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Best to have the rash checked out by a dermatologist before jumping to any conclusions. It may be serum sickness, but Ken also developed a rash post-ATG, which our hem/onc suggested treating by increasing his prednisone dosage. We were wary of doing so, since he was having several bad side effects to the prednisone already, and the rash wasn't bothering his as much as some of them. We consulted our dermatologist, who immediately recognized the rash as yet another prednisone side effect. Sure enough, when we REDUCED his dosage, it went away. Imagine what would have happened had we increased it!
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-Lisa, husband Ken age 60 dx SAA 7/04, dx hypo MDS 1/06 w/finding of trisomy 8; 2 ATGs, partial remission, still using cyclosporine
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