healing of wounds is always attributed to the ability of the affected skin to produce an electric current that helps the migration of stem cells and platelets to the place of extraction For the sake of healing, this is why electrical stimulation ES devices played an important role in the process of stimulation and wound treatment through using the high voltage pulsed current HVPC, low voltage pulsed current LVPC, direct current DC or pulse current PC. …”
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Endothelial-Leukocyte Interaction in Severe Malaria: Beyond the Brain by Mariana C. Souza, Tatiana A. Padua, Maria G. Henriques

“…The most severe and most studied form of malaria is associated with cerebral complications due to capillary congestion and the adhesion of infected erythrocytes, platelets, and leukocytes to brain vasculature. Thus, leukocyte rolling and adhesion in the brain vascular bed during severe malaria is singular and distinct from other models of inflammation. …”
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Overlapping Clinical Manifestations of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children with Other Endemic Diseases of Pakistan: A Case Report by Anam Zafar, Sughra Wahid, Asad Ullah, Hassan Mumtaz

“…Surgical causes were ruled out and managed with fluid protocol of dengue shock syndrome on the basis of falling platelets and fluid leak on ultrasound. But refractory condition and new-onset cardiac dysfunction prompted alternate diagnosis. …”
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Women's Experiences of Preeclampsia: Australian Action on Preeclampsia Survey of Women and Their Confidants by C. East, K. Conway, W. Pollock, N. Frawley, S. Brennecke

“…Respondents reported experiencing pre-eclampsia (n=53), eclampsia (n=5), and/or Hemolysis, Elevated Liver enzymes, and Low Platelets (HELLP syndrome) (n=26). Many women had no knowledge of PE prior to diagnosis (77%) and, once diagnosed, did not appreciate how serious or life threatening it was (50%). …”
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Case report of familial hypercholesterolemia with internal carotid neck swelling by Sudesh Kumar, Prajna Ray, Ranita Sahana

“…Then USG neck and Color Doppler showed reduced diastolic flow of left ICA and type two plaques and type 111 plaque in Rt common carotid artery. Anti-platelets was added and referred to cardiologist for coronary angiography which showed LAD – proximal mid distal diffuse plaque, LCX- proximal eccentric plaque. …”
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Recurrent pregnancy loss: etiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment by Zlatko Kirovakov, Elitsa H. Gyokova, Nadezhda H. Hinkova, Emiliana I. Konova

“…In relation to pathophysiological processes associated with the condition, the findings showed that different etiological factors affect different gestational processes, such as alteration of the structural and nanomechanical abnormalities of the platelets and disruption of the ANXA5 protective shield that prevents adverse pregnancy outcomes. …”
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Prostanoid Receptors in the Human Vascular Wall by Xavier Norel

“…These receptors are also present on leukocytes and platelets, and they are implicated in most of the inflammatory processes within the vascular wall. …”
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Remission of Severe, Relapsed, and Refractory TTP after Multiple Cycles of Bortezomib by Manu R. Pandey, Pankit Vachhani, Evelena P. Ontiveros

“…Uncleaved von Willebrand factor (VWF) multimers accumulate and bind to platelets which causes spontaneous microthrombi ultimately causing microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and end-organ ischemia. …”
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An Unusual Presentation of Pseudothrombotic Microangiopathy in a Patient with Autoimmune Atrophic Gastritis by Alexandre Malek, Roy Nasnas

“…Laboratory tests revealed high LDH and low hemoglobin, white blood cells, platelets, and haptoglobin. The peripheral blood smear showed schistocytes suggestive of pseudothrombotic microangiopathy. …”
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Probable Linezolid-Induced Pancytopenia by Nita Lakhani, William Thompson, Anne Marie Bombassaro

“…On day 26, he was admitted to hospital with acute renal failure secondary to dehydration, and was found to be pancytopenic (erythrocytes 2.5x1012/L, leukocytes 2.9x109/L, platelets 59x109/L, hemoglobin 71 g/L). The patient was transfused, and linezolid was discontinued. …”
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Graphene nanoplatelets in titanium coatings deposited by cold spray: Mechanical properties by Edwin Torres Díaz, Alessio Silvello, Edwin Rúa Ramirez, Rodolpho Fernando Vaz, Irene García Cano

“…Nano-platelets Graphene (GNPs) have emerged as a promising reinforcement for Ti coatings due to their exceptional mechanical and tribological properties. …”
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Impact of Thrombopoietin Receptor Agonists on Pathophysiology of Pediatric Immune Thrombocytopenia by Paschalis Evangelidis, Konstantinos Tragiannidis, Eleni Gavriilaki, Athanasios Tragiannidis

“…Various pathophysiological mechanisms are implicated in ITP pathogenesis, including the production of autoantibodies against components of platelets (PLTs) by B-cells, the activation of the complement system, phagocytosis by macrophages mediated by Fcγ receptors, the dysregulation of T cells, and reduced bone marrow megakaryopoiesis. …”
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Impact of hyper- and hypothermia on cellular and whole-body physiology by Toshiaki Iba, Yutaka Kondo, Cheryl L. Maier, Julie Helms, Ricard Ferrer, Jerrold H. Levy

“…Blood cells, particularly granulocytes and platelets, are highly sensitive to heat, which promotes proinflammatory and procoagulant changes. …”
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