Previously healthy young woman who presents with heavy menstrual bleeding and easy bruisability found to have thrombocytopenia with bone marrow aspirate showing increased number of megakaryocytes, with platelet count responsive to prednisone, most consistent with idiopathic thrombocytopenia
Key idea: Immune thrombocytopenia caused by platelet antibodies and is often associated with a preceding viral infection
Impaired platelet production = Aplastic anemia = Pancytopenia
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