Aplastic anemia

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Aplastic anemia is clinical syndrome, characterized by a hypoplastic bone marrow in the setting of pancytopenia. The pathogenesis of aplastic anemia is damage to the pluripotent stem cell reserves of the bone marrow.

Patterns of aplastic anemia include:

  • Hereditary
  • Drug-induced
  • Radiation
  • Infections
  • Idiopathic

Drugs and aplastic anemia

Radiation-induced aplastic anemia

Infection-induced aplastic anemia

Idiopathic aplastic anemia

Treatment