Severe aplastic anaemia - Complete response to antilymphocyte globulin andcyclosporin

Severe aplastic anaemia is uniformly fatal unless treated with immunosuppre ssive therapy or bone marrow transplantation The fatter is curative in 65% of patients and is the treatment of choice in children and young adults. An tilymphocyte globulin (ALG) and cyclosporin may be used successfully in the absence of an HLA marched sibling donor We report the case of a twelve-yea r-old boy with severe aplastic anaemia who received immunosuppressive treat ment with ALG and cyclosporin and is alive and well three years and sh mont hs post treatment.