%0 Journal Article
%T Unusual hematologic disease affecting Caucasian children traveling to Southeast Asia: acquired platelet dysfunction with eosinophilia
%A Anselm Chi-Wai Lee
%J Hematology Reports
%D 2012
%I PAGEPress Publications
%R 10.4081/hr.2012.e5
%X An 11-year-old American boy was staying with his family in Indonesia. He presented with a 5-month history of recurrent bruises and ecchymosis. A clinical diagnosis of acquired platelet dysfunction with eosinophilia was made when his full blood counts showed hypereosinophilia (7.4กม10 9/L) with normal platelet count and gray platelets under the microscope. The diagnosis was supported by abnormal platelet aggregation tests consistent with a storage pool disorder. The bleeding symptoms and eosinophilia resolved a month later with a full course of antihelminthic therapy. Hematologists should be aware of this unusual disease in travelers returning from the Southeast Asia.
%K acquired platelet dysfunction
%K eosinophilia
%K hemorrhage
%K thrombocytopathy
%U http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/hr/article/view/3497