| Literature DB >> 27418575 |
Tyler M Sharp1, Jorge Muñoz-Jordán1, Janice Perez-Padilla1, Melissa I Bello-Pagán2, Aidsa Rivera1, Daniel M Pastula3, Jorge L Salinas4, Jose H Martínez Mendez5, Mónica Méndez6, Ann M Powers7, Stephen Waterman1, Brenda Rivera-García2.
Abstract
We report two patients that developed severe thrombocytopenia after Zika virus (ZIKV) infection. The first patient had 1000 platelets/μL and died after multiple hemorrhages. The second patient had 2000 platelets/μL, had melena and ecchymoses, and recovered after receiving intravenous immunoglobulin. ZIKV may be associated with immune-mediated severe thrombocytopenia. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2016. This work is written by (a) US Government employee(s) and is in the public domain in the US.Entities:
Keywords: Puerto Rico; Zika virus; fatal; thrombocytopenia
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27418575 PMCID: PMC5176332 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciw476
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Infect Dis ISSN: 1058-4838 Impact factor: 9.079