A 47-year-old woman with unexplained hemorrhage and change in mental status. 2006

Elizabeth Whetzel
Emergency Department, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. EAM1944@aol.com

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008875 Middle Aged An adult aged 45 - 64 years. Middle Age
D011697 Purpura, Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic An acquired, congenital, or familial disorder caused by PLATELET AGGREGATION with THROMBOSIS in terminal arterioles and capillaries. Clinical features include THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; AZOTEMIA; FEVER; and thrombotic microangiopathy. The classical form also includes neurological symptoms and end-organ damage, such as RENAL FAILURE. Mutations in the ADAMTS13 PROTEIN gene have been identified in familial cases. Moschkowitz Disease,Purpura, Thrombotic Thrombopenic,Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, Congenital,Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, Familial,Congenital Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura,Familial Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia Purpura,Familial Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura,Microangiopathic Hemolytic Anemia, Congenital,Moschcowitz Disease,Schulman-Upshaw Syndrome,Thrombotic Microangiopathy, Familial,Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura,Upshaw Factor, Deficiency of,Upshaw-Schulman Syndrome,Familial Thrombotic Microangiopathy,Microangiopathy, Familial Thrombotic,Schulman Upshaw Syndrome,Thrombocytopenic Purpura, Thrombotic,Thrombopenic Purpura, Thrombotic,Thrombotic Thrombopenic Purpura,Upshaw Schulman Syndrome
D004635 Emergency Medicine The branch of medicine concerned with the evaluation and initial treatment of urgent and emergent medical problems, such as those caused by accidents, trauma, sudden illness, poisoning, or disasters. Emergency medical care can be provided at the hospital or at sites outside the medical facility. Medicine, Emergency
D005260 Female Females
D006470 Hemorrhage Bleeding or escape of blood from a vessel. Bleeding,Hemorrhages
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001523 Mental Disorders Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function. Mental Illness,Psychiatric Diseases,Psychiatric Disorders,Psychiatric Illness,Behavior Disorders,Diagnosis, Psychiatric,Mental Disorders, Severe,Psychiatric Diagnosis,Illness, Mental,Mental Disorder,Mental Disorder, Severe,Mental Illnesses,Psychiatric Disease,Psychiatric Disorder,Psychiatric Illnesses,Severe Mental Disorder,Severe Mental Disorders
D016529 Emergency Nursing The specialty or practice of nursing in the care of patients admitted to the emergency department. Emergency Room Nursing,Nursing, Emergency,Nursing, Emergency Room
D016896 Treatment Outcome Evaluation undertaken to assess the results or consequences of management and procedures used in combating disease in order to determine the efficacy, effectiveness, safety, and practicability of these interventions in individual cases or series. Rehabilitation Outcome,Treatment Effectiveness,Clinical Effectiveness,Clinical Efficacy,Patient-Relevant Outcome,Treatment Efficacy,Effectiveness, Clinical,Effectiveness, Treatment,Efficacy, Clinical,Efficacy, Treatment,Outcome, Patient-Relevant,Outcome, Rehabilitation,Outcome, Treatment,Outcomes, Patient-Relevant,Patient Relevant Outcome,Patient-Relevant Outcomes

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