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Sepsis: thrombocytopenia is bad, not recovering thrombocytopenia is too bad

Authors: W Faviere, T Boechat

Published in: Critical Care | Special Issue 1/2011

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Thrombocytopenia is a prognostic marker in the critically ill population [1], affecting, indistinctly, patients presenting low platelet count on admission or developing it during their stay in the ICU. It has been shown that a drop in platelet count to ≤50% of admission is associated with high death rates [2]. We aimed to observe the outcome of thrombocytopenic septic patients in our ICU. …

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De Weerdt A, et al.: A prospective study of thrombocytopenia and prognosis in intensive care. Crit Care 1999,3(Suppl 1):P236.PubMedCentralCrossRef

Title: Sepsis: thrombocytopenia is bad, not recovering thrombocytopenia is too bad
Authors: W Faviere
T Boechat
Publication date: 01-02-2011
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Critical Care / Issue Special Issue 1/2011
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/cc9860

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