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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.

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

What is the threshold platelet count required for a diagnosis of immune thrombocytopenia?
Click for AnswerMatching exercise

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

Cirrhosis
TTP
PTP
Platelet clumping
Schistocytes
Target cells, acanthocytes
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 ITP diagnosis
Threshold for treating ITP
Platelet count < 30K
Platelet count < 10K
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.

TPO receptor agonists
Corticosteroids
IVIG
Rituximab
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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