Transmission of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura during orthotopic liver transplantation.

The article presents a case study of a 44-year-old man with diabetes mellitus type I and Crohn's disease who underwent re-transplantation of the liver for ischemic-type biliary lesions and cholangitis. The patient underwent his first liver transplantation for primary sclerosing cholangitis in 2002. He has no history of thrombocytopenia. The patient's donor has arteriosclerosis and before he died, he was positive of purpura and acute thrombocytopenia.