Title: Thrombotic Microangiopathy: the Lebanese Experience
Duration: 3 years
Partnership: Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Paris and Hôtel-Dieu de France, Beirut
Summary:
Among the possible work ideas:
1- Attempt to study the susceptibility genes of patients with TTP (Thrombotic thrombocytopenic Purpura) acquired in Lebanon; it would be interesting to see if Lebanese patients have the same HLA alleles overrepresented than those observed in France.
2- Explore the impact of clinical and biological autoimmune manifestations among our patients.
3- Study the factors triggering an episode, and in particular, the influence of an infectious process found before or during an episode.