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Old Mon Nov 7, 2016, 10:13 AM
Margaret W Margaret W is offline
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Welcome, lillianr. I'm sorry you've been diagnosed with this... It was 44 years ago today that I was diagnosed with AA, and I'm a year older than you.

I had equine ATG at age 37 in 1987, but it never really kicked in and so I'm considered an "ATG failure." Now they want to do rabbit ATG on me because I'm back in the "severe AA" range, but... We'll see.

I've never heard that one's age would undermine the effects of either type of ATG... And I've been evaluated by the folks at the NIH, Johns Hopkins, the Cleveland Clinic and now I've gone back to the University of Michigan, which is where I started out back in 1972.

Maybe someone else here has been through ATG for the first time at our age... Best wishes to you, and prayers for your course of treatment and recovery.

Margaret
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Margaret, SAA patient diagnosed 1972; ATG 1987; moderate AA for years; hep. C from transfusion 1987; now SAA is back.
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