Can TPO agonists, like avatrombopag or lusutrombopag, be used for patients with chronic thrombocytopenia and new acute portal vein thrombosis?
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Hematology · University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
A caveat before answering - these tend to be very difficult clinical situations in a population that often has cirrhosis and has a very difficult-to-predict hemostatic picture (whether they are prohemorrhagic or prothrombotic from the underlying liver disease).
I would refer you to some of the excell...