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Hmmmm...
According to Dr. Scheinberg at NIH. And I am paraphrasing from one of his webinars...
Once someone responds to ATG, they have about a 50% chance of never having to deal with the disease again. Sure, maybe some tweaking here and there with the cyclosporine, but nothing major. This is what the long term data at the NIH point to. Others have relapses and clonal evolution.
Also, AA survivors do not have the reserves that normal patients do...therefore you can get some big swings in your counts compared to "normal" people.
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Ryan Jay: 38-yo, dx SAA: 7/25/10, ATG: 8/10/10. CR with counts still rising. HGB: 13, Plt: 137 WBC 5.1 ANC
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