DITP Publications

from University of Oklahoma

1. Systematic reviews, with updates to August 2004, of all English-Language reports of patients with drug-induced thrombocytopenia. The data from these reports is presented in the database of single case reports and group patient reports on this website:

George JN, Raskob GE, Shah SR, Rizvi MA, Hamilton SA, Osborne S, Vondracek T: Drug-induced thrombocytopenia: A systematic review of published case reports. Ann Int Med 129:886-890, 1998. [Full Text]

Rizvi MA, Kojouri K, George JN: Drug-induced thrombocytopenia: an updated systematic review (letter). Ann Int Med 134: 346, 2001. [Full Text]

Hibbard AB, Medina PJ, Vesely SK: Reports of drug-induced thrombocytopenia (letter). Ann Int Med 138: 239, 2003. [Full text]

Li X, Hunt L, Vesely SK. Drug-induced thrombocytopenia: An updated systematic review, 2004. Ann Int Med 142: 474-475, 2005. [Full Text]

Li X, Swisher KK, Vesely SK, George JN: Drug-induced thromboctyopenia: an update systematic review, 2006. Drug Safety 30: 185-185, 2007

2. Quinine-induced thrombocytopenia can be very difficult to diagnose, because patients may assume their doctor is not interested in such a common medicine taken only occasionally. The subject of this report tells his story here in “Calvin’s Story”.

Kojouri K, Perdue JJ, George, JN: Occult quinine-induced thrombocytopenia. J Oklahoma State Med Assoc 93:519-521, 2000.

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