Drug details

Nplate (romiplostim)

type of Thrombopoietic Agents

Nplate (romiplostim) is an Fc-peptide fusion protein (peptibody), a man-made form of a protein that increases production of platelets (blood-clotting cells) in the body, used to prevent bleeding episodes in people with chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), a bleeding condition caused by a lack of platelets in the blood. Nplate is usually given after other medications have been tried without successful treatment of symptoms.

This drug may have the following side effects:

• headache,
• dizziness,
• heartburn,
• abdominal pain,
• stomach upset,
• joint or muscle pain,
• trouble sleeping (insomnia), or
• tingling or numbness in hands or feet,
• pain in your arms/legs/shoulder