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Some good news!!!
Andy Battaglia:
Sharmin,
Genotyping of the blood is the main thing that can be done to prevent recurrence. It is still only poorly understood why autoimmune disorders occur and preventing and treating various autoimmune conditions is the object of much research. Dr Vichinsky has been heavily involved in this research as it concerns autoantibody reactions in thals. He should be able to give you some insight into the direction this is going. Ultimately, there is a hope that genotyping will join phenotyping for blood matching and incidence of autoantibody problems will be greatly reduced. I think you can probably take some hope in how well your son has reacted to the treatment. And of course, with fewer transfusions it does reduce the odds of a reaction just by lowering the amount of blood received and also does allow more time for matched blood to be found.
Zaini:
A good news indeed :biggrin Give a tight hug to your little soldier from me. :hugfriend
Zaini.
Sharmin:
Thank you my friends :hugfriend :hugfriend
nanuaru:
Hi little solider
ur such a brave fighter and your curage in taking all this pain really motivate me in fighting this disease. :hugfriend :grin i'm ready to kick out this agony and pain forever in my life and cutiepie would always be thankfull to this forum for support it has given us :bat
Lyanne:
:hugfriend Hope everything's is fine from now on....... Godbless and good health for you and your little angel! :hugfriend
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