Hopefully, your husband won't need this, but I heard about a new clinical trial using the drug eltrombopag for advanced MDS patients with low platelet count:
http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00903422
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55 yo female, dx 9/08, AA/hypo-MDS, subclinical PNH, ATG/CsA 12/08, partial response. small trisomy 6 clone, low-dose cyclosporine dependent
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