A CASE OF REFRACTORY IMMUNE THROMBOCYTOPENIA APPLIED WITH AUTOLOGOUS HEMATOPOETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION

KARADENIZ, Mine; UCDAL, Mete; GOKER, Hakan; MALKAN, Umit Yavuz

doi:10.1016/j.htct.2021.10.1052

Hematology, Transfusion and Cell Therapy

ISSN: 2531-1379

Hematology, Transfusion and Cell Therapy is a quarterly scientific publication of the Associação Brasileira de Hematologia, Hemoterapia e Terapia Celular (ABHH), Associazione Italo-Brasiliana di Ematologia (AIBE), Eurasian Hematology Oncology Group (EHOG), and Sociedade Brasileira de Oncologia Pediátrica (SOBOPE).

Hematology, Transfusion and Cell Therapy publishes original articles, review articles and case reports covering various areas in the field of hematology and hemotherapy. The journal was previously published, until 2016, as Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia.

ISSN print: 2531-1379
ISSN online: 2531-1387

Published by Elsevier Editora Ltda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Web of Science, LILACS, SciELO Brazil, ESCI (Web of Science), Scopus, and PubMed/PMC

A 61-year-old male patient who had previously been splenectomized for immune thrombocytopenia, hospitalized with mucosal bleeding. Upon failure to respond to steroid, intravenous immunoglobulin, rituximab, danazol, azathioprine and eltrombopag treatment, autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation was performed to the patient. At the end of the first month, he had normal platelet count.

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