title: Treatment of aplastic anemia with immunosuppressive agents.
abstract: 184 cases of aplastic anemia were treated by various immunosuppressive agents. 25.1% of the 35 patients with moderately severe aplastic anemia showed a hematological response to bolus methylprednisolone m PSL treatment. 9.6% of 73, 16.9% of 65 and 42.9% of 14 cases with severe aplastic anemia responded to m PSL, anti-lymphocyte globulin and anti-thymocyte globulin treatment, respectively. There was no difference in the survival of these severe aplastic anemia patients, however, which were prolonged invariably by treatment with each of these immunosuppressive agents. No correlation was observed between the in vitro increase of hematopoietic cell colony growth of the patient's bone marrow and clinical response to the immunosuppressive agents.
authors.affiliation: Third Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Takaku
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000728:Androgens / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000741:Anemia, Aplastic / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000276:immunology / Q000628:therapy*; D000961:Antilymphocyte Serum / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003114:Colony-Forming Units Assay; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D006801:Humans; D006854:Hydrocortisone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D007165:Immunosuppression Therapy; D007223:Infant; D008775:Methylprednisolone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008875:Middle Aged
chemical_list: D000728:Androgens; D000961:Antilymphocyte Serum; D006854:Hydrocortisone; D008775:Methylprednisolone