Knowledge Check

Sorting exercise

Drag and drop the cards with causes of thrombocytopenia on the top to the bucket that coincides with the typical clinical setting on the bottom.

Infection
Alcohol toxicity
Thrombotic thrombocytopena purpura (TTP)
Extracorporeal circuit
Gestational thrombocytopenia
Medication effect
Dilutional thrombocytopenia
Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP)
ITP with bleed
HELLP
Familial thrombocytopenia
Cirrhosis
Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS)
Outpatient
Urgent care
Inpatient

Matching exercise

Drag and drop the conditions on the left to the corresponding smear findings on the right.


Cirrhosis
PTP
TTP
Platelet clumping
Target cells, acanthocytes
Schistocytes
Correct! Sorry, Incorrect.

PTP, pseudothrombocytopenia; TTP, thrombotic thrombocytopenia purpura

Matching exercise

Drag and drop the platelet count thresholds on the left to the corresponding platelet counts on the right.


Threshold for increased risk of bleeing
Threshold for treating ITP
Threshold for ITP diagnosis
Platelet count < 10K
Platelet count < 30K
Platelet count < 100K
Correct! Sorry, Incorrect.

Which is more common:

a
Primary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP)
b
Secondary ITP

True of false: immune thrombocytopenia is a diagnosis of exclusion.

a
True
b
False

Sorting exercise

Drag and drop the cards on the top into their corresponding buckets on the bottom.

Rituximab
Corticosteroids
TPO receptor agonists
IVIG
First-line therapy
Second-line therapy

True of false: all patients with new onset immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) should receive rituximab.

a
True
b
False
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