PETER A CASSILETH

Peripheral cytopenias are common in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes. We previously successfully treated three such patients with improvement of some cytopenias with the impeded androgen danazol. To confirm this finding and elucidate…

Platelet-associated IgG was markedly elevated in three patients with myelodysplasia and severe thrombocytopenia that had become refractory to platelet transfusions. The patients were treated with danazol because of its efficacy in treating …