Effect of eradication of helicobacter pylori infection on the platelet counts in patients presenting with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura

ABSTRACT

Background: Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura [ITP] is a rare autoimmune disease characterized by the platelet destruction that is autoantibody mediated, and there is suboptimal platelet production in the absence of a known cause, this leads to decreased peripheral blood platelet counts or thrombocytopenia and Helicobacter pylori has direct association with ITP. The aim of this study was to see the platelet recovery in patients of ITP after the H. pylori infection eradication