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<Articles JournalTitle="Case Reports in Clinical Practice">
  <Article>
    <Journal>
      <PublisherName>Tehran University of Medical Sciences</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Case Reports in Clinical Practice</JournalTitle>
      <Issn>2538-2683</Issn>
      <Volume>6</Volume>
      <Issue>S1</Issue>
      <PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
        <Year>2022</Year>
        <Month>07</Month>
        <Day>06</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </Journal>
    <title locale="en_US">Maternal Death Due to Refractory Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP) Associated With Superimposed Preeclampsia, Sepsis, and Intracranial Hemorrhage: A Case Report</title>
    <FirstPage>292</FirstPage>
    <LastPage>297</LastPage>
    <AuthorList>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Vajihe</FirstName>
        <LastName>Marsusi</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Ashraf Sadat</FirstName>
        <LastName>Jamal</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Maasoumeh</FirstName>
        <LastName>Saleh</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Behnaz</FirstName>
        <LastName>Nouri</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
    </AuthorList>
    <History>
      <PubDate PubStatus="received">
        <Year>2021</Year>
        <Month>02</Month>
        <Day>13</Day>
      </PubDate>
      <PubDate PubStatus="accepted">
        <Year>2021</Year>
        <Month>04</Month>
        <Day>14</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </History>
    <abstract locale="en_US">Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP) is an acute, rare, potentially life-threatening disorder presenting with thrombocytopenia, hemolytic anemia, and clinical consequences of microvascular thrombosis caused by a deficiency of ADAMS13 [1, 2]. The incidence of acquired TTP is approximately three cases per one million adults per year, based on the Oklahoma TTP-Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) Registry [3]. Here, we present a case of TTP with persistent severely deficient ADAMS13 activity and recurrent relapses. She had a refractory relapse in the third trimester of pregnancy, complicated with superimposed severe preeclampsia and sepsis, and finally expired due to intracranial hemorrhage (ICH).</abstract>
    <web_url>https://crcp.tums.ac.ir/index.php/crcp/article/view/483</web_url>
  </Article>
</Articles>
