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Old Fri Aug 7, 2009, 05:26 AM
Birgitta-A Birgitta-A is offline
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Complete remission during about 100 months

Hi Neil,
Professor Eva Lindberg-Hellström told us that they had very few patients, who had been treated with Antithymocyte globulin and cyclosporine A and had no symptoms during many years.

The reseachers reported about one patient of 20 with RA who still was in complete remission at 42 or 58 months. This article was received by the journal 2005 and the patient now can have been free from symptoms 42 or 58 + 48 months which means 90 or 106 months (7 or almost 9 years).
http://www.haematologica.org/cgi/reprint/91/5/667

Then I have read about a few patients treated with Revlimid who had been free from symptoms more than 7 years but these patients still get the drug as far as I understand.

MDS are many very complicated diseases and the patients that respond well to ATG and cyclosporin A are on the border to AA - perhaps their dx is unclear from start.
Kind regards
Birgitta-A
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