Idiopathic severe aplastic anemia with a delayed response to immunosuppressive therapy: a case report

Bone marrow transplantation is the definitive treatment of severe aplastic anemia; however, with the absence of this option, combined immunosuppressive therapy with antithymocyte globulin (ATG) and cyclosporine A is used as a first‐line therapy. This case report highlights the possible delay in resp...

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Autores principales: Alzahrani, Nujood, Ashor, Nshwa, Fathi, Traji, Bukhari, Dania, Zaher, Galila
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5986045/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29881557
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1517
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author Alzahrani, Nujood
Ashor, Nshwa
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description Bone marrow transplantation is the definitive treatment of severe aplastic anemia; however, with the absence of this option, combined immunosuppressive therapy with antithymocyte globulin (ATG) and cyclosporine A is used as a first‐line therapy. This case report highlights the possible delay in response to ATG protocol in treating aplastic anemia.
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spelling pubmed-59860452018-06-07 Idiopathic severe aplastic anemia with a delayed response to immunosuppressive therapy: a case report Alzahrani, Nujood Ashor, Nshwa Fathi, Traji Bukhari, Dania Zaher, Galila Clin Case Rep Case Reports Bone marrow transplantation is the definitive treatment of severe aplastic anemia; however, with the absence of this option, combined immunosuppressive therapy with antithymocyte globulin (ATG) and cyclosporine A is used as a first‐line therapy. This case report highlights the possible delay in response to ATG protocol in treating aplastic anemia. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5986045/ /pubmed/29881557 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1517 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Idiopathic severe aplastic anemia with a delayed response to immunosuppressive therapy: a case report
title_full Idiopathic severe aplastic anemia with a delayed response to immunosuppressive therapy: a case report
title_fullStr Idiopathic severe aplastic anemia with a delayed response to immunosuppressive therapy: a case report
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title_short Idiopathic severe aplastic anemia with a delayed response to immunosuppressive therapy: a case report
title_sort idiopathic severe aplastic anemia with a delayed response to immunosuppressive therapy: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5986045/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29881557
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1517
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