title: [Etiology and treatment of thrombocytopenia].
abstract: Thrombocytopenia has many causes. History, clinical examination of the patient, and a careful analysis of the peripheral blood smear may already lead to the etiology of cytopenia. The aim of the treatment is the correction of the underlying disease. In the management of immune thrombocytopenic purpura, the most common form of thrombocytopenia in adults, the goal is to avoid hemorrhages and not to increase the platelet value to normal.
authors.affiliation: Zentrum für Onkologie/Hämatologie und Transfusionsmedizin, Kantonsspital Aarau. mario.bargetzi@ksa.ch
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Bargetzi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006474:Hemorrhagic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D010976:Platelet Count; D011379:Prognosis; D016553:Purpura, Thrombocytopenic, Idiopathic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D012307:Risk Factors; D013921:Thrombocytopenia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy