Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura

National Support Day for Serious Blood Disorder Launched

Published in Blood Weekly, November 6th, 1995

People who suffer from immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) - a serious bleeding disorder triggered by a low blood platelet count - and the medical professionals who treat them, will participate in the nation's first ITP Family Support Day, January 20, 1996.

TP Family Support Day and a related public awareness effort have been organized by The ITP Society, a division of The Children's Blood Foundation, to educate the public and medical community about a blood disease that afflicts approximately 20-40,000 people each year, including thousands of children and as many as five percent of all pregnant women.

"The symptoms include abnormal, spontaneous...

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