The Efficacy and Safety of Huaiqihuang Granule in Children With Chronic Primary Immune Thrombocytopenia

Inclusion Criteria

• •1. Male or female, aged between 1 and 14 years (inclusive) ;
• •2. Is diagnosed as immune thrombocytopenia according to the criteria of ICD-10, i.e., platelet \< 100×109/L for at least two hematology tests with normal blood cell morphology; skin petechia, ecchymosis and (or) the clinical manifestations of mucosa and visceral hemorrhage; no splenomegaly; exclusion of other secondary thrombocytopenia, such as aplastic leukemia, aplastic anemia characterized by thrombocytopenia as the first hematologic abnormality, hereditary thrombocytopenia, thrombocytopenia secondary to other autoimmune diseases, infections or drugs etc...
• •3. Meet the diagnosis criteria for Qi Yin deficiency in traditional Chinese medicine;
• •4. Time since initial diagnosis of ITP until randomization is at least 12 month, i.e., course of disease ≥1 year;
• •5. Values of prothrombin time (PT/INR) and activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) are within 1.2 times of normal reference range;
• •6. Values of biochemistry parameters including creatinine, ALT, AST, glucose, total bilirubin are less than 1.2 time of the corresponding upper limit of normal range;
• •7. Has signed and dated the informed consent in volunteer by the subject and the subject's legal guardian(s) (for subject who is less than 8 years old, the informed consent will be signed and dated by the subject's legal guardian(s) in volunteer).