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Long-term response in a patient with ITP following low dose anti-D immunoglobulin therapy

N A Smith1, R K Chakraverty, D Obeid

  • 1Department of Haematology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham.

Autoimmunity
|January 1, 1989
PubMed

A patient with chronic ITP relapsed after conventional therapy but following an infusion with low dose anti D (Rho) immunoglobulin, she entered a remission which has now lasted 10 months. This is difficult to explain on the basis of long term macrophage Fc receptor blockade and suggests an alternative mechanism of action.

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