title: Compensated thrombocytolytic state.
abstract: A patient with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), who was in a compensated thrombocytolytic state, remained asymptomatic, with normal platelet counts most of the time, but at various intervals had thrombocytopenia and bleeding disorder. Only when the platelet life-span normalized did the thrombocytopenia and bleeding tendency disappear. Patients with ITP who subsequently go into remission may still be at risk for bleeding diathesis if they are in a compensated thrombocytolytic state rather than in true remission.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001792:Blood Platelets; D002470:Cell Survival; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010976:Platelet Count; D011696:Purpura, Thrombocytopenic / Q000097:blood*