ArticleCureus2025
Immune Thrombocytopenia in a 94-Year-Old Woman: Challenges in Diagnosis and Management of an Uncommon Presentation in the Elderly.
Article in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
We describe a unique case of a 94-year-old woman who presented to the emergency department with a large hematoma on her left lateral thigh following a fall. Laboratory workup revealed a platelet count of 10,000/μL, and incidentally, just a week prior to her presentation in the emergency department, her platelet count was 26,000/μL. After consultation with hematology/oncology, a diagnosis of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) was established, and she was given 40 mg dexamethasone, transfused with one unit of platelets, and initiated on intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG). She returned to the emergency department a week later due to severe fatigue and transient loss of consciousness following IVIG administration. This case highlights the complexities of diagnosing and managing ITP in elderly patients, emphasizing the need for individualized treatment strategies to balance efficacy and safety.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.