What is G/CSF therapy?
This is a new therapy that I know very little about but I am noting it here for completeness. In the US it is being trialled by Dr Braverman in New York http://www.reproductiveimmunology.com/amazing-new-treatment-for-recurrent-misciarrages-and-failed-ivf-neupogenc-gsf/ and small clinical trials have been published by doctors in Rome http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/712831 (you may have to register for medscape to read the article) and Munich http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/8/2151.full. So far, the published trials have centred on women who either suffer from severe chronic neutropenia (immunosuppression due to not having enough neutrophils (a type of white blood cell)), or who have either failed to respond to IVIG or according to a test for immunoglobulin receptors on their NK cells appear unlikely to respond to IVIG. G-CSF is a natural cytokine (chemical messenger) which is normally found in the body. Higher levels of G-CSF seem to be found in follicles which go on to p
