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Alternatives for managing patients with newly diagnosed immune thrombocytopenia: a narrative review.

Guillermo José Ruiz ArgüellesEdgar A Rojas-GuerreroAndrés Gómez-De LeónPerla R Colunga-PedrazaJosé Carlos Jaime-Pérez
Published in: Expert review of hematology (2022)
The key areas for improvement consider the long-term effects of conventional first-line therapy, reducing relapse rates, and extending responses to achieve long-term remission. Although corticosteroids remain a first-line therapy, restricting their use to avoid toxicity and the increasing use of rituximab and TPO-RAs in the first three months after diagnosis open the landscape for future interventions in frontline therapy for ITP. First-line therapy intensification or synergistic drug combination offers a potential and realistic shift in future treatment guidelines.
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