i have low blood platelets and they have tried the prednisne and ivs but they have not increased we think the druh zetia may have caused this, i stopped taking zetia, and after 3 days we checked to blood platelets and they still hadn t increased any ideas i do not want a spleenectomy
Hi, Sorry to hear that. If you want to delay splenectomy, you discuss other options like Dawson, eltrombopag, rituximab with your hematologist. However, in steroid dependent ITP patients, splenectomy has shown good results. Nowadays, it is done by laparoscopy and is much less cumbersome. All the best.