New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College
Lancet study supports new, highly effective treatment for blood disorder
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, April 26th, 2009
Patients suffering from a blood disorder that prevents proper clotting have the option of a new medication that may dramatically improve their health. There are estimated to be between 50,000 and 100,000 individuals in the U.S. diagnosed with chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), an autoimmune disease that dramatically reduces the number of platelets in their blood -- causing bruises, nosebleeds and, rarely, life-threatening brain hemorrhages.
PromactaŽ (eltrombopag) was granted accelerated approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in November 2008 for the treatment of thrombocytopenia in patients with chronic immune (idiopathic) thrombocytopenic...
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