Best hospitals and doctors for MDS-Pediatric Myelodysplastic Syndrome in Kochi - Kerala, India

This is a rare disease of the blood, only occurring in four out of every 1 million children. It develops in the bone marrow.

Types:

1. Refractory cytopenia of childhood: It is less than 5 percent blasts in bone marrow.
2. Refractory anemia with excess blasts: It is 5 to 20 percent of blasts in the bone marrow.
3. RAEB in transformation: It is 21 to 30 percent of blasts in the bone marrow.