Current treatment guideline of ITP recommends corticosteroid as the first line treatment when patient has active bleeding or less than 30×10^9/L of platelet, because of side effect and cost issues. Since the first case report by Italian study, several investigators have reported that secondary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) can occur in patients with Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection. We already reported the efficacy of H. pylori eradication in moderate ITP patients with phase II study (Annals Hematology 2015:94:739-46). To improve the evidence of this strategy for the treatment of moderate ITP, we plan to start this multi-center, open label, prospective randomized phase 3 study.
The purpose of this study is to determine the efficacy of H. pylori eradication for the treatment of chronic or persistent immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) patients with moderate thrombocytopenia. This is a multi-center, open label, prospective randomized phase IIl study.