What are your indications for pursuing a rheumatologic workup in a pediatric patient with ITP?
If so, what additional testing do you send?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
In regard to pediatric ITP patients and a rheumatologic workup, first, there is no data comparing pediatric ITP patients of all ages and both genders as to the exact rates of positivity and the implications of the positivity in any group.
Having said that, there is some consensus that adolescent fe...