This is part of our House MD Project series.
On episode 19 of season 1, called “Kids”, a young diver named Mary arrives at the hospital during a meningitis scare, but her symptoms don’t fit those of meningitis. What she does have is neck pain which only happens when she twists her neck side to side, and a sort of rash on her lower abdomen.
Photo by Fox.
Later internal bleeding and seizures caused by brain bleeding are added to the symptoms. The final straw comes when it’s found out she’s also pregnant. Combining it all together, her pregnancy has caused a disease called thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura which explains all of her symptoms.
What we usually do here as part of the House MD Project is tell you what happened in the episode and then explain the disease. This time, the disease was already covered here on A Disease A Day (it was actually the first ever article written on the site). You can read about it in the following link:
TTP – Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura – A Rare Disease That Could Kill You
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