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LUPOID THROMBOCYTOPENIA
Author(s) -
FIRKIN B. G.,
PFUELLER S.,
BUCHANAN R. R. C.,
RYAN P.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0004-8291
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1987.tb01230.x
Subject(s) - medicine , anti nuclear antibody , rheumatism , thrombocytopenic purpura , lupus erythematosus , dermatology , immunology , antibody , autoantibody , platelet
Lupoid thrombocytopenia is herein defined as a disorder in which patients with throm‐bocytopenia have a positive Hep 2 antinuclear antibody. Although these patients may have other clinical or laboratory findings consistent with systemic lupus erythematosus, they do not satisfy the revised diagnostic criteria set down by the American Rheumatism Association (1982). In all other respects they have similar findings to patients with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. Six patients are described with their clinical and laboratory features. It is proposed that this disorder should be distinguished from other forms of autoimmune thrombocytopenia including that associated with systemic lupus erythematosus.