TY - JOUR T1 - Coronary artery stenting in a patient with chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura: a clinical conundrum JF - BMJ Case Reports DO - 10.1136/bcr-02-2012-5802 VL - 2012 SP - bcr0220125802 AU - Charleen Min Li Chan Wah Hak AU - Yew Oo Tan AU - Charles Chan Y1 - 2012/09/24 UR - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2012/bcr-02-2012-5802.abstract N2 - A patient with long-standing immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) would logically contradict antiplatelet use due to increased bleeding risk during coronary stenting. Coronary stenting using an endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) capture stents (GenousTM) was used to successfully revascularise our patient using a transradial approach. The only complication was extensive superficial ecchymosis on the patient's forearm from antiplatelet use, which resolved spontaneously. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case report of EPC capture stents in a chronic ITP patient. ER -