aplastic anaemia

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Related to aplastic anaemia: megaloblastic anaemia

aplastic anaemia

Anaemia due to a failure in marrow production of RBCs, often accompanied by failure in WBC and platelet production (i.e., granulocytopaenia, thrombocytopaenia).

Aetiology
Toxins (benzene, toluene, insecticides), radiotherapy, drugs (carbamazepine, chemotherapy, chloramphenicol, gold salts, phenytoin, phenylbutazone, quinacrine, sulfonamides, tolbutamide), autoimmunity, SLE, post-hepatitis, pregnancy, paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria.

Prognosis
Aplastic anaemia is often unresponsive to specific therapy.

aplastic anaemia

A serious form of anaemia in which no new blood cells are formed in the bone marrow. About 30% of cases follow virus infections, especially MEASLES, MUMPS and HEPATITIS or are induced by drugs such as BUTAZOLIDINE, SULPHONAMIDES, CHLORAMPHENICOL or dipyrone. The condition results from damage to the haemopoietic stem cells often from an autoimmune process that can be checked by immunosuppressive drug treatment. Blood transfusions are often necessary to maintain life.

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Histopathological analysis of bone marrow trephine biopsy of 40 cases of pancytopenia revealed megaloblastic anaemia as the most common cause of pancytopenia (30%), followed by aplastic anaemia (25%) and hypersplenism (15%).

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ALL was the commonest cause of haematological thrombocytopenia followed by ITP and Aplastic anaemia, but low platelet count may occur in many other haematological conditions as well.

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