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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Inoue I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7136763 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Case reports in hematology 20200326
A 72-year-old man with a 10-year history of coronary heart disease started evolocumab treatment once a month after developing excess myalgia due to therapy with a 3-hydroxy-methylglutaryl CoA reductase inhibitor. No side effects such as myalgia symptoms had been reported during the first 14 months of evolocumab treatment; however, he suddenly presented with acute severe thrombocytopenia following the 14th treatment. His platelet count continued to decrease to a nadir of 1,000/<i>μ</i>L. His plat ...[more]