Romiplostim therapy as a second‐line treatment before splenectomy for refractory immune thrombocytopenia in a cirrhotic patient with iatrogenic Cushing syndrome secondary to corticosteroids

Our case report discusses the usefulness of administering romiplostim as a second‐line treatment before splenectomy in a cirrhotic patient with immune thrombocytopenia who developed corticosteroid‐induced Cushing's syndrome. Corticosteroids were tapered and consequently withdrawn. The patient m...

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Autores principales: Casanovas Taltavull, Teresa, Peña‐Cala, Maria Carmen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5290496/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28174643
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.667
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description Our case report discusses the usefulness of administering romiplostim as a second‐line treatment before splenectomy in a cirrhotic patient with immune thrombocytopenia who developed corticosteroid‐induced Cushing's syndrome. Corticosteroids were tapered and consequently withdrawn. The patient made a full recovery postsplenectomy.
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spelling pubmed-52904962017-02-07 Romiplostim therapy as a second‐line treatment before splenectomy for refractory immune thrombocytopenia in a cirrhotic patient with iatrogenic Cushing syndrome secondary to corticosteroids Casanovas Taltavull, Teresa Peña‐Cala, Maria Carmen Clin Case Rep Case Reports Our case report discusses the usefulness of administering romiplostim as a second‐line treatment before splenectomy in a cirrhotic patient with immune thrombocytopenia who developed corticosteroid‐induced Cushing's syndrome. Corticosteroids were tapered and consequently withdrawn. The patient made a full recovery postsplenectomy. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-01-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5290496/ /pubmed/28174643 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.667 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Romiplostim therapy as a second‐line treatment before splenectomy for refractory immune thrombocytopenia in a cirrhotic patient with iatrogenic Cushing syndrome secondary to corticosteroids
title Romiplostim therapy as a second‐line treatment before splenectomy for refractory immune thrombocytopenia in a cirrhotic patient with iatrogenic Cushing syndrome secondary to corticosteroids
title_full Romiplostim therapy as a second‐line treatment before splenectomy for refractory immune thrombocytopenia in a cirrhotic patient with iatrogenic Cushing syndrome secondary to corticosteroids
title_fullStr Romiplostim therapy as a second‐line treatment before splenectomy for refractory immune thrombocytopenia in a cirrhotic patient with iatrogenic Cushing syndrome secondary to corticosteroids
title_full_unstemmed Romiplostim therapy as a second‐line treatment before splenectomy for refractory immune thrombocytopenia in a cirrhotic patient with iatrogenic Cushing syndrome secondary to corticosteroids
title_short Romiplostim therapy as a second‐line treatment before splenectomy for refractory immune thrombocytopenia in a cirrhotic patient with iatrogenic Cushing syndrome secondary to corticosteroids
title_sort romiplostim therapy as a second‐line treatment before splenectomy for refractory immune thrombocytopenia in a cirrhotic patient with iatrogenic cushing syndrome secondary to corticosteroids
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5290496/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28174643
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.667
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