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Query: UMLS:C0184567 (
acute pain
)
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We report a patient with hemoglobin sickle cell-hemoglobin C disease who developed the clinical syndrome of thrombotic
thrombocytopenic purpura
(
TTP
) during admission for typical
acute pain
crisis. The potential for multiorgan involvement secondary to vaso-occlusive crisis complicated the diagnosis and overlapped with the patient's clinical presentation of chronic bone pain and hemolytic anemia. Clinical improvement and normalization of laboratory parameters followed rapidly in response to plasma exchange therapy.
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PMID:Life-threatening thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) in a patient with sickle cell-hemoglobin C disease. 1292 61
