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A Sudden Onset of Severe Thrombocytopenia While Using Evolocumab.


ABSTRACT: 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/?L. His platelet-associated immunoglobulin G level had elevated to 790?ng/107?cells. He started receiving a combination of steroid therapy, high-dose immunoglobulin therapy, and platelet transfusions, but the first-line therapy was ineffective. He was subsequently treated with a thrombopoietin receptor agonist, and his platelet count recovered to 250,000/?L.

SUBMITTER: Inoue I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7136763 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A Sudden Onset of Severe Thrombocytopenia While Using Evolocumab.

Inoue Ikuo I   Takenaka Yasuhiro Y   Kin Yoshitora Y   Yamazaki Satoshi S   Ikegami Yuichi Y   Saito Daigo D   Shimada Akira A  

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]

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