Aplastic anemia
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Initial therapy
Relapsed/Refractory
Eltrombopag (Promacta)
Regimen, Olnes et al. 2012; Desmond et al. 2013
Non-randomized
- Eltrombopag (Promacta) 50 mg PO once per day, increased by 25 mg every 2 weeks until platelet count > 20,000 per μL or maximum of 150 mg daily dose
References
- Olnes MJ, Scheinberg P, Calvo KR, Desmond R, Tang Y, Dumitriu B, Parikh AR, Soto S, Biancotto A, Feng X, Lozier J, Wu CO, Young NS, Dunbar CE. Eltrombopag and improved hematopoiesis in refractory aplastic anemia. N Engl J Med. 2012 Jul 5;367(1):11-9. Erratum in: N Engl J Med. 2012 Jul 19;367(3):284. link to original article contains verified protocol PubMed
- Update: Desmond R, Townsley DM, Dumitriu B, Olnes MJ, Scheinberg P, Bevans M, Parikh AR, Broder K, Calvo KR, Wu CO, Young NS, Dunbar CE. Eltrombopag restores trilineage hematopoiesis in refractory severe aplastic anemia that can be sustained on discontinuation of drug. Blood. 2014 Mar 20;123(12):1818-25. Epub 2013 Dec 17. link to original article contains verified protocol PubMed