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After a myocardial infarction, the use of aspirin and clopidogrel is recommended, but many patients in this conditions also need a vitamin-K antagonist. But these drugs together cause an increase in hemorrhagic risk, even severe, and they consequently increase overall morbidity and mortality. In [...]
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Systemic amyloidosis occurs in two main variations: AL (primary amyloidosis, associated with the presence of a monoclonal variation of plasmacells) and AA (amyloidosis secondary to chronic inflammatory diseases). Some English researchers belonging to the National Amyloidosis Centre have described [...]
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Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are a group of marrow diseases including refractory anemia, refractory anemia with ring sideroblast and refractory anemia with excessive blast. There can be leucopenia or thrombocytopenia, beside the usual anemia, which can possibly turn into acute leukemias. In this [...]
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Even if cases of vancomycin-induced thrombocytopenia have been reported, it is not clear yet which is the mechanism at the basis of this association. Now, antibodies G and M have been studied in 29 patients with anamnesis suggesting vancomycin-induced thrombocytopenia (these antibodies were neither [...]