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Thymus?

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13 years 7 months ago #27901 by debrasla
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Has anyone here ever heard of your Thymus preventing platelets from working? If so, what do they do to investigate they Thymus to see if it is causing ITP?

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13 years 7 months ago #27907 by Ann
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If there was something wrong with the thymus gland you'd presumably have other symptoms. For example an overactive thymus causes myasthenia gravis, a thymoma (tumour) would cause pain and could be seen on a CT scan. What symptoms are you getting to make you think that the thymus is a problem?

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13 years 7 months ago #27969 by debrasla
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I just read on this site that they are finding the Thymus is preventing the platelets from working and wondered if anyone had heard of this also?

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13 years 7 months ago #27979 by Dean
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I did not know of this gland.

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