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Update
Hi all,
I finally have a trend of how the transfusion interval increases with weekly Eprex shots. While my mother was receiving Eprex 60,000 weekly in Oct & Nov 2013(8 weeks), transfusion interval increased from earlier 20-21 days to 28-30 days. As the increase was not very significant, Eprex was discontinued and the interval is back to 3 weeks now.
Can anyone please advise on whether it is worthwhile to have weekly high dose Eprex 60,000 to gain 8-10 days additional on transfusions. Both transfusions and eprex seem to have their own negatives.
I am yet to meet the hematologist after these readings.
Thanks for any suggestions and advice on this.
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Mother age 79, dx MDS RCMD low risk del 20q April 2013, no response to EPO, Danazol. pRBC tx dependent - 2 units every 3-4 weeks, exjade Dec 2013 - Mar2014, restarted Dec 2014
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