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How would you manage a pediatric patient with immune thrombocytopenia who has severe thrombocytopenia without bleeding symptoms?

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Pediatric Hematology/Oncology · Weill Medical College of Cornell University

As posed according to current data and opinion (for best: see the TIKI trial), there is NOT an urgent reason to treat.

However, choosing to observe rather than treat requires careful assessment of the patient and the family.

Examples include:

  • Does the patient have a headache?
  • Did they receive ibuprofe...

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