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Originally Posted by Deanna16
Thank you all this has been very helpful! Please keep posting I'm interested to hear more stories. Lisa, my doctors refer to the AA being autoimmune as a theory -- so I meant a definite autoimmune disease, but it's helpful to know that your doctors consider it that.
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I think that it is true that AA is considered autoimmune in theory but that treating it as such with immunosuppression has been successful in most cases, FWIW.
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Male, 56, dx Nov2006 VSAA (BMA:0%). Responded to ATG/CsA/Prednisone/Neupogen Dec 2006, but relapsed in June 2007. Counts are responding to using CsA 200mg bid alone since Jun 2008. Last PRBC tx: Jul 2008.
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