The FDA approved Romiplostim — an injection that treats adult chronic ITP.
They replaced splenectomies as the best remedy option.
Paul Kaznelson, a Polish medical student, contributed to the first successful therapy for ITP.
Investigators began to link purpura, a rash of purple spots made of small blood vessels that leak blood into various parts of the body, with platelet count abnormalities.
Paul Gottlieb Werlhof, a German physician and poet, wrote the most thorough explanation of the purpura of ITP.
