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Would you offer TPO-RAs to a steroid-refractory chronic ITP patient with history of stroke?

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Yes, if needed, though with a bit of trepidation, and it probably wouldn't be my first choice. Second-line chronic ITP treatment can include TPO-RA, rituximab, or splenectomy, and no one treatment is clearly better than the others (Neunert et al., PMID 31794604). Both splenectomy and TPO-RAs have in...

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