Treatments of refractory immune thrombocytopenic purpura.
| Abbreviations: CHOP, cyclophosphamide, adriamycin, vincristine, prednisone; VCR-IVIG-SM, VCR; intravenous gammaglobulin; SM, Solumedrol |
| I. Promising treatments: |
| a. combination chemotherapy: CHOP-like, VCR-IVIG-SM (Table 6) |
| b. anti-CD40 Ligand |
| c. rituximab |
| d. ? thrombopoietin or thrombopoietin like substances |
| e. autologous bone marrow transplantation |
| II. Treatments that have an apparent low likelihood of success when used alone in refractory patients: |
| a. Interleukin-11 (Neumega) |
| b. Anti-D |
| c. Interferon |
| d. Staph protein A columns |
| e. Plasmapheresis |
| Abbreviations: CHOP, cyclophosphamide, adriamycin, vincristine, prednisone; VCR-IVIG-SM, VCR; intravenous gammaglobulin; SM, Solumedrol |
| I. Promising treatments: |
| a. combination chemotherapy: CHOP-like, VCR-IVIG-SM (Table 6) |
| b. anti-CD40 Ligand |
| c. rituximab |
| d. ? thrombopoietin or thrombopoietin like substances |
| e. autologous bone marrow transplantation |
| II. Treatments that have an apparent low likelihood of success when used alone in refractory patients: |
| a. Interleukin-11 (Neumega) |
| b. Anti-D |
| c. Interferon |
| d. Staph protein A columns |
| e. Plasmapheresis |