Masanori Matsumoto, Yoshitaka Miyakawa, Koichi Kokame, Yasunori Ueda, Hideo Wada, Satoshi Higasa, Hideo Yagi, Yoshiyuki Ogawa, Kazuya Sakai, Toshiyuki Miyata, Eriko Morishita, Yoshihiro Fujimura
Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) can rapidly become a life-threatening condition, and the importance of its appropriate diagnosis and treatment cannot be overstated. Until recently, TTP has mainly been diagnosed by clinical findings such as thrombocytopenia and hemolytic anemia. In addition to these clinical findings, however, reduced activity of a disintegrin-like and metalloprotease with thrombospondin type 1 motif 13 (ADAMTS13) below 10% has become internationally accepted as a diagnostic criterion for TTP...
November 2023: International Journal of Hematology