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Old Thu Mar 22, 2012, 12:12 AM
Hopeful Hopeful is offline
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Hi Susy and amberb,

The bone marrow is partly fluid and can be patchy (mosaic). This means that there will be variations between draws, and for some people, these variations can be quite drastic!

I had both a hypocellular and hypercellular marrow before diagnosis, depending on which BMB you were looking at - and some were taken only a couple weeks apart!

My expert doctor only looks at cell counts post-ATG. He doesn't advise looking at the marrow again unless things are changing for the worse. I know this view differs among doctors and some choose to more proactively look for negative changes before they show up in the blood.
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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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