Delayed profound thrombocytopenia presenting 7 days after use of abciximab (ReoPro).

A case of a 65-year-old woman presenting with delayed profound thrombocytopenia 7 days after the use of abciximab (ReoPro) in the setting of percutaneous coronary intervention is described. The patient had normal platelet counts for the first 24 hours after the use of abciximab (ReoPro). She presented with petechiae and profound thrombocytopenia 1 week later.

Elevated soluble c-erbB-2 antigen levels in the serum and effusions of a proportion of breast cancer patients.

Purpose: An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the extracellular domain of the c-erbB-2 oncogene product was developed and evaluated to determine if soluble c-erbB-2 could be detected in the serum and effusions of cancer patients.

Patients And Methods: Sera from 208 previously untreated or progressing cancer patients and 69 healthy controls were assayed in a double-antibody sandwich ELISA that used two monoclonal antibodies to the native extracellular domain of the c-erbB-2 receptor. Fisher's exact test was used to analyze the statistical significance of the frequency of elevated serum c-erbB-2 levels.