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Library of ArticlesDear Visitor, These pages are currently under construction while the ITP Foundation uploads numerous articles to our Library. Please excuse the appearance, while looking through the articles below. Please visit again soon for what we anticipate to be an extremely comprehensive and premiere source for ITP education. Thank you. We hope that the various resources provided for your reference in this section will help in your quest for more information about ITP. This information may potentially help you and your child's doctor devise an ITP management strategy. We would like to emphasize that information available from the resources above is for the purpose of reference only. Library of Articles about ITP
MMR Vaccine May Raise Risk of Blood Disorder NEW YORK - 3/10/2008 (REUTERS): Results of a study suggest a link between Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine given in the second year of life and an increased risk of immune thrombocytopenic purpura. To continue reading about the MMR Study, click here...
ICIS Reports on ITP Activities A standing room-only audience attended the December 4 breakfast meeting of the Intercontinental Childhood ITP Study Group (ICIS) in San Diego. Held to coincide with the 46th annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), the ICIS Meeting attracted physicians, researchers, nurses and other medical professionals with an interest in ITP. To continue reading about the ICIS Group, click here... Study Shows No Adverse Reactions to Increased Infusion Rate of IVIG Treatment http://www.itpfoundation.org/upload/articles/Gamunex.ASH.December 2004.doc Refractory Idiopathic Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura in Children Paul Imbach / University Children's Hospital , Bazel, Switzerland http://www.itpfoundation.org/upload/articles/ITPF_Doc.pdf Anti-D Initially Stimulates an Fc-dependent Leukocyte Oxidative Burst and Subsequently Suppresses Erythrophagocytosis via Interleukin-1 Receptor Antagonist Malini D. Coopamah, John Freedman, and John W. Semple http://www.itpfoundation.org/upload/articles/Anti-D.pdf Blood Disorder Doesn't Slow Down Princeton Youth George Robinson / Kentucky New Era http://www.kentuckynewera.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?/200407/17+stone07172004_sports.html+20040717+sports Out for Blood: Maintaining a Supply of the Vital Fluid of Life Requires a Long Journey and Dedicated Work Andrew Martel / The Winchester Star http://www.winchesterstar.com/TheWinchesterStar/040918/Area_BLood.asp Watchful Waiting for ITP? RA Dershewitz http://www.itpfoundation.org/upload/articles/Watchful Waiting ITP.Journal Watch.pdf Short-Course, High Dose Steroids for ITP Allan S. Brett, MD http://www.itpfoundation.org/upload/articles/Steroid ITP.Journal Watch.pdf Newly Diagnosed ITP -- Which Therapy is Best? F. Bruder Stapleton, MD http://www.itpfoundation.org/upload/articles/Newly Diagnosed ITP.Journal Watch.pdf Response to Intravenous Immunoglobulin Predicts Splenectomy Response in Children With Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura Derick Holt, Justin Brown, Kelly Terrill, Robert Goldsby, Rebecka L. Meyers, Jody Heximer, Beth Nordfors and William B. Slayton http://www.itpfoundation.org/upload/articles/IVIG Splenectomy Response.ITP.pdf ITP: The Bad Actors Alan Lichtin http://www.itpfoundation.org/upload/articles/ITP Splenectomy Bad actors.pdf Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) Plasma and Purified ITP Monoclonal Autoantibodies Inhibit Megakaryocytopoiesis in Vitro Mei Chang, Peggy A. Nakagawa, Shirley A. Williams, Michael R. Schwartz, Karen L. Imfeld, Jeffrey S. Buzby and Diane J. Nugent / Children's Hospital of Orange County http://www.itpfoundation.org/upload/articles/ITP Plasma.pdf IVIG Induces Dose-Dependent Amelioration of ITP in Rodent Models Andrew R. Crow, Seng Song, John W. Semple, John Freedman, and Alan H. Lazarus / St Michael's Hospital http://www.itpfoundation.org/upload/articles/IBIG amlerioration.pdf Helicobacter Pylori and Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura in Children Jukka Rajantie and Timo Klemola / Helsinki University Central http://www.itpfoundation.org/upload/articles/helicobacter pylori in children.ITP.pdf Helicobacter Pylori and ITP: Many Questions, Few Answers Keith R. McCrae / Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine http://www.itpfoundation.org/upload/articles/helicobacter pylori.ITP.pdf The Biology and Treatment of ITP: What's Next? Steven E. McKenzie / Cardeza Foundation for Hematologic Research http://www.itpfoundation.org/upload/articles/biology and treatment of ITP.pdf Antibodies Redux Douglas B. Cines / University of Pennsylvania http://www.itpfoundation.org/upload/articles/Antibodies Redux.pdf Anti-CD40L: Biology and Therapy in ITP Joseph Schwartz and James B. Bussel / New York Blood Center and Weill Medical College of Cornell University http://www.itpfoundation.org/upload/articles/Ant-CD40L.ITP.pdf Long-Term Outcomes in Adults with Chronic ITP After Splenectomy Failure Robert McMillan and Carol Durette http://www.itpfoundation.org/upload/articles/Adult ITP Splenectomy Failures.pdf |
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