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From: jca@drutx.UUCP (ArnsonJC)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Low Platelets
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 10:55:57 EST
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	Decreased production of platelets in a normally healthy
adult is often due to toxic agents, such as certain antibiotics,
most notably penicillin, chloramphenicol, and tetracyclines.  Other
common ones, but less frequent are streptomycin, sulfonamides, and
the list goes on -- insecticides: DDT and parathion; misc: hair
dyes, carbon tet., radiation, bismuth.  These are usually associated
with bone marrow abnormalitites caused by the toxic agents.

	 Immune mechanisms and consumption of platelets are very
often caused by various diseases. The list here is quite long, and
some of the diseases are quite exotic.

	A somewhat readable book is @u(Hematology) edited by William
Beck. Read the chapter on platelet disorders.
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			jill c. arnson
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