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Pure Red Cell Aplasia and Carcinoma [PDF]

Blood, 1971
Abstract A patient presented with pure red cell aplasia, which responded to corticosteroids. Thirteen months later, a malignant pleural effusion developed, with subsequent death from adenocarcinomatosis. The reports of cases in which pure red cell aplasia has been associated with carcinomata are reviewed.
A B, Mitchell, G, Pinn, G D, Pegrum
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Pure red cell aplasia secondary to rheumatoid arthritis: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2021
Background Rheumatoid arthritis is a common autoimmune disease with many extra-articular manifestations. Pure red cell aplasia is a rare manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis and is sparsely documented in the literature, with a variable clinical outcome ...
Suneth Weerasinghe, Parackrama Karunathilake, Udaya Ralapanawa, Thilak Jayalath, Shamali Abeygunawardena, Manel Rathnayaka   +5 more
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Pure Red Cell Aplasia [PDF]

Blood, 2016
AbstractPure red cell aplasia (PRCA) is a syndrome defined by a normocytic normochromic anemia with severe reticulocytopenia and marked reduction or absence of erythroid precursors from the bone marrow. Diamond-Blackfan anemia is a congenital form of PRCA.
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Long-term responses and outcomes following immunosuppressive therapy in large granular lymphocyte leukemia-associated pure red cell aplasia: a Nationwide Cohort Study in Japan for the PRCA Collaborative Study Group

Haematologica, 2008
Large granular lymphocyte leukemia-associated pure red cell aplasia accounts for a significant portion of secondary pure red cell aplasia cases. However, because of its rarity, long-term responses and relapse rates after immunosuppressive therapy are ...
Naohito Fujishima, Ken-ichi Sawada, Makoto Hirokawa, Kazuo Oshimi, Koichi Sugimoto, Akira Matsuda, Masanao Teramura, Masamitsu Karasawa, Ayako Arai, Yuji Yonemura, Shinji Nakao, Akio Urabe, Mitsuhiro Omine, Keiya Ozawa   +13 more
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Pure red cell aplasia and seronegative myasthenia gravis in association with thymoma

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2020
Pure red cell aplasia is an uncommon paraneoplastic syndrome of thymoma. Myasthenia gravis is the most common paraneoplastic syndrome associated with thymoma. We present a case of a 79-year-old Pacific Islander female who presented with profound fatigue,
Sun Yong Lee, Amandeep Gill, Syung Min Jung   +2 more
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Prevention of pure red cell aplasia after major or bidirectional ABO blood group incompatible hematopoietic stem cell transplantation by pretransplant reduction of host anti-donor isoagglutinins

Haematologica, 2009
Background Persistent anti-donor isoagglutinins after major ABO blood group incompatible hematopoietic stem cell transplantation may cause delayed red blood cell engraftment and post-transplant pure red cell aplasia.Design and Methods We investigated the
Georg Stussi, Jörg Halter, Eveline Bucheli, Piero V. Valli, Lutz Seebach, Jürg Gmür, Alois Gratwohl, Urs Schanz, Jakob R. Passweg, Jörg D. Seebach   +9 more
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Management of thymoma‐associated pure red cell aplasia: A novel use of blood substitute HBOC‐201 in a Jehovah’s Witness

Clinical Case Reports, 2020
Pure red cell aplasia (PRCA) is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome occasionally associated with thymomas. Here, we report on the first ever use of a bovine hemoglobin‐based oxygen carrier, HBOC‐201 (HbO2 Therapeutics LLC; Hemopure®, Waltham, MA) for the ...
Maria M. Rubinstein, Cheryl Goss, Scott T. Avecilla, Gregory P. Dubé, Gregory J. Riely, Jodi V. Mones   +5 more
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Emtricitabine-induced pure red cell aplasia

Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 2019
Introduction: Anemia is common in HIV. Parvo B19 infection is a well-recognised cause of red cell aplasia. Other causes of persistent pure red cell aplasia (PRCA) include anti-retroviral drugs such as zidovudine and lamivudine. We describe a case of PRCA
Nithendra Manickchund, Camille du Plessis, Melanie-Anne A. John, Thandekile C. Manzini, Bernadett I. Gosnell, Richard J. Lessells, Yunus S. Moosa   +6 more
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Rituximab therapy for pure red cell aplasia due to anti-epoetin antibodies in a woman treated with epoetin-alfa: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2009
Introduction Pure red cell aplasia due to anti-epoetin antibodies is a known complication of epoetin therapy for anemia due to chronic kidney disease. This disease has not previously been well described in the setting of therapy for chronic hepatitis C ...
Behler Caroline M, Terrault Norah A, Etzell Joan E, Damon Lloyd E   +3 more
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Acquired pure red cell aplasia after severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 infection: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2022
Background Coronavirus disease 2019, caused by severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2, has been responsible, since December 2019, for a severe pandemic resulting in millions of deaths worldwide, and the number is still increasing.
Imane Karrat, Hicham Eddou
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