mediastinal neoplasms are uncommon tumors that can occur at any age but are most common through the fifth decades of life. a wide variety of systemic disorders are associated with 71% of thymomas. the symptoms of these as sociated disorders often lead to the original discovery of the mediastinal tumor. a 35-year-old female with petechia and purpura was admitted to sina hospital of the city of h...

introduction: the aim of this study was to evaluate the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (nlr), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (plr), and mean platelet volume (mpv) in patients with recurrent aphthous stomatitis (ras).   materials and methods: eighty patients who were diagnosed with ras between january 2014 and january 2016 were included in this study. eighty age- and gender-matched healthy subject...

introduction: homeopathy can be applied to treat various diseases and conditions such as cancer, allergy, mood disorders, headache and pain. this case showed that homeopathic medicine can be a treatment modality for idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (itp), an autoimmune-mediated hematologic disorder. case presentation: the patient was a 5.5–year-old child with itp who referred to the homeopat...

conclusions the authors describe the second reported case of eptifibatide-induced severe thrombocytopenia associated with cardiac surgery. in this case, discontinuation of eptifibatide and transfusion of apheresis platelets increased the platelet count (137 k/ul) the following day, and the patient subsequently underwent successful coronary artery surgery using cardiopulmonary bypass. introducti...

the prevalence of helicobacter pylori infection and the effect of its eradication on platelet count in 95 iranian patients with chronic refractory autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura (critp) was investigated. 69 of 95 patients were infected with h.pylori (72.6%). h.pylori eradication was obtained in 69 infected critp pa tients who were not in remission and had platelet count below 100×109 at th...

background: platelets rapidly lose their qualities usually after 5 day of storage. different standard methods have been recommended to check the quality of platelets during storage which some of them show better correlation with other quality markers during storage. the purpose of this study was to demonstrate if platelet factor 3 (pf3) assay could be an indicator of storage lesion and provide ...