[Immunosuppressive therapy for aplastic anemia--review]

Chong-Yan Xu1

  • 1Institute of Hematology, Hematologic Hospital, Union Medical University of China, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Tainjing 300020, China. xcysd@sohu.com

Immunosuppressive therapy (IST) is essential to treat aplastic anemia. The pharmacological mechanism, therapeutic effect of main drugs and their application method, reasonable dosage, synergistic action are briefly reviewed in this article. These reviewed drugs include ATG/ALG, CsA, ALG/ATG + CsA, IIST (ALG + CsA) + HGFs, McAb-T, HD-MP and HD-IVIG. The purpose of this review was to direct to clinical therapy for patients with aplastic anemia.