Experience of kidney transplantation to a patient with Bernard Soulier syndrome: A case report. Turk J Surg 2023 Mar;39(1):86-88
Date
06/05/2023Pubmed ID
37275935Pubmed Central ID
PMC10234715DOI
10.47717/turkjsurg.2022.4567Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85164944425 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)Abstract
Renal transplantation could be a challenging operation in patients with haemorrhagic diathesis, with predictable difficulties or even with unpredictable hurdles. Bernard Soulier Syndrome (BSS) is one of the ethiologies of the thrombocytopenia and it is a rare hereditary disease associated with defects of the platelet glycoprotein complex glycoprotein Ib/V/IX and characterized by large platelets, thrombocytopenia, and severe bleeding symptoms. Here, we present a challenging renal transplantation in BSS.