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What does "row" mean? 3 years 8 months ago #66599

karenr Offline Diagnosed in 2000, at 59, after being on moderately high doses of NSAIDs for arthritis. Splenectomy and rituxan both failed (2004). Did well on prednisone till summer 2018--then terrible reactions. Promacta since 11-19. Posts: 465 Thank you received: 58	I've noted some use of the term "row"--like "he's row 4." What does this mean?
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What does "row" mean? 3 years 8 months ago #66600

JJ Offline Posts: 224 Thank you received: 77	I can answer that. It's referring to the spreadsheet drawn up by Hal9000 showing his best guesses at which treatments work with which. He puts a link to it on his posts. The following user(s) said Thank You: karenr
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What does "row" mean? 3 years 8 months ago #66601

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karen, it's a reference to my ITP treatments table found on this page:
bottools.com/Hal/ItpTypes.html

Quick summary, row:
1 . . those that respond to steroids
2 . . those that don't respond to IVIG (alone)
3 . . those that have a 4-5 week response to IVIG
4 . . those that respond about a week to IVIG

The four treatment response rows is based off of this study which claims there are exactly four ITP antibodies - and no more:
"Autoantibodies to Thrombopoietin and the Thrombopoietin Receptor in Patients with Immune Thrombocytopenia"
www.bloodjournal.org/content/128/22/2548?sso-checked=true

Also of note. The first two rows are platelet 'destruction' problems. The second two rows are platelet 'production' problems.

ITP Types and Treatments by HAL

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What does "row" mean? 3 years 8 months ago #66620

karenr Offline Diagnosed in 2000, at 59, after being on moderately high doses of NSAIDs for arthritis. Splenectomy and rituxan both failed (2004). Did well on prednisone till summer 2018--then terrible reactions. Promacta since 11-19. Posts: 465 Thank you received: 58	Thank you. I'll have to study this info!
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