Active surveillance data from 12 Canadian tertiary-care hospitals on children hospitalized
with postvaccination thrombocytopenia were analyzed. Since 1992, there have been 107 …

Background. Thrombocytopenia occasionally follows immunization of children, especially
after administration of measles-containing vaccines. The purpose of this study was to …

Patients who presented with purpura and blood platelets< 30× 109/l within 1 month after
vaccination were collected from a population based material of 506 consecutive pediatric …

An increasing body of evidence has been gathered since the mid-1960s to support a link
between vaccinations, particularly the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and …

Background Thrombocytopenic purpura (TP) after vaccination with measles, mumps and
rubella has occasionally been reported. Objectives To evaluate the incidence and …

BACKGROUND: The etiology of thrombocytopenia during infancy and early childhood may
be different from that of older children, because young children frequently receive vaccines …

Thrombocytopenic purpura is a well-recognized entity following common viral infections in
children, especially measles, chickenpox, rubella, and infectious mononucleosis. Acute and …

Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) of childhood (previously known as idiopathic
thrombocytopenic purpura) is characterized by isolated, immunemediated thrombocytopenia …

A case of acute thrombocytopenic purpura complicating live measles vaccination is
reported. Clinically and morphologically this case is identical to the postinfectious …

An acute thrombocytopenic purpura developed shortly after measles‐mumps‐rubella
vaccination in 23 of approximately 700 000 children immunized over a period of seven …