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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
The mainstay of treatment for TTP is medical therapy. Surgery is usually reserved for patients with either no cure with plasma treatments and medicines. | |||
The mainstay of treatment for | |||
==Indications== | ==Indications== | ||
*Surgery is not the first-line treatment option for patients withTTP when plasma treatments and medicines do not cure TTP, surgury is needed.<ref name="pmid11604563">{{cite journal |vauthors=Medina PJ, Sipols JM, George JN |title=Drug-associated thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura-hemolytic uremic syndrome |journal=Curr. Opin. Hematol. |volume=8 |issue=5 |pages=286–93 |date=September 2001 |pmid=11604563 |doi= |url=}}</ref> | |||
*Surgery is not the first-line treatment option for patients | |||
==Surgery== | ==Surgery== | ||
*Surgery is not the first-line treatment option for patients withTTP. Sometimes spelenectomy is needed, because the antibodies is made by cell in spleen that block ADAMTS13 enzyme activity. | |||
*Surgery is the | |||
==Contraindications== | ==Contraindications== | ||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief:
Overview
The mainstay of treatment for TTP is medical therapy. Surgery is usually reserved for patients with either no cure with plasma treatments and medicines.
Indications
- Surgery is not the first-line treatment option for patients withTTP when plasma treatments and medicines do not cure TTP, surgury is needed.[1]
Surgery
- Surgery is not the first-line treatment option for patients withTTP. Sometimes spelenectomy is needed, because the antibodies is made by cell in spleen that block ADAMTS13 enzyme activity.