Fig. 1From: Stress-induced hyperglycemia is associated with the mortality of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura patientsPatient diagnosis and treatment flow. Between 2000 and 2021, 42 patients with TTP in our hospital were retrospectively enrolled, they were defined as survivors (25 cases) and non-survivors (17 cases) according to their survival status. A total of 26 TTP cases with serum glucose results on admission from published literature were collected as the external validation cohort, including 19 cases (73%) of survivors and 7 cases (27%) of non-survivorsBack to article page