Advances in ITP--therapy and quality of life--a patient survey.

BACKGROUND: Current guidelines recommend glucocorticoids and splenectomy as standard 1(st) and 2(nd) line treatments for chronic immune thrombocytopenia (ITP). We sought to find out how German ITP-patients are treated with respect to these guidelines. METHODS: Members of a patient support associatio...

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Main Authors: Axel C Matzdorff, Gabriele Arnold, Abdulgabar Salama, Helmut Ostermann, Sonja Eberle, Simone Hummler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3214030?pdf=render