“…We also eliminated articles if patients were known to have SLE before the diagnosis of TTP, or if the publication described laboratory experiments investigating the pathogenesis of TTP. These exclusions left us with 91 citations (2)(3)(4)(5)9, for review, from which we identified 44 cases of pediatric-onset TTP (9,(11)(12)(13)16,17,20,27,28,(32)(33)(34)38,40,41,43,45,46,(53)(54)(55)57,58,63,65,70,72,73,80,82,83,91,94). We screened the bibliography of all 91 citations for additional case reports or relevant articles, but could not identify any.…”