Balancing Therapy with Thrombopoietin Receptor Agonists and Splenectomy in Refractory Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura: A Case of Postsplenectomy Thrombocytosis Requiring Plateletpheresis

Immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) causes thrombocytopenia through the autoimmune destruction of platelets. Corticosteroids remain the first line of therapy, and traditionally splenectomy has been the second. While the availability of thrombopoietin receptor agonists (TPO-RAs) has expanded treatm...

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Autores principales: Zimmerman, Jacquelyn, Norsworthy, Kelly J., Brodsky, Robert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5080471/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27812394
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5403612

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5080471/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27812394
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5403612

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