title: A patient with apparent idiopathic A-megakaryocytic thrombocytopenia.
abstract: A 71-year-old woman developed life-threatening thrombocytopenia which resolved (probably spontaneously), recurred, and then again resolved. The thrombocytopenia was characterized by selective aphasia of megakaryocytes, near-normal platelet survival, and very slow recovery. No underlying disorder nor any drug could be incriminated, so we must assume this patient suffered from an idiopathic and very rare form of thrombocytopenia.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008533:Megakaryocytes / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013921:Thrombocytopenia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*