Response to the Comment by Cirasino L and Semeraro S: "Need to direct immune thrombocytopenia therapy towards shared goals" Direct and indirect comparisons to determine the first choice for newly diagnosed primary immune thrombocytopenia in adults
1 Department of Hematology and Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan.
2 Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
3 Department of Hematology and Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan tadakazu@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp.