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Originally Posted by Leung
Lisa, your sharing is useful. I wonder why your doctor doubled the dose in 2nd ATG. Isn’t it that there is a protocol, with the dosage somewhat calculated according to a patient’s body weight?
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He got the same daily dose, Leung, just over the course of twice as many days. I wish I knew who our doctor consulted with who advised him to do this (I asked the name of the doctor, but he couldn't remember at the time, saying only that he was a specialist "in the Midwest". Perhaps Dr. Maciejewski at Cleveland Clinc? Just a wild guess.) At any rate, the advice that he got was that for every repeat ATG treatment, the length of exposure should be increased for best results. Therefore, if he were to do it again, it would likely be for 15 days, etc. I have never heard any one else say this, but it seemed to work fairly well for us.