Table of Contents
- Overview
- Symptoms
- Treatment
- Prevention
- Images
TTP ADAMTS13
Symptoms
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Bleeding into the skin or mucus membranes Changes in consciousness Confusion Easy fatigue Fever Headache -
Heart rate over 100 beats per minute Pallor - Purplish spots in the skin produced by small bleeding vessels near the surface of the skin (purpura)
Shortness of breath - Speech changes
Weakness - Yellowish color to the skin (
jaundice )
Signs and tests
- ADAMTS 13 activity level
Bilirubin Blood smear CBC -
Creatinine level - Lactate dehydrogenase (
LDH ) level - Mucus membrane
biopsy Platelet count Urinalysis - Von Willebrand factor electropheresis
Images
Blood cells
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Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura Treatment
Review Date: 02/28/2011
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of
General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington
School of Medicine; and Yi-Bin Chen, MD, Leukemia/Bone Marrow
Transplant Program, Massachusetts General Hospital. Also reviewed
by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
