{"title":"Pentoxifylline treatment for microangiopathic hemolytic anemia caused by mechanical heart valves.","authors":"S Geller, R Gelber","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The use of pentoxifylline increased the hematocrit and eliminated the transfusion requirement for a patient who had microangiopathic hemolytic anemia due to three prosthetic heart valves.</p>","PeriodicalId":77251,"journal":{"name":"Maryland medical journal (Baltimore, Md. : 1985)","volume":"48 4","pages":"173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1999-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Maryland medical journal (Baltimore, Md. : 1985)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The use of pentoxifylline increased the hematocrit and eliminated the transfusion requirement for a patient who had microangiopathic hemolytic anemia due to three prosthetic heart valves.