Treatment strategies for patients with severe aplastic anemia

• Published in: Bone marrow transplantation (Basingstoke) Vol. 42; no. S1; pp. S42 - S44
• Main Author: Bacigalupo, A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.08.2008; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: Adults; Anemia; Anemia, Aplastic - therapy; Aplasia; Aplastic anemia; Bone marrow; Bone Marrow Transplantation; Care and treatment; Cell Biology; Children; Health aspects; Hematology; Histocompatibility Testing; Humans; Immunosuppression; Immunosuppressive agents; Immunosuppressive Agents - therapeutic use; Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins - therapeutic use; Internal Medicine; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Patients; Physiological aspects; Public Health; review; Stem cell transplantation; Stem Cells; Survival; Transplantation; Italy; hematopoietic SCT; aplastic anemia; bone marrow aplasia

Treatment strategies for patients with severe aplastic anemia (SAA), depend on the severity of the disease, the age of the patient and the availability of a family donor. Progress in the past has included the early use of combined immunosuppressive therapy (IST) and better matching strategies to sel...