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Do corticosteroids help thrombocytopenia?
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Sometimes: Corticosteroids are used as a treatment for this condition when the cause is immune destruction of platelets such as itp or drug-induced low platelets. In other cases steroids may be of not much help.
Answered 2/27/2013
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