Single dose of anti-D immune globulin at 75μg/kg is as effective as intravenous immune globulin at rapidly raising the platelet count in newly diagnosed immune thrombocytopenic purpura in children
From the Comprehensive Bleeding Disorders Center, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria, Illinois; Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Orange, California; University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky; Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Received 21 April 2005; received in revised form 25 October 2005; accepted 3 November 2005.
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PII: S0022-3476(05)01089-9
doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2005.11.019
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