Pregnancy Transiently Normalized Platelet Counts in Essential Thrombocytosis.

Authors

Shunsuke Homma, Satoshi Wakita, Masahiro Sakaguchi, Shunsuke Yui, Koiti Inokuchi, Hiroki Yamaguchi

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Journal of Nippon Medical School = Nippon Ika Daigaku zasshi. Volume 93. Issue 4. Pages 323-332.

Abstract

Outcomes of pregnancies complicated by essential thrombocytosis (ET) are worse than those of normal pregnancies. Aspirin, heparin, and interferon (IFN)-α are well-tolerated during pregnancy and prescribed in accordance with the risk of thrombosis. However, some evidence suggests that platelet count decreases during ET-complicated pregnancies.
We retrospectively analyzed changes in platelet count in ET-complicated pregnancies.
Platelet count decreased during pregnancy without IFN-α use, and 83% of pregnant women had a platelet count of ≤450×10⁹/L. Furthermore, all pregnant women achieved a platelet count of ≤600×10⁹/L. One the basis of revised IPSET-thrombosis score, risk was classified as low or very low. Aspirin use starting in early pregnancy was associated with a higher rate of successful delivery, even in patients with prior miscarriage.
These findings suggest that platelet counts decrease in selected low-risk and very-low-risk ET-complicated pregnancies and that cytoreductive therapy with IFN-α may be avoidable in some cases. These results should be interpreted cautiously because of the small sample size and retrospective study design.

PMID:
42649032
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 27 Aug 2026.

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