Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura Essays

  • Informative Speech On Heart Failure

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    If you have heart failure, you are not alone. Currently, approximately 5.7 million people in the United States live with it. In fact, it is one of the most common reasons why people 65 years of age or older admitted to hospital. The development of heart failure can take years. Heart failure is called congestive heart failure when fluids accumulate in various parts of the body. So if you do not already have, but runs the risk of suffering, you should change your lifestyle now! Symptoms of heart failure

  • Thrombocytopenic Purpura Essay

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    Part 1: Overview current literature about Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura The first patient described with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a 16 year old girl that died within 2 weeks after disease onset. She struggled with petechial bleeding, pallor, fever, paralysis, hematuria and coma (Lämmle et al. 2005). From the autopsy in 1924 Doctor E. Moschcowitz described hyaline thrombosis of the terminal arterioles and capillaries and he suspected that a powerful agglutinative and hemolitic

  • Personal Narrative: Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

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    dedication, power, drive, leadership, teamwork, friends, and people to depend on. My job is what I love to do and nothing will stop me from doing it. Not even being diagnosed with Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP). During the spring of sixth grade, I found out I had Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP). This is a sickness in which you have low platelets. Platelets are in you blood and they help your body heal. However, your immune system sees platelets as a virus. It fights them