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Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
Anemia, Aplastic
Sections: Key Features, Essentials of Diagnosis, General Considerations, Causes of aplastic anemia, Clinical Findings, Symptoms and Signs, Differential Diagnosis, Diagnosis, Laboratory Tests, Diagnostic Procedures, Treatment, Medications, Therapeutic Procedures, Outcome, Complications, Prognosis, When to Refer, When to Admit, References,
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Topics Discussed: aplastic anemia.
Excerpt: | |  "Idiopathic" (probably autoimmune)
In some cases of idiopathic aplastic anemia, defects in maintenance of the hematopoietic stem cell telomere length have been identified | | – Likely linked to initiation of marrow failure – May be associated with progression to myelodysplasia, paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), or acute myeloid leukemia |
Drugs | | – Chloramphenicol – Phenylbutazone – Gold salts – Sulfonamides – Phenytoin – Carbamazepine – Quinacrine – Tolbutamide |
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