Caplacizumab Licensed For Use In Scotland
Fantastic news! I can share with you as of 2pm today the Scottish Medicines Consortium…
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TTPNetwork supports patients with the condition Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP).
We also support family, friends and medical staff. We are UK based but we have visitors from around the world.
On this site you will find information and sources of help for TTP, including documents to help when travelling abroad, links to best practice guidelines and the opportunity to make contact with others dealing with TTP.
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David’s Story
At first I thought I had a bad cold and sleeping a lot, and then getting chest pains and my urine was very dark. I went to my doctors seen the nurse practitioner she said it’s a cold and my chest pains were indigestion and my urine was because I was dehydrated. She gave me…
Caplacizumab Licensed For Use In Scotland
Fantastic news! I can share with you as of 2pm today the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) have announced that they have accepted the medicine: Caplacizumab through an expedited approach to minimise delay in patient access following the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. This means that Caplacizumab will be licensed for use in Scotland. Thank…
Different diseases but still linked – TTP and aHUS
It is not unheard of for someone with atypical Haemolytic Uremic Syndrome (aHUS) to have had an initial diagnosis of Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia Purpura (TTP). There is no statistic for how many have been misdiagnosed, just anecdotal evidence popping up over the years. Such misdiagnosis is often discovered when a patient receiving a kidney transplant presents…