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TRANSFUSION CLINIQUE ET BIOLOGIQUE
Volume 25, Issue 3, Pages 210-216Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.tracli.2018.06.005
Keywords
Thrombocytopenia; Vascular integrity; Spontaneous bleeding; Platelets; Inflammation; Petechial bleeding; Angiogenesis
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- La Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale [DPC20171138959]
- la Fondation Arc [PJA20151203107]
- INCa [2016-164]
- la Fondation de France
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Spontaneous bleeding is a clinical hallmark of thrombocytopenia and can take multiple forms including petechiae, epistaxis, gum bleeding, or, in worst cases, intracranial hemorrhage. Those bleeding events are called spontaneous because they occur in the absence of overt trauma. Spontaneous bleeding manifestations have long been considered to be a direct consequence of low platelet counts. Nevertheless, although low platelet counts may lead to ultrastructural endothelial alterations, those alterations and the associated state of vascular fragility are unlikely sufficient to cause spontaneous rupture of the microvessel wall. Indeed, in addition to endothelial injury, factors capable of damaging the basement membrane are required to allow escape of red blood cells in the extravascular space. Therefore, despite their misleading name, spontaneous bleeding events in thrombocytopenia are most likely provoked and involve subclinical biological processes in which platelets normally intervene to ensure hemostasis. In this review, we discuss past and more recent studies on the possible triggers of spontaneous bleeding events in thrombocytopenia, with a particular focus on the role of inflammatory reactions. (C) 2018 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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