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Why Blood Platelets Are Not Increasing With Prednisone And Ivs? Don T Want To Undergo Spleenectomy
i have low blood platelets and they have tried the prednisne and ivs but they have not increased we think the druh zetia may have caused this, i stopped taking zetia, and after 3 days we checked to blood platelets and they still hadn t increased any ideas i do not want a spleenectomy
Thu, 29 Jan 2015
Hi,
Sorry to hear that. If you want to delay splenectomy, you discuss other options like dapsone, eltrombopag, rituximab with your hematologist. However in steroid dependent ITP patients, splenectomy has shown good results. Nowadays it is done by laparoscopy and is much less cumbersome. All the best.
Sorry to hear that. If you want to delay splenectomy, you discuss other options like dapsone, eltrombopag, rituximab with your hematologist. However in steroid dependent ITP patients, splenectomy has shown good results. Nowadays it is done by laparoscopy and is much less cumbersome. All the best.
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