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Treatment for aplastic anemia that 80% of patients respond to.
Immunosupressive: antityhmocyte glubulin, corticosteroids, cyclosporine.
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First line treatment for very young patients with aplastic anemia.
Hematopoetic stem cell transplant (higher mortality in older patients)
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Infection associated with pure red cell aplasia
Parvovirus B19
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Treatment when cause of pure red cell aplasia is unknown.
Immunosupressive: corticosteroids, cyclophosphamide, or cyclosporine.
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Charasteristics of Fanconi anemia.
Pancytopenia, hypocellular bone marrow, short stature, cafe-au-lait spots, thumb abnormalities.
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Drugs causing aplastic anemia.
ACEI's, antibiotics, amio, H2-blockers, HCTZ, NSAIDs, PTU
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Therapy that may induce complete remission for myelodysplastic syndromes.
Azacitidine and decitabine (pyrimidine nucleoside agents).
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What does Lenalidomide specificially treat?
5q-syndrome (most become transfusion dependend)
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Treatment for young patients with myelodysplastic syndrome.
Stem cell transplant from an HLA-matched sibling donor.
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