Nawaz Sharif diagnosed with acute ITP.

LAHORE -- Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's health condition is improving as his platelets count increased to 20,000 from 7,000 on Thursday, as doctors said that the senior political leader was diagnosed with immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), a disease that causes the breakdown of blood cells. Addressing reporters, Services Institute of Medical Sciences (SIMS) Principal Dr Mahmood Ayaz said that the bone marrow of the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo is 'completely functional'. He said that thrombocytopenia was a treatable disease. Earlier in the day, Dr Ayaz had said that Nawaz would be taken to the Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute (PKLI) and Research Centre for a PET (positron...

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