Secondary Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura in a Patient with Metastatic Prostate Cancer
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https://doi.org/10.60591/crspmi.130Keywords:
Antineoplastic Agents/adverse effects, Bicalutamide/adverse effects, Prostatic Neoplasms, Purpura, Thrombocytopenic, IdiopathicAbstract
Prostate neoplasm is the second most prevalent in men and the sixth leading cause of death worldwide. Bicalutamide is a competitive androgen receptor antagonist used in combination in metastatic disease. The best known hematological iatrogenic effects are anemia, and there are also immune manifestations.
We present the case of a patient with a 10-year evolution of prostatic adenocarcinoma with radical prostatectomy and biochemical recurrence with 3 years of evolution and bone metastasis of the right femur, with no known bone marrow involvement, complying with triptorrelin and, more recently, for 5 months, bicalutamide. The patient presents with oral and lower limb petechiae as part of de novo thrombocytopenia (1 x 10^9/L platelets). Once the diagnosis of immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) was confirmed, probably secondary to bicalutamide, it was discontinued, and corticosteroid therapy was simultaneously introduced with a favorable response.
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