Living with a rare disease often means feeling unseen and alone, even when surrounded by supportive family, friends, and a medical team. While they certainly…
Immune thrombocytopenia
High levels of anxiety and alexithymia, or difficulty in recognizing and expressing emotions, are associated with significantly poorer quality of life in people with primary…
A combination of the medicines eltrombopag and cyclosporine A may be effective for controlling immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) that doesn’t respond well to initial treatment…
“How are you feeling?” Who knew a simple, well-intentioned question could stir up so many emotions? I hear it several times a week, and it…
Lipid, or fat, metabolism is altered in people with immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), resulting in distinct metabolic signatures that could help distinguish ITP patients from healthy…
The size of platelets, the cell fragments that help blood clot, and the levels of certain immune cells in the body may help predict the…
The approved immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) treatment Doptelet (avatrombopag) may be able to be repurposed to treat certain bone diseases, according to a new…
Use of the experimental cell therapy QT-019B showed promise for people with treatment-resistant immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) in early clinical testing, restoring platelet counts —…
Doctors found that immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) complicated the surgical removal of a slow-growing, benign tumor along the spine of a 28-year-old man that impaired his…
Scientists in China have discovered that the proteins RNF5 and DNAJC21 — the latter encoded by the DNAJC21 gene — may be useful targets for…
