burnttoast Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 Our girl is just being released today from 3 days in the hospital with ITP. Her platelets were at 6k when we caught it. She seems to be responding to the steroids and her platelets were up to 70k today, so she gets to come home. Looking for any others who recovered from it. They said there is about a 10-20% chance of recurrence. Anyone else have experience with this? I have so many questions. She is only 3, which seems so young for this to have occurred. This was determined to be "non associative" / idiopathic, meaning they didn't find an underlying cause for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 Thank goodness you caught it! Has she had a 4DX test recently? Could be due to a tick-borne disease: https://www.mspca.org/angell_services/immune-mediated-thrombocytopenia-itp-in-dogs/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burnttoast Posted June 18, 2023 Author Share Posted June 18, 2023 Yes, that was one of the first tests they gave her. She tested negative for everything tick borne. So they are saying this is "non associative." That makes me nervous, as whatever triggered it could happen again. Thanks for the link. She had some persistent hookworm when we first adopted her. But since then she's been very healthy and wasn't on any meds, other than monthly Simparica trio. It was a fluke that we even found out when we did. We took her in in preparation for her dental and they did a routine blood test and saw the platelets were at 6k, the day we got the results we started noticing some bruising on her belly and we were sent right away to the vet hospital at Michigan State. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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