Hey Mary!
Sorry to hear aobut your Mom's platelets. There are a couple of drugs out there used to increase platelet counts:
NPlate (Romiplostim) and
Promacta (eltrombopag).
I don't believe either is FDA-approved for MDS; they are used for ITP. But there are definitely trials of Promacta for MDS. I think the initial US trials for romiplostim in MDS went poorly; there don't seem to be any new ones recruiting patients on clinicaltrials.gov
Give that your Mom is enrolled in a Revlimid trial, she might or might not be able to use Promacta, but it might be worth mentioning to her docs.
Take Care!
Greg
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