Jeremy W Jacobs, Caroline G Stanek, Garrett S Booth, Argiris Symeonidis, Andrew W Shih, Elizabeth S Allen, Eleni Gavriilaki, Brenda J Grossman, Katerina Pavenski, Amy Moorehead, Flora Peyvandi, Pasquale Agosti, Ilaria Mancini, Laura D Stephens, Jay S Raval, Maria Eva Mingot-Castellano, Elizabeth P Crowe, Laetitia Daou, Menaka Pai, Donald M Arnold, Marisa B Marques, Ryan Henrie, Tyler W Smith, Gayatri Sreenivasan, Rance C Siniard, Lisa R Wallace, Chisa Yamada, Miriam Andrea Duque, Yanyun Wu, Thomas J Harrington, Diana M Byrnes, Aikaterini Bitsani, Amanda K Davis, Danielle H Robinson, Quentin Eichbaum, Cristina A Figueroa Villalba, Justin E Juskewitch, Georgia Kaiafa, Eleni Kapsali, Ellen Klapper, Ingrid Perez-Alvarez, Monica S Klein, Nikolaos Kotsiou, Chrysavgi Lalayanni, Evdokia Mandala, Fatima Aldarweesh, Rahaf Alkhateb, Lisandro Fortuny, Zois Mellios, Apostolia Papalexandri, Meredith G Parsons, Annette J Schlueter, Christopher A Tormey, Cameron Wellard, Erica M Wood, Shiyang Jia, Allison P Wheeler, Amy A Powers, Christopher B Webb, Sean G Yates, Raïda Bouzid, Paul Coppo, Evan M Bloch, Brian D Adkins
Prior studies have suggested that immune thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (iTTP) may display seasonal variation; however, methodologic limitations and sample sizes have diminished the ability to perform a rigorous assessment. This 5-year retrospective study assessed the epidemiology of iTTP and determined whether it displays a seasonal pattern. Patients with both initial and relapsed iTTP (defined as a disintegrin and metalloprotease with thrombospondin type motifs 13 activity <10%) from 24 tertiary centers in Australia, Canada, France, Greece, Italy, Spain, and the US were included...
August 13, 2024: American Journal of Hematology