ISLAMABAD – Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif disease has been finallydiagnosed in latest medical tests.
Incarcerated former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)supremo Nawaz Sharif has been diagnosed with acute immune thrombocytopenicpurpura (ITP), an immune disorder that leads to an abrupt and sharp drop inblood platelets, according to a medical board treating him said on Thursday.
A doctor said the treatment has been started after the diagnosis wasconfirmed, adding that the ailment was treatable in Pakistan andintravenous treatment has commenced started.
“He does not have aplastic anaemia and his haemoglobin and WBC count arenormal. Platelets are low though,” the doctor said and added Sharif sbonemarrow was also functioning normally and is making blood as it shouldin addition to a normal level of reticulocytes.
The PML-N supremo was rushed to the Services Hospital from the NationalAccountability Bureau s Lahore office on Monday night after a massive dropin his platelet count.
Nawaz Sharif received transfusions of mega units of platelets at thehospital the next day. However, his condition deteriorated again onWednesday evening after the platelet count fell sharply to alife-threatening level of 7,000.——————————
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura is an immune disorder in which theblood doesn’t clot normally. This condition is now more commonly referredto as immune thrombocytopenia (ITP).