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A 20-year-old female asked:
What are the drugs used to treat thrombocytosis?
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Dr. Silviu Pasniciucanswered
Internal Medicine 29 years experience
Not treated: Most cases are reactive and the cause has to be addressed, specifically bleeding and inflammatory conditions, infectious or not infectious, most commonly. Even essential thrombocytemia which is affecting specifically thrombocytes is not treated unless platelet count hits 1 million.
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