A CASE OF REFRACTORY IMMUNE THROMBOCYTOPENIA APPLIED WITH AUTOLOGOUS HEMATOPOETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION

Abstract

Case report: A 61-year-old male patient who had previously been splenectomized for immune thrombocytopenia, hospitalized with mucosal bleeding. Upon failure to respond to steroid, intravenous immunoglobulin, rituximab, danazol, azathioprine and eltrombopag treatment, autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation was performed to the patient. At the end of the first month, he had normal platelet count.