Transfusion Medicine Reviews
Volume 22, Issue 2 , Pages 103-116, April 2008

The Mechanisms of Action of Intravenous Immunoglobulin and Polyclonal Anti-D Immunoglobulin in the Amelioration of Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura: What Do We Really Know?

  • Andrew R. Crow
    • ,
  • Alan H. Lazarus

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Alan H. Lazarus, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, St Michael's Hospital, Rm 2-001 Shuter Wing, 30 Bond St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5B 1W8.

Canadian Blood Services, Department of Laboratory Medicine of St. Michael's Hospital, the Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, and the Toronto Platelet Immunobiology Group, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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 This work was supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Ottawa, Ontario.

PII: S0887-7963(07)00110-1

doi:10.1016/j.tmrv.2007.12.001

Transfusion Medicine Reviews
Volume 22, Issue 2 , Pages 103-116, April 2008

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