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    Giant platelet disorders, also known as macrothrombocytopenia, are rare disorders featuring abnormally large platelets, thrombocytopenia and a tendency...
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    thrombocytopenia Gray platelet syndrome (associated with giant platelet disorder) Harris platelet syndrome (associated with giant platelet disorder) Macrothrombocytopenia...
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    Bernard–Soulier syndrome (category Autosomal recessive disorders)
    North America, and Japan. BSS is a giant platelet disorder, meaning that it is characterized by abnormally large platelets. Bernard–Soulier syndrome often...
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  • Harris platelet syndrome, previously known as asymptomatic constitutional macrothrombocytopenia, is the most common inherited giant platelet disorder in the...
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    Gray platelet syndrome (GPS), or platelet alpha-granule deficiency, is a rare congenital autosomal recessive bleeding disorder caused by a reduction or...
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    present in platelets, monocytes, and lymphocytes, or how giant platelets are formed. MYH9 is also found to be responsible for several related disorders with...
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  • syndrome Geschwind syndrome Gianotti–Crosti syndrome Giant platelet disorder Guillain–Barré syndrome Gillespie syndrome Gitelman syndrome Gleich's...
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  • initials related to diseases (infectious or non-infectious) and medical disorders. Acronyms in healthcare List of medical abbreviations: Overview List of...
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    associated with Bernard–Soulier syndrome, velocardiofacial syndrome and giant platelet disorder. The 206 amino acid precursor of GPIb beta is synthesized from...
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  • PMID 12463604. S2CID 31865312. Jantunen E (October 1994). "Inherited giant platelet disorders". Eur. J. Haematol. 53 (4): 191–6. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0609.1994...
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    immune thrombocytopenia, is an autoimmune primary disorder of hemostasis characterized by a low platelet count in the absence of other causes. ITP often...
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    Giant cell arteritis (GCA), also called temporal arteritis, is an inflammatory autoimmune disease of large blood vessels. Symptoms may include headache...
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    reach the size of an erythrocytes. This large platelet size can be compared with MYH9 disorders where platelet size can vary between 4.5 um and the 6.6 um...
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    which happens after the initial platelet aggregation but before the formation of fibrin and stable aggregated platelet products. Common anticoagulants...
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    to manage. In this article, the term temporomandibular disorder is taken to mean any disorder that affects the temporomandibular joint, and temporomandibular...
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  • Transient myeloproliferative disease (category Congenital disorders)
    circulating platelets (i.e. thrombocytopenia), anemia due to reduced production of red blood cells, and/or other signs or symptoms of the disorder. However...
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  • Giant hypertrophic gastritis Giant mammary hamartoma Giant papillary conjunctivitis Giant pigmented hairy nevus Giant platelet syndrome Giardiasis Gibson's...
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  • various races. Typically, the disorder presents with fever, decreased numbers of circulating white blood cells and/or platelets, enlarged liver and/or spleen...
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    Chédiak–Higashi syndrome (category Autosomal recessive disorders)
    serotonin and adenosine-phosphate-containing granules in platelets causes impaired platelet aggregation, leading to prolonged bleeding time. Thus, patients...
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    histamine, which then leads to the release of cytokines, prostaglandins, and platelet-activating factor. Mast cell intermediaries cause an allergic inflammation...
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  • P. S.; Feldman, B. F.; et al. (2005). "Platelets: Overview, Morphology, Quantity, Platelet Function Disorders (Thrombocytopathia or Thrombopathia)". A...
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    syndromic or phenotypic diarrhea, is an extremely rare congenital bowel disorder which manifests itself as intractable diarrhea in infants with intrauterine...
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  • and topical guide to cardiology, the branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the human heart. The field includes medical diagnosis and treatment...
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    own cells, affect a range of organs and systems within the body. Each disorder is listed with the primary organ or body part that it affects and the associated...
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    Lupus (category Disorders causing seizures)
    Blood—hematologic disorder—hemolytic anemia (low red blood cell count), leukopenia (white blood cell count<4000/μL), lymphopenia (<1500/μL), or low platelet count...
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    categorized as other conditions. Notably, conditions associated with giant platelets and associated with mutations of MYH9 are no longer considered to be...
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    low white blood cell count, especially of lymphocytes, as well as a low platelet count. These signs may or may not be accompanied by anorexia, a runny nose...
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  • (a shortage of red blood cells), a high white blood cell count, a high platelet count, allergic reactions, immune complexes, antibodies (tools the body...
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    Idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (category Immune system disorders)
    known as giant lymph node hyperplasia, lymphoid hamartoma, or angiofollicular lymph node hyperplasia), a group of lymphoproliferative disorders characterized...
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    HHV-8-associated MCD (category Immune system disorders)
    known as giant lymph node hyperplasia, lymphoid hamartoma, or angiofollicular lymph node hyperplasia), a group of rare lymphoproliferative disorders characterized...
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