Efficacy of Dexamethasone for Acute Primary Immune Thrombocytopenia Compared to Prednisolone: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

TH Open · 2017 · PMC6524842 · PMID 31249913

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On the other hand, three studies using Dex monotherapy (only one course of Dex; additional courses of Dex were administered only to nonresponders) 8 9 10 showed inferior SR incidence compared with that of PSL with borderline significance ( N = 437; RR, 0.80; 95% CI, 0.62–1.03; p = 0.08; Fig. 1b ).

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