%0 Journal Article
%T Immunologic Thrombocytopenic Purpura Associated with Helicobacter Pylori Infection: A Case Report from Senegal
%A Mohamed Keita
%A Mouhamed Dieng
%A Serigne Saliou Mback¨¦
%A Ibrahima Thioune
%A Mouhamadou Sidib¨¦
%A Baidy Sy Kane
%J Open Journal of Blood Diseases
%P 98-102
%@ 2164-3199
%D 2022
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojbd.2022.124010
%X We present a 27-year-old female patient received for epistaxis associated
with gingivorrhagia. In her medical history, she had undergone an oesogastroduodenal fibroscopy one year earlier, which revealed a bulbar ulcer with gastritis. On
admission, she presented with a bleeding syndrome, an anemic syndrome with poor hemodynamic tolerance, and epigastric sensitivity. The blood count
performed in the emergency on the citrate tube showed a bicy-topenia (regenerative anemia + thrombocytopenia).
The HELIKIT test was positive. Thus, the hypothesis of an acute immunological
thrombocytopenic purpura associated with a Helicobacter pylori infection seemed
to us the most probable with a Khellaf hemorrhagic score of 8. She had
benefited from a bolus of methyl prednisone: 15 mg/kg/day for 3 days then relay
per os with prednisone 1 mg/kg/day (and adjuvant treatment); the eradicating
treatment of Helicobacter pylori had been simultaneously started.
%K Immunological Thrombocytopenic Purpura
%K Helicobacter Pylori
%K Corticosteroids
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=121477