Notable posters
Courtesy Baylor College of Medicine
Dr. Iberia Romina Sosa
Iberia Romina Sosa, MD, PhD, of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, suggested several posters worth visiting in the areas of thrombosis and bleeding.
Poster 1134 looks at the TNF-alpha driven inflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction in the platelet hyperreactivity of aging and MPN.
How do you know if your therapy for thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura is working? Poster 3736 examines the measurement of cell-derived microparticles as a possible tool to monitor response to therapy.
You don’t have to be taking aspirin to have a bleeding profile characteristic with consumption of a cyclooxygenase inhibitor. Poster 1156 provides a first report of a platelet function disorder caused by autosomal recessive inheritance of PTGS1.
Poster 2477 takes a closer look at fitusiran, an antithrombin inhibitor, which improves thrombin generation in patients with hemophilia A or B. Protocol amendments for safety monitoring move fitusiran to phase 3 trials, Dr. Sosa said.