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Old Sun Jun 30, 2013, 05:14 AM
Birgitta-A Birgitta-A is offline
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Hemolysis

Hi Chirley,
Very nice with room service - we don't have that but I always bring something to eat and drink during the tx.

I think I have hemolysis of both my own blood and of the donated blood.

Autoimmune diseases are common in MDS patients. Ten to 20 % have autoimmune diseases like lupus, autoantibodies and hemolytic anemia. The autoimmunity is believed to be triggered by increased programmed cell death in the dysplastic bone marrow.

I don't know if autoimmunity can cause bone marrow fibrosis - that symptom is not mentioned in any article I have read though they list a lot of autoimmune diseases.

They don't write that the increased programmed cell death in the bone marrow will lead to fibrosis but I think that it can be one explanation for the fibrosis.

Hope your HGB will hold so you don't need txs so often!
Kind regards
Birgitta-A
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