Immune Thrombocytopenia
Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is an autoimmune bleeding disorder, and ITP presents as either primary or, during the course of the disease, secondary, where approximately 20% of the cases are secondary to other diseases such as systemic autoimmune disease. The management goal of ITP is to treat or prevent severe bleeding, not to normalize the platelet count. ITP is thought to be an autoimmune syndr