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Originally Posted by Brendan
You might be right that I was VSAA; to be honest I didn't know there was a VSAA versus SAA distinction. My doc referred to my initial diagnosis as severe a few years back, and I just ran with that.
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The distinction is merely for categorizing patients based on their absolute neutrophil count. If your ANC fluctuated above and below 200 then you were technically SAA one day and VSAA another. If it stayed between 200 and 500 then by the book you were consistently SAA. But the cutoff points are just arbitrary dividing points between the risk levels.