AnswersDriveThe most dangerous complication of ITP is bleeding, especially bleeding into the brain, which can be fatal. However, serious bleeding is rare. The treatments for ITP can have more risks than the disease itself.
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Thrombocytopenia: A low blood platelet count. A shortage of bloods platelets may lead to easy bruising or bleeding. Swollen lymph nodes: In some cases, the signs of leukemia may include noticeable swelling of the neck, armpit or groin.
What is ITP cancer?
Immune thrombocytopenia purpura (ITP) is a bleeding disorder. It is a reduction in the number of platelets in your blood. Platelets are small cells in your blood that stick together to form blood clots. These clots help stop bleeding at injury sites.
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Is ITP is curable?
A: While there is no cure for ITP, many patients find their platelet count improves following treatment. The disease can go into remission for a long time, perhaps for the remainder of a person's life. ITP can also recur. There is currently no way to predict the course of the disease.
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Can ITP cause fatigue?
Inflammation is also thought to cause fatigue in chronic disease and immune dysregulation in ITP appears to have a number of pro-inflammatory components. Although effective ITP-directed therapy can improve fatigue, a number of fatigue-directed strategies may also need to be considered.
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Can ITP go away on its own?
It is the most common form of ITP in children. It typically occurs 1-6 weeks following an infection caused by a virus. This ITP is transient, meaning that the disease will go away on its own within weeks and months and will not return. Of children with ITP, 80-90% have acute ITP.
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Is ITP a genetic disease?
Sometimes people are diagnosed with ITP when they have an entirely different disease, inherited or familial thrombocytopenia, low platelets caused by a genetic mutation, not by auto-antibodies. Getting the right diagnosis is extremely important. Some types of inherited thrombocytopenia are easy to spot.
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Is ITP a rare disease?
He was diagnosed with immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), an autoimmune disease in which the body mistakes platelets for foreign bodies and destroys them. ITP is a rare condition, affecting around five people per 100,000. It causes bleeding, severe bruising and small red spots on the skin, known as purpura.
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How is ITP caused?
Bleeding in the brain as a result of ITP is very rare, but can be life threatening if it occurs. In most cases, an autoimmune response is believed to cause ITP. Normally your immune system helps your body fight off infections and diseases. But if you have ITP, your immune system attacks and destroys its own platelets.
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Can ITP come back again?
It also destroys old or damaged blood cells. But removing the spleen permanently reduces your body's ability to fight infection. Some people can have the ITP come back even after the spleen is removed. So this treatment is not done as often as it used to be.
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Is there a cure for ITP for adults?
Even people with very low counts, can sometimes have few symptoms. Some adults with mild ITP may not need any treatment, but will be monitored with occasional blood tests. There is no cure for ITP and treatment is used to raise the platelet count to counteract symptoms.
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How common is idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura?
The incidence (how many people are diagnosed each year) of immune thrombocytopenia among adults in the USA is estimated to be 3.3 per 100,000 adults/year. The incidence of ITP increases with age. Among adults (age 30-60) diagnosed with chronic ITP, there are 2.6 cases among women for every case involving a male.
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Is ITP contagious?
It is not contagious, meaning a child cannot "catch it" from playing with another child with ITP. It is also important to know that nothing the parents, nor the child, did caused the disorder. Often, the child may have had a virus or viral infection about three weeks before developing ITP.
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How do you diagnose ITP?
This common blood test is used to determine the number of blood cells, including platelets, in a sample of blood. With ITP, white and red blood cell counts are usually normal, but the platelet count is low. Blood smear. This test is often used to confirm the number of platelets observed in a complete blood count.
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What causes idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura?
If the cause of this immune reaction is unknown, the condition is called idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. Idiopathic means "of unknown cause." In most children with ITP, the disorder follows a viral illness, such as the mumps or the flu. It may be that the infection triggers the immune system malfunction.
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What causes a low platelet count?
Immune thrombocytopenia. This type is caused by autoimmune diseases, such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. The body's immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys platelets. If the exact cause of this condition isn't known, it's called idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura.
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What is a normal platelet count?
A normal platelet count ranges from 150,000 to 450,000 platelets per microliter of blood. Having more than 450,000 platelets is a condition called thrombocytosis; having less than 150,000 is known as thrombocytopenia. You get your platelet number from a routine blood test called a complete blood count (CBC).
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How many people in the US have ITP?
The latest review study reports that the incidence of adult ITP (how many people get diagnosed each year) is 3.3 per 100,000 adults/year. The prevalence (how many adults have ITP at any time) is approximately 9.5 cases per 100,000.
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What does Purpura rash look like?
Rash (purpura). Reddish-purple spots, which look like bruises, are the most distinctive and universal sign of Henoch-Schonlein purpura. The rash develops mainly on the buttocks, legs and feet, but it can also appear on the arms, face and trunk and may be worse in areas of pressure, such as the sock line and waistline.
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What is chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura?
Adult chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura (chronic ITP) is an autoimmune disorder in which patients produce antiplatelet autoantibodies and specialized white blood cells that destroy their blood platelets and, in some cases, damage their megakaryocytes (the cells that produce platelets in the bone marrow), causing
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How do you treat purpura?
You will need treatment if the disorder causing purpura doesn't go away on its own. Treatments include medications and sometimes a splenectomy, or surgery to remove the spleen. You may also be asked to stop taking medications that impair platelet function, such as aspirin, blood thinners, and ibuprofen.
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Is idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura and autoimmune disease?
ITP, immune thrombocytopenia (also known as immune or idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura) is an autoimmune disease. In autoimmune diseases, the body mounts an immune attack toward one or more seemingly normal organ systems. In ITP, platelets are the target.
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What is ITP during pregnancy?
Many women with low platelets are concerned about having a family. Sometimes a low platelet count is discovered when a woman is pregnant. If that's the case, it is important to determine if the low platelet count is associated with pregnancy (gestational thrombocytopenia) or due to another cause, such as ITP.