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    Lara C. Pullen, PhD, is a freelance medical writer in Chicago. Silent cerebral infarction (SCI) refers to the often-​incidental finding of brain infarction in the absence of overt neurologic deficits. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) evidence suggests that not only are such brain infarctions com mon in survivors of immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia purpura (iTTP), but they are also strongly associated with impaired cognition. Shruti Chaturvedi, MBBS, MS, of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and

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