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Long-term eltrombopag for bone marrow failure depletes iron (article)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35312200/

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/...1002/ajh.26543

A very interesting and useful article about the iron chelation effect of Promacta/eltrombopag. Particularly interested in this due to my mother having serious trouble tolerating Exjade but has maintained on Promacta, and has seen her ferritin levels drop.

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Originally Posted by mola-tecta (Post 54811)

So happy to hear this! :)

If I am not mistaken, it's just not the ferritin levels in the blood, but how much your cells absorb the iron? Promacta stops cells from absorbing iron.

I deeply appreciate your posting this.

Please take care.