Hi Carolyn,
It is easy to understand that it is difficult to stay positive with MDS at your age! Many of your results are very good.
“Haemodiluted” means diluted with blood – it is difficult to analyse the bone marrow when it is mixed with blood.
“Cytogenics normal” means no chromosome aberrations (very good
).
“Slightly hypocellular” means a little too few cells.
“Trilineage haematopoiesis” describes how the production of the three types of blood cells is functioning – red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.
“Disorganised erythropoiesis” means disorganised production of red blood cells.
“No excess blasts” means not more immature blood cells than normal (very important and good
).
“Dysmegakaryopoiesis” means that the megakaryocytes - the cells responsible for the production of platelets – don’t look quite normal.
“Reticulin grade 1” means that there are a little more fibers than normal.
They don’t mention the white blood cells – they are probably normal.
Hopefully your counts will continue to be OK for a long time!
Kind regards
Birgitta-A
Dx MDS May 2006 with severe fibrosis and very few cells. Asymptomatic with supportive treatment