Efficacy of thrombopoietin receptor agonists versus rituximab in non-responsive immune thrombocytopenia-A single centre retrospective analysis.
Br J Haematol
; 2024 Jul 07.
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| ID: mdl-38973132
ABSTRACT
Management of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) beyond initial glucocorticoid therapy is challenging. In this retrospective single-centre cohort study, we compared all ITP patients relapsed or non-responsive to glucocorticoid therapy treated with either continuous TPO-RAs (n = 35) or rituximab induction (n = 20) between 2015 and 2022. While both groups showed high initial complete response rates (CR, 68.6 vs. 80.0%, ns), the overall rate of progression to the next therapy was higher after time-limited rituximab (75.0 vs. 42.9%), resulting in a lower relapse-free survival (median 16.6 vs. 25.8 months, log-rank; p < 0.05). We conclude that both treatments show similar initial efficacy and their ideal duration of therapy warrants further investigation.
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Br J Haematol
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2024
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