ATG

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Related to antithymocyte globulin: cyclosporine, Atgam, antithymocyte globulin equine

ATG

GOST 7.67 Latin three-letter geocode for Antigua and Barbuda. The code is used for transactions to and from Antiguan and Barbudan bank accounts and for international shipping to Antigua and Barbuda. As with all GOST 7.67 codes, it is used primarily in Cyrillic alphabets.

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It can be used alone or in combination with methyl prednisolone or along with antithymocyte globulin.

FREQUENCY OF CURE WITH CYCLOSPORIN THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH APLASTIC ANEMIA

Systemic lupus erythematosis with severe aplastic anemia successfully treated with rituximab and antithymocyte globulin.

Systemic lupus erythematosis with severe aplastic anemia successfully treated with rituximab and antithymocyte globulin

Attempts to combine this with other immunosuppressive regimens, particularly antithymocyte globulin, were unsuccessful and further evaluation of this approach is awaited.

Aplasia versus pancytopenia, including the pure red cell variant

Antithymocyte globulin has limited efficacy and substantial toxicity in unselected anemic patients with myelodysplastic syndrome.

Guideline for the treatment of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) in South Africa

Maki and his colleagues recently found that an animal form of antithymocyte globulin reversed diabetes in mice more effectively when they added the drug exendin-4 to the treatment.

Antibodies counter diabetes: quick strikes against wayward immune cells

After French physicians began adding antithymocyte globulin (ATG) to the standard busulfan and cyclophosphamide regimen in 1992, none of the 57 children who received the treatment rejected their stem cell transplant.

Increasing sickle cell disease cures. (Add ATG to Stem Cells)

1) as compared with rabbit antithymocyte globulin for prophylaxis against rejection of renal allografts.

False increase in C-reactive protein attributable to heterophilic antibodies in two renal transplant patients treated with rabbit antilymphocyte globulin

She received alemtuzumab with her first allogeneic transplant and conditioning with antithymocyte globulin before her second transplant, resulting in significant in vivo T-cell depletion; she was also receiving adrenal corticosteroids.

Disseminated microsporidiosis in an immunosuppressed patient

Successful treatment of acquired amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenic purpura refractory to corticosteroids and intravenous immunoglobulin with antithymocyte globulin and cyclosporin.

Acquired pre megakaryocytic aplasia successfully treated with cyclosporine / Siklosporin ile basarili sekilde tedavi edilen kazanilmis saf megakaryositik aplazi

Patients were then immunoablated with a combination regimen of high-dose cyclophosphamide, a total of 200 mg/kg, along with equine antithymocyte globulin to eliminate T cells.

Stem cell transplantation may improve refractory SLE

Starzl Transplantation Institute treated 82 patients with rabbit antithymocyte globulin for T-cell depletion just before transplantation and with only 1 immunosuppressant after transplantation, rather than the usual 2- or 3-drug cocktail.

Starzl contends that posttransplant immunosuppression can be markedly reduced for some patients