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74-year-old male suffers from pancytopenia and symptomatic anemia. Bone marrow aspiration revealed some myelodysplasia, and the patient started immune therapy. He continues to require repeated blood transfusions. The expert recommends to complete the diagnostic workup. If no other disease is diagnosed than it can be assumed that the patient carries the diagnosis of MDS hypoplastic type. In this case, the therapeutic strategies include continuing the current RBC transfusion regimen, Immune suppressive treatment, and other therapeutic modalities such as erythropoietin injections, and oral thalidomide.