Therapy of Acquired Aplastic Anemia in Children
Authors:
J. Lukáč 1; J. Horáková 1; S. Šufliarska 1; I. Boďová 1; E. Hostýnová 2
Authors‘ workplace:
2. detská klinika Lekárskej fakulty Univerzity Komenského a Detskej fakultnej nemocnice s poliklinikou, Bratislava1 prednosta prof. MUDr. L. Kovács, DrSc. Hematologicko transfúziologické oddelenie Detskej fakultnej nemocnice s poliklinikou, Bratislava2 pr
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Čes-slov Pediat 2003; (12): 757-760.
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Overview
The paper evaluates the results of the treatment of patients suffering from acquired aplastic anemia. Tenchildren with median age of 12 years were treated with HLA 6/6 identical twin transplantation of hematopoieticelements. Twenty-one children with median age of 11 years were subjected to immunosuppressive therapy. Thesurvival in the group of transplanted patients is 80%. A relapse of the disease affected two patients afterimmunosuppressive therapy, survival in this group being 86%. None of the patients treated with either therapyhas been affected by a clonal hematological disease.
Key words:
acquired aplastic anemia, transplantation of hematopoietic cells, combined immunosuppressivetherapy
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Neonatology Paediatrics General practitioner for children and adolescentsArticle was published in
Czech-Slovak Pediatrics
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