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Old Tue Mar 13, 2012, 04:36 PM
amberb amberb is offline
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bone marrow improved, blood counts not...

I had my second coarse of ATG in Jan, first was in July of 2011. Before repeating the ATG I had a bone marrow biopsy to make sure there were no malignant cells, which there weren't. But what confused me was the dr told me the cellularity of my bone marrow went from less than 20% to 80% with the first ATG. Even though the biopsy shows I'm producing blood, it's not showing in my labs. My platelets still hover in the 20s and my wbc around 1.0. Now I've had the second ATG and they are about the same. They still can't explain why my bone marrow looked relatively healthy but I'm not. They did an ultrasound of my spleen to see if it was the cause, but it was fine. Has anyone else experienced the same with the bone marrow cellularity increasing but blood counts not?
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Amber, age 24, diagnosed w/ SAA and treated w/ horse ATG 7/11, rabbit ATG 1/12, on cyclosporine. Started Desferal infusion for iron overload 7/12.
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