© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017Yoji Ishida and Yoshiaki Tomiyama (eds.)Autoimmune Thrombocytopenia　10.1007/978-981-10-4142-6_13 Steroids Toshiro Takafuta1   and Kingo Fujimura2   (1) Department of Clinical Research, Hiroshima-Nishi Medical Center, Hiroshima, Japan (2) Department of Nursing, Yasuda Women’s University,…

© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017Yoji Ishida and Yoshiaki Tomiyama (eds.)Autoimmune Thrombocytopenia　10.1007/978-981-10-4142-6_12 Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) Eradication Toshiro Takafuta1   and Kingo Fujimura2   (1) Department of Clinical Research, Hiroshima-Nishi Medical Center, Hiroshima, Japan (2) Department of…

Category Diseases and conditions Autoimmune diseases Systemic lupus erythematosus Anti-phospholipid syndrome Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) Mixed connective tissue disease Sjögren syndrome Hashimoto’s thyroiditis Lymphoproliferative diseases Chronic lymphocytic leukemia Hodgkin’s disease Non-Hodgkin’s…

© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017Yoji Ishida and Yoshiaki Tomiyama (eds.)Autoimmune Thrombocytopenia　10.1007/978-981-10-4142-6_1 History of Immune Thrombocytopenia Yoji Ishida1   (1) Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine,…

Fig. 1 Age- and gender-specific incidence of ITP per 100,000 population (Adapted from the study by Kurata et al. [3]) The natural history of ITP is different between children and…

Fig. 1 A schematic model representing the continuous pathogenic loop of ITP, which is carried out by macrophages in the reticuloendothelial system, antibody-producing B cells, and a variety of autoreactive…