Author/Editor     Bizjak, Mojca; Bruck, Or; Kadunc, Darja; Praprotnik, Sonja; Shoenfeld, Yehuda
Title     Vaccinations and secondary immune thrombocytopenia with antiphospholipid antibodies by human papillomavirus vaccine
Type     članek
Vol. and No.     Letnik 53, št. suppl. 1
Publication year     2016
Volume     str. S48-S50
ISSN     0037-1963 - Seminars in hematology
Language     eng
Abstract     A 13-year-old girl developed immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) and concomitant positive antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) following vaccination with a quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. During the course of a disease, she developed clinical manifestation with bleeding and she was treated with intravenous immunoglobulins. Consequently, the number of her platelets remained critically low and she was put on corticosteroids and rituximab. Since then, her platelet count remain within the normal range, but her aPL are still present.
Keywords     human papillomavirus
vaccine
immune thrombocytopenic purpura
človeški papiloma virus
cepiva
imunska trombocitopenična purpura