Clinical outcome and treatment pattern linked with chronic immune thrombocytopenia at a tertiary care teaching hospital

Abstract

ITP is considered as ‘isolated thrombocytopenia with no clinically apparent associated conditions or other causes of thrombocytopenia' by the American Society for Haematology guidelines. So it is thus a condition that, to a large extent, is a diagnosis of exclusion. Asymptomatic patients of chronic ITP do not require treatment as per the guidelines unless they are bleeding or the platelet count in adults is