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ITP blood disorder results in excessive bruising, bleeding


November 18, 2010

Actress Lisa Blount, best known for her role as Debra Winger's friend in the 1982 film “An Officer and a Gentleman,” died at age 53. Authorities did not provide a cause of death, but Blount's mother indicated the actress had a blood disorder known as idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura.....

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