bone marrow testing for ITP.

[dhwani]

if one has got bone marrow testing and biopsy done once after getting ITP in 2005 and all the results were normal , it is required to ever do it again?

[lc12345]

The test might be needed again if doctors would like to try new medication for treatment, e.g. eltrombopag or N-plate. In this case they would need to make sure there's no platelet destruction going on in bone marrow itself and also that bone marrow produces platelets fine.

[rharvin in reply to lc12345]

Hi,

Ive read that the nplate was helpful with itp. Do you know if thats true

[rjsmyth]

None of us are Doctors here but I would suspect it might be neccessary if blood tests were abnormal and you had been on something like Nplate for a long period of time.

[Lindylou86]

Hi not sure if it will be reassurring or not but my daughter had 3 bone marrow tests performed in the space of 1 year. So I think if the doctors deem it necessary then yes they would need to perform it again. Hope this helps.