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Successful Treatment of Posttransplant Refractory Pure Red Cell Aplasia Following Parvovirus B19 Infection. [PDF]

Case Rep Med
Pure red cell aplasia (PRCA), a rare cause of anemia limited to the erythroid lineage, is characterized by normocytic normochromic anemia, severe reticulocytopenia, and markedly reduced or absent erythroid precursors in the bone marrow. We report a 44‐year‐old male with end‐stage renal disease (ESRD) secondary to autosomal dominant polycystic kidney ...
Ansara Y, Marouf O, Abualhumos K, AbuBaha M, Salameh H, Saadeddin H, Al-Sheikh M.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Novel Cases of Diamond Blackfan Anaemia in Two Nigerian Toddlers: Roadmap for Care in Resource-Limited Nations [PDF]

International Journal of Scientific Research in Dental and Medical Sciences, 2021
Diamond Blackfan anaemia (DBA) is a rare cause of anaemia in children. To the best of our knowledge, these are the first cases reported in Nigeria. Two toddlers with a history of recurrent anaemia, which started within the first three months of life ...
Thomas Ulasi, Chisom Nri-Ezedi, Ogochukwu Ofiaeli, Egbunike Chijioke   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Eculizumab as a Treatment for Hyper-Haemolytic and Aplastic Crisis in Sickle Cell Disease

European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2021
Background: Patients with sickle cell disease can experience various crises including sequestration crisis, haemolytic crisis and aplastic crisis. Due to alloantibody formation, transfusion alloantibodies can cause a haemolytic crisis. Treatment involves
Ishan Patel, Mihir Odak, Steven Douedi, Abbas Alshami, Vandan Upadhyaya, Mohammad Hossain, Madhurima Anne, Swapnil V Patel   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

DNA Methyl Transferase 3A (DNMT3A) Mutation Presenting as Isolated Pure Red Cell Aplasia

Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2022
Pure red cell aplasia (PRCA) is a rare disorder mainly affecting the erythroid precursor cells. It presents with severe isolated reticulocytopenia with relatively normal counts in the myeloid and megakaryocytic lineages.
Adarsh Sidda MD, Gurusidda Manu MD, Mohamed Alsharedi MD, Jennifer Dotson DO, Niru Nahar MD   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

THE SEROPOSITIVITY OF PARVOVIRUS B19 AMONG KIDNEY TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS

The Iraqi Journal of Medical Sciences, 2017
Background: Parvovirus B19 (PV-B19) is a single strand DNA virus that is responsible for causing several diseases in humans. Parvovirus B19 induced persistent anemia or/and pancytopenia or/and reticulocyteopenia in renal transplant recipients (RTRs ...
Zainab A. Hlail, Ahmed S. Abdulamir, Ali J.H. Al-Saedi   +2 more
doaj   +6 more sources

Pure red cell aplasia, a disease of a great diversity

Journal of Applied Hematology, 2020
Pure red cell aplasia (PRCA) is a type of normocytic or sometimes macrocytic anemia characterized by reticulocytopenia. The cause of hypo erythropoiesis is varied. It could be of a congenital or an acquired type.
Mona M Alfaraj, Hussain H Al Saeed
doaj   +1 more source

Idiopathic pure red cell aplasia: A case series from India

Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2023
Pure red cell aplasia (PRCA) is a rare hematologic disorder characterized by normocytic normochromic anemia with reticulocytopenia and depleted erythroid precursors. It is reported mainly from western countries.
Manoj U Mahajan , Sunil Goel , Harsh Patel , Aseem Aasdhir, Urvansh Mehta , Kavita Gupta , Shashi Sujanani , Jagdish Vishnoi , Nilesh Patira , Kalu Ram Sharma   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

SARS-CoV-2 infection evolving into aplastic anaemia: An unusual presentation of COVID-19 in the paediatric age group

Current Medicine Research and Practice, 2022
Aplastic anaemia can develop due to various viral infections. However, SARS-CoV-2 infection evolving into aplastic anaemia is rarely seen. Here, we present a case of a 6-year-old boy who presented with epistaxis and rashes all over the body after ...
Akanksha Bhatia, Vijay Kumar, Ankita Yadav   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pure red cell aplasia of the bone marrow in combination with thymoma. A literature review and own data

Терапевтический архив, 2019
Eight patients were observed with a rare combination of thymoma and pure red cell aplasia of bone marrow (PRCA), of which seven women were between 44 to 68 years old.
A A Petrenko, A V Pivnik, G A Dudina, M G Dubnitskaya   +3 more
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Reticulocytopenia and "absence" of red cell autoantibodies in immune haemolytic anaemia. [PDF]

BMJ, 1977
A raised reticulocyte count is common in patients with immune or autoimmune haemolytic anaemia, and the result of the direct antiglobulin test (DAGT) is usually positive because of IgG or IgG and complement components on the red cells. We report on three patients who had low reticulocyte counts when they were most anaemic, and in whom no red cell ...
U M, Hegde, E C, Gordon-Smith, S M, Worlledge   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources