Table 2.

Platelet response

VariableTotal (n = 138)Statistical significance (P value)
Quality of response   
Patients with a platelet response, n (%) 109 (79.0)  
Response stratified by variables   
Age in y (<65 vs ≥65), % 76.7 vs 80.5 .584 
Sex (men vs women), % 78.7 vs 79.2 .939 
Baseline platelet count (<20 × 109/L vs ≥20 × 109/L), % 80.2 vs 79.2 .882 
Prior therapy with IVIG (yes/no), % 73.8 vs 83.1 .181 
Prior therapy with TPO-RAs (yes/no), % 76.1 vs 80.3 .326 
Prior therapy with rituximab (yes/no), % 70.0 vs 82.6 .098 
Splenectomized vs nonsplenectomized, % 89.5 vs 77.3 .227 
Bleeding at diagnosis (yes/no), % 78.9 vs 77.5 .653 
Charlson comorbidity index at diagnosis (0 vs ≥1), % 75.0 vs 84.4 .177 
Fostamatinib received in first/second line vs third line or later, % 84.6 vs 78.4 .601 
Fostamatinib use in primary ITP vs secondary ITP, % 80.3 vs 68.7 .413 
Fostamatinib monotherapy vs use in combination, % 85.4 vs 69.6 .026 
Platelet count at fostamatinib initiation (<20 × 109/L vs ≥20 × 109/L), % 67.2 vs 88.7 .002 
Fostamatinib use in chronic ITP vs nonchronic ITP, % 79.2 vs 76.9 .774 
Patients with a complete response, n (%) 74 (53.6)  
Duration of response   
Proportion of time with platelet response, % 83.3  
No. of patients with relapse after response, n (%) 19 (13.8)  
Treatments after fostamatinib   
Avatrombopag  
Romiplostim  
Steroids  
Steroids + immunosuppressants  
Immunoglobulins  
Eltrombopag  
Rituximab  
Cyclosporine  
Splenectomy  
Death  
VariableTotal (n = 138)Statistical significance (P value)
Quality of response   
Patients with a platelet response, n (%) 109 (79.0)  
Response stratified by variables   
Age in y (<65 vs ≥65), % 76.7 vs 80.5 .584 
Sex (men vs women), % 78.7 vs 79.2 .939 
Baseline platelet count (<20 × 109/L vs ≥20 × 109/L), % 80.2 vs 79.2 .882 
Prior therapy with IVIG (yes/no), % 73.8 vs 83.1 .181 
Prior therapy with TPO-RAs (yes/no), % 76.1 vs 80.3 .326 
Prior therapy with rituximab (yes/no), % 70.0 vs 82.6 .098 
Splenectomized vs nonsplenectomized, % 89.5 vs 77.3 .227 
Bleeding at diagnosis (yes/no), % 78.9 vs 77.5 .653 
Charlson comorbidity index at diagnosis (0 vs ≥1), % 75.0 vs 84.4 .177 
Fostamatinib received in first/second line vs third line or later, % 84.6 vs 78.4 .601 
Fostamatinib use in primary ITP vs secondary ITP, % 80.3 vs 68.7 .413 
Fostamatinib monotherapy vs use in combination, % 85.4 vs 69.6 .026 
Platelet count at fostamatinib initiation (<20 × 109/L vs ≥20 × 109/L), % 67.2 vs 88.7 .002 
Fostamatinib use in chronic ITP vs nonchronic ITP, % 79.2 vs 76.9 .774 
Patients with a complete response, n (%) 74 (53.6)  
Duration of response   
Proportion of time with platelet response, % 83.3  
No. of patients with relapse after response, n (%) 19 (13.8)  
Treatments after fostamatinib   
Avatrombopag  
Romiplostim  
Steroids  
Steroids + immunosuppressants  
Immunoglobulins  
Eltrombopag  
Rituximab  
Cyclosporine  
Splenectomy  
Death  

Platelet response and variables with statistically significant differences are indicated in bold. TPO-RAs, thrombopoietin receptor agonists.

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