An acquired, transient bleeding disorder characterised by a thrombocytopathic bleeding with a platelet storage pool disorder has been reported from the Southeast Asian region and elsewhere since the 1960s. The condition has been coined acquired platelet dysfunction with eosinophilia (APDE) as cases reported earlier were also found to have eosinophilia.
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