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What is TTP sickness?
It is Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura. In this process, blood clots (or thromboses) form in small blood vessels, leading to low platelet counts (thrombocytopenia) in the blood, along with skin manifestations (purpura).
What autoimmune disorder results in destruction of platelets?
idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
What the color of platelets?
the color of platelets is purple. excessive amount of platelets in the blood(thrombocytopenia) may be manifested as purpura(purplish discoloration of the skin)
Is lupus the same as autoimmune thrombocytopenia purpura?
No, but sometimes those problems go together.
What word is use for a disease condition of any blood cell?
blood dyscrasia
Why do thrombocytopenia purpura bruise easily?
Throbocytopenia means 'platelet deficiency'. Purpura means 'of the blood'. A knock or trauma to the skin will cause blood vessels to rupture. As platelets are responsible for clotting, the rupture will bleed for longer, causing larger bruising and allowing bruising to occur more readily. Dibnah.N
Why would the blood platlets drop on a new boorn?
There are several causes for the blood platelets to drop on a newborn baby. A few reasons for the drop in platelets are a bruise, thrombocytopenic purpura, or neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia.
What is the anatomy and physiology of blood dyscrasia?
what are the blood group substances?
What is the general term for blood disordeds?
dyscrasia
Blood is any pathologic conditon of the cellular elements of blood?
blood dyscrasia
Why does an inquiry about idiopathic return a description of thrombocytopenia?
Because the most common syndromatic cause of thrombocyropenia is called ITP, or Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
What is dyscrasia?
any pathologic condition of the cellular elements of the blood.
