TY - JOUR T1 - Thrombocytopenia responding to red blood cell transfusion JF - Saudi Medical Journal JO - Saudi Med J SP - 106 LP - 109 VL - 25 IS - 1 AU - Ahmed A. Mubarak AU - Abdalla Awidi AU - Kakil I. Rasul AU - Ussama Al-Homsi Y1 - 2004/01/01 UR - http://smj.org.sa/content/25/1/106.abstract N2 - Three patients with severe symptomatic iron deficiency anemia and thrombocytopenia had a significant rise in platelet count a few days following packed red blood cell transfusion. Pre-transfusion platelet count of patient one was 17 x 109/L, 22 x 109/L in patient 2 and 29 x 109/L in patient 3. On the 6th day post transfusion, the platelet count rose to 166 x 109/L in patient one, 830 x 109/L in patient 2 and 136 x 109/L in patient 3. The possible mechanisms behind such an unreported observation are discussed. ER -