CANINE IMMUNE-MEDIATED THROMBOCYTOPENIA .3.

Canine immune-mediated thrombocytopenia (IMT) is often a diagnostic an d therapeutic challenge. The condition should be suspected in dogs wit h isolated thrombocytopenia, increased thrombopoiesis, and a lack of e vidence of hemostatic abnormalities or nonimmunologic platelet sequest ration consumption, or destruction. A tentative diagnosis can be confi rmed by measuring antiplatelet (preferably platelet-associated) antibo dy levels. Concurrent vaccinations, medications, or systemic diseases may suggest secondary IMT.