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To the Editor: In April 1993, my colleagues and I reported in the Journal our experience with combination chemotherapy as a treatment for patients with severe refractory immune thrombocytopenic purpura.¹ We now provide long-term follow-up data on the initial eight patients with immune thrombocytopenic purpura and on four additional patients (Table 1). All patients had severe disease with periodic mucosal bleeding, and in all splenectomy had failed, as had an average of five other therapies. Of the 12 patients treated, 5 had a complete remission (a normal platelet count) and 1 had a partial remission (a platelet count . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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