Successful use of a second course of caplacizumab in relapsed thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.


Journal

Platelets
ISSN: 1369-1635
Titre abrégé: Platelets
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9208117

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
04 Jul 2022
Historique:
pubmed: 28 9 2021
medline: 31 5 2022
entrez: 27 9 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

There is limited data on the use of caplacizumab beyond the initial treatment course. We describe a patient case demonstrating the efficacy of a second course of caplacizumab in a patient with relapsed acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP). A 25-year-old female was treated for an initial event of TTP with steroids, plasma exchange, rituximab, and caplacizumab. Caplacizumab was continued 30 days post plasma exchange, which was on day 46 of treatment, at which time platelets had improved to 292 x 10

Identifiants

pubmed: 34565299
doi: 10.1080/09537104.2021.1981851
doi:

Substances chimiques

Fibrinolytic Agents 0
Single-Domain Antibodies 0
caplacizumab 2R27AB6766
Rituximab 4F4X42SYQ6
ADAMTS13 Protein EC 3.4.24.87

Types de publication

Case Reports Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

790-791

Auteurs

Jon Shaffer (J)

Department of Pharmacy, AdventHealth Orlando, Orlando, FL, USA.

Angela Grove (A)

Department of Pharmacy, AdventHealth Orlando, Orlando, FL, USA.

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