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Old Fri Oct 30, 2009, 10:58 AM
lfeinsmith lfeinsmith is offline
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Promacta

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Originally Posted by Birgitta-A View Post
Hi all,
Here is a report (the first?) about positive results from a study where MDS patients with low platelets were treated with Promacta :
http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrar...ct/114/18/3899

Unfortunately there is a report in the same number of Blood about both Nplate and Promacta causing increased bone marrow fibrosis in some patients with Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (a bleeding disorder).
Kind regards
Birgitta-A
Is there any new info for Patients with predominantly thrombocytopenia 36000: IPSS inter 1 : Hgb 12.8, Abs neutr
1,100 and quite stable; less than 5% blasts: cytogenetics normal
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