Basic & Clinical Medicine ›› 2024, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (5): 719-723.doi: 10.16352/j.issn.1001-6325.2024.05.0719

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Research progress in the treatment of severe aplastic anemia

FU Chen, LI Ping*   

  1. School of Clinical Medicine, Shandong Second Medical University, Weifang 261053, China
  • Received:2023-07-03 Revised:2023-12-28 Online:2024-05-05 Published:2024-04-23
  • Contact: *alice022@163.com

Abstract: Severe aplastic anemia(SAA)is a critically ill disease of the blood system that progresses rapidly, has a high mortality rate, and a very poor prognosis. The application of drugs like androgens and Eltrombopag has significantly increased the survival rate of those with aplastic anemia (AA), compared with horse antithymocyte globulin(H-ATG) and cyclosporine, which was once the standard treatment. Patients who do not respond well to immunotherapy or experience a recurrence of symptoms post-treatment have the option to undergo hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). The advancement of pre-treatment techniques for HSCT and the utilization of diverse medications following the transplantation procedure have contributed to reduced incidence of graft versus-host disease (GVHD) and improved transplant success. Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation has become a hot topic in clinical research. This study summarizes the transplant and non transplant treatments of SAA in recent years, and analyzes its efficacy and related advantages and disadvantages.

Key words: severe aplastic anemia, immunosuppressive therapy, platelet receptor agonists, androgen, allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

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