A rare cause of thrombocytopenia: Cyclic thrombocytopenia
Burcu Kurt1, Yağız Meriç Altun23, Neslihan Uslu1, Reyhan Diz-Küçükkaya1
1İstanbul Bilim Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, İç Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı, İstanbul, Türkiye
2İstanbul Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Enstitüsü DETAE İleri Nörolojik Birimler Doktora Programı, İstanbul, Türkiye
3İstanbul Bilim Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Hematoloji Bilim Dalı, İstanbul, Türkiye
Keywords: Cyclic thrombocytopenia; immune thrombocytopenia; neutropenia; thrombocytosis.
Abstract
Cyclic thrombocytopenia (CTP) is a rare disease with periodic fluctuations of platelet counts, which is characterized by a typical thrombocytopenia followed by a rebound thrombocytosis. As immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) and CTP shares similar traits, patients with CTP are often misdiagnosed with ITP. In this paper, we present a 45-year-old female CTP case who was previously diagnosed as ITP and admitted to our center since she had no response to ITP therapies.