Drug-induced immune thrombocytopenia: Understanding the disease mechanisms is the key to better treatment

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1012409

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Many very commonly used medications cause an allergic reaction in a small number of patients that receive them. The allergic reaction results in platelets being destroyed and puts the patients at risk of bleeding. The patient recovers slowly if the drug is stopped but there is no other treatment and no way to reverse the effect quickly if the patient starts to bleed. This project will try to understand the mechanism of the condition and test a potential treatment.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2011

End Date: 01-01-2013

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $509,550.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Haematology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

antibody | antigen | blood disorders | cardiovascular abnormalities | drug toxicity | glycoproteins | platelets | thrombocytopenia

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