DITP Publications

1. Initial systematic review, with methodology of article selection and assessment. The data are updated every 2 years and are presented in the databases of single patient reports and group patient reports: 
   • George JN, Raskob GE, Shah SR, Rizvi MA, Hamilton SA, Osborne S, Vondracek T: Drug-induced thrombocytopenia: A systematic review of published case reports. Ann Int Med 129:886-890, 1998. [Full Text]
2. DITP in Children:
   • Reese JA, Nguyen L, Buchanan GR, Curtis BR, Terrell DR, Vesely SK, George JN. Drug-induced thrombocytopenia in children.  Pediatric Blood & Cancer 2013; 60 (12): 1975-1981
3. Diagnosis of DITP:
   • Arnold DM, Nazi I, Warkentin T, Smith J, Toltl L, George JN, Kelton JG. Approach to the diagnosis and management of drug-induced immune thrombocytopenia. Transfusion Medicine Reviews  2013; 27 (3): 137-145
   • Rousan T, Aldoss IT, Cowley BD, Curtis BR, Bougie DW, Aster RH, George JN.  Recurrent acute thrombocytopenia in the hospitalized patient: sepsis, DIC, HIT, or antibiotic-induced thrombocytopenia.  Amer J Hematol  85 (1): 71-74, 2010
   • Arnold DM, Kukaswadia A, Nazi I, Esmail A, Dewar L, Smith JW, Warkentin TE, kelton JG. A systematic evaluation of laboratory testing for drug-induced immune thrombocytopenia. J Thromb Haemost; 11:169-76.
4. Quinine-induced thrombocytopenia can be very difficult to diagnose, because patients may assume their doctor is not interested in such a common medicine taken only occasionally. The subject of this report tells his story here in “Calvin’s Story”.
   • Kojouri K, Perdue JJ, George, JN: Occult quinine-induced thrombocytopenia. J Oklahoma State Med Assoc 93:519-521, 2000.
5. Systematic review of thrombocytopenia associated with complementary and alternative medicines, herbal remedies, nutritional supplements, foods, and beverages:
   • Royer DJ, George JN, Terrell DR. Thrombocytopenia as an adverse effect of complementary and alternative medicines, herbal remedies, nutritional supplements, foods, and beverages. Eur J Haematol. 2010 May; 84(5): 421-9. [Full Text]
6. Comparison of identification of drugs associated with thrombocytopenia by (1) literature review, (2) detection of drug-dependent antibodies, (3) data mining of the FDA's adverse event reporting system database.
   • Reese JA, Li X, Hauben M, Aster RH, Bougie DW, Curtis BR, George JN, Vesely SK. Identifying drugs that cause acute thrombocytopenia: an analysis using three distinct methods. Blood, 1st edition posted June 8, 2010. [Full Text] [Supplemental Table]