Experience with subcutaneous immunoglobulin therapy in two pediatric cases of immune thrombocytopenia purpura
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Background Immune thrombocytopenia purpura (ITP) can co-exist with primary immunodeficiencies. Intravenous immunoglobulin (IGIV) therapy is an effective treatment. Subcutaneous immunoglobulin (SCIG) formulations that can be home-delivered have recently been developed. We describe 2 cases of pediatric ITP associated with hypogammaglobulinemia, treated with SCIG. Case description Case 1 A 14-year old male presented with a symptomatic thrombopenia. Infusions of IGIV led to an immediate improvement in platelet count. However, he experienced post-infusion intractable headaches, nausea and vomiting, which recurred after subsequent infusions. Intravenous anti-D therapy resulted in a severe allergic reaction. Short course prednisone protocol was implemented for symptomatic episodes. Preliminary blood work for splenectomy revealed low IgG level. The patient was put on SCIG replacement therapy (116 mg/kg/week). He experienced only one relapse since, which remained corticoresponsive. Case 2
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".