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Splenectomy
Hi Larsonec,
As mscrzy1 wrote ITP is a totally different disease - these patients probably have normal bone marrow but their platelets are destoyed often in the spleen.
Patients with Myelofibrosis (also another disease but related to our disease) and very big spleens can have their spleen removed. As I wrote before I have ever read anything about splenectomy in MDS patients.
There are MDS patients with hypocellular bone marrow even if hypercellular - as you wrote - is more common. I have had hypocellular bone marrow since dx 2006 probably due to very severe bone marrow fibrosis.
Kind regards
Birgitta-A
73 yo, dx MDS Interm-1 2006. Tx dependent from dx - Sept 2010 when I had been treated with Thalidomide + Prednisone since June 2010.
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