title: [Thrombocytopenic idiopathic purpura: predictive factors for chronic disease].
abstract: THE AIM of this study is to determine factors predicting development of chronic thrombocytopenic idiopathic purpura.
  
  
  METHODS
  It was a retrospective study, regarding the cases of PTI diagnosed in "service de medicine infantile C Hôpital d'Enfants de Tunis" during 11 years. A comparison was done between two groups: the first including acute PTI and the second including chronic and recurrent PTI. Factors predicting development of chronic disease were searched by the Fisher test which was significant when p < 0.05.
  
  
  RESULTS
  33 cases of PTI were diagnosed. The ratio sex was 1.06. The mean age was five years and a half. The disease onset was insidious in three cases; all of them have had a chronic course. An haemorrhagic personnel background was present in three cases. Counselling cause was always petechies and ecchymoses. The mean platelets rate was 14555.5/mm3. Therapeutics abstinence was carried out in five cases. 20 infants received an initial corticotherapy. The immunoglobulins were prescribed in nine cases, witch six associated to Corticotherapy. Three modes of outcome were discerned: acute PTI (n = 23), recurrent PTI (n = 4) and chronic PTI (n = 6). Factors predicting development of chronic disease were: haemorrhagic personnel background, an insidious disease onset and the failure of an initial therapeutic abstinence.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Acute PTI is the most common. The disease had a chronic or recurrent outcome in 1/3 of cases. The search after factors predicting chronic disease allows an early prognosis. Thus, a best management of the disease can be achieved.
authors.affiliation: Service de Médecine Infantile C, Hôdpital d'Enfants de Tunis -Jebbari Bab Saadoun-Tunis.
authors.forename: Sonia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mazigh Mrad
authors.forename: Monia
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ouedemi
authors.forename: Olfa
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Bouyahia
authors.forename: Lamia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gharsallah
authors.forename: Samir
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Boukthir
authors.forename: Azza Samoud
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Gharbi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016756:Immunoglobulins, Intravenous / Q000627:therapeutic use; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D016553:Purpura, Thrombocytopenic, Idiopathic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy*; D012189:Retrospective Studies
chemical_list: D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones; D016756:Immunoglobulins, Intravenous