Hi everyone, I am new to this forum my son was diagnosed with Aplastic anemia on the 25th of May 2014.from then to now it has been a shocking journey...he had to do two bone marrow aspirations..and his platelet counts drop to low 9
..he has to get a transfusion every 10 days as his counts get very low..the doctors did a HLA test on his sister and she is thank god a good match.after the results came we we're send to a bmt consultant who told us even thought the sister is a match we still have the medicine option as well and in his condition meds might work..so where considering ATG but went for a second opinion to a another BMT consultant who told us BMT is the only option as ATG won't cure SAA..now we are confused as ever in making a decision
My main question is can a child answer well to ATG? By the way my son is 8 years old.Do I need to go for the BMT?
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Fana,mother of asad age 8 diagnosed SAA 2014, trying to decide between ATG or BMT..decided on BMT and finally did it
