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Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP)&nbsp;is a disease in which your immune system&nbsp;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>
Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP)&nbsp;is a disease in which your immune system&nbsp;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 name="1">Kühne T (2016) Hämostaseologie: Diagnosis and management of immune thrombocytopenia in childhood</ref> <references />

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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.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name cannot be a simple integer. Use a descriptive title