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Definition
Platelet count < 150 × 109/L.
Evaluation
May consist of:
- CBC with differential
- Comprehensive metabolic panel, including liver function tests (LFTs)
- Vitamin B12
- Folate
- Assessment for liver disease, hepatomegaly, fatty liver, splenomegaly
- Peripheral smear, platelet clumps
- Clinical history (bleeding, temporality, recent infections), TTP/HUS
- Thrombotic history (e.g. heparin/HIT)
- Lifestyle factors (e.g. alcohol)
- Medications
- Hepatitis serologies
- HIV
- ANA, lupus
- Pseudothrombocytopenia, EDTA-induced clumping (draw sample in blue top citrate tube)
- Pregnancy/gestational thrombocytopenia
- ITP