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Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a disease in which your immune system destroys the platelets in your blood believing them to be a foreign pathogen that is invading your body. It can occur both in childhood and adulthood of which there is different courses of treatments depending on the severity of the disease. | Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a disease in which your immune system destroys the platelets in your blood believing them to be a foreign pathogen that is invading your body. It can occur both in childhood and adulthood of which there is different courses of treatments depending on the severity of the disease.<ref>Kühne T (2016) Hämostaseologie: Diagnosis and management of immune thrombocytopenia in childhood</ref> | ||
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Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a disease in which your immune system destroys the platelets in your blood believing them to be a foreign pathogen that is invading your body. It can occur both in childhood and adulthood of which there is different courses of treatments depending on the severity of the disease.[1]
- ↑ Kühne T (2016) Hämostaseologie: Diagnosis and management of immune thrombocytopenia in childhood