aplastic anemia and related bone marrow failure syndromes

... Diagnosis of Pancytopenia Pancytopenia with Hypocellular Bone Marrow Acquired aplastic anemia Constitutional aplastic anemia (Fanconi's anemia, dyskeratosis congenita) Some myelodysplasia Rare ... aleukemic leukemia (AML) Some acute lymphoid leukemia Some lymphomas of bone marrow Pancytopenia with Cellular Bone Marrow Primary bone marrow diseases Secondary to systemic diseases Myelodysplasia Systemic ... or due to splenomegaly), and granulocytes (as in the immune leukopenias) Hematopoietic failure syndromes are classified by dominant morphologic features of the bone marrow (Table 102-1) While...

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... Table 102-2 Classification of Aplastic Anemia and Single Cytopenias Acquired Inherited Aplastic Anemia Secondary Fanconi's anemia Radiation Dyskeratosis congenita Drugs and chemicals Shwachman-Diamond ... acquired aplastic anemia in Europe and Israel is two cases per million persons annually In Thailand and China, rates of five to seven per million have been established In general, men and women ... distribution is biphasic, with the major peak in the teens and twenties and a second rise in the elderly Etiology The origins of aplastic anemia have been inferred from several recurring clinical...

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... is a notorious cause of bone marrow failure Vast quantities of epidemiologic, clinical, and laboratory data link benzene to aplastic anemia, acute leukemia, and blood and marrow abnormalities The ... disease, to but a handful of drug-induced aplastic anemia cases among hundreds of thousands of exposed persons Table 102-3 Some Drugs and Chemicals Associated with Aplastic Anemia Agents that ... normal diet and in the environment The association between marrow failure and other chemicals is much less well substantiated Drugs (Table 102-3) Many chemotherapeutic drugs have marrow suppression...

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... (Chap 316) Pancytopenia with marrow hypoplasia can also occur in systemic lupus erythematosus Pregnancy Aplastic anemia very rarely may occur and recur during pregnancy and resolve with delivery ... detected in about half of patients with aplastic anemia at the time of presentation [and PNH cells are also seen in MDS (see below)]; frank hemolysis and thrombotic episodes occur in patients ... especially younger individuals, may later develop frank marrow aplasia and pancytopenia; patients with an initial diagnosis of aplastic anemia may suffer from hemolytic PNH years after recovery...

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... Normal bone marrow biopsy B Normal bone marrow aspirate smear The marrow is normally 30–70% cellular, and there is a heterogeneous mix of myeloid, erythroid, and lymphoid cells C Aplastic anemia ... of patients with aplastic anemia, and mutations in genes of the telomere repair complex (TERC and TERT) can be identified in some adults with apparently acquired marrow failure and without physical ... lymphoid cells C Aplastic anemia biopsy D Marrow smear in aplastic anemia The marrow shows replacement of hematopoietic tissue by fat and only residual stromal and lymphoid cells An intrinsic stem...

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... a few weeks Lymphadenopathy and splenomegaly are highly atypical of aplastic anemia Café au lait spots and short stature suggest Fanconi's anemia; peculiar nails and leukoplakia suggest dyskeratosis ... of activated T cells to bone marrow and local production of their soluble factors are probably important in stem cell destruction Early immune system events in aplastic anemia are not well understood ... of aplastic anemia is the restriction of symptoms to the hematologic system, and patients often feel and look remarkably well despite drastically reduced blood counts Systemic complaints and...

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... The diagnosis of aplastic anemia is usually straightforward, based on the combination of pancytopenia with a fatty, empty bone marrow Aplastic anemia is a disease of the young and should be a ... children and younger adults to exclude Fanconi's anemia Genetic analysis applicable to the constitutional marrow failure states is available in some laboratories Chromosome studies of bone marrow ... blood lines, sometimes showing later progression to more recognizable aplastic anemia The bone marrow in constitutional aplastic anemia is indistinguishable morphologically from the aspirate in acquired...

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... generally be made at the time of presentation of aplastic anemia by flow cytometry; recovered patients may have frank hemolysis if the PNH clone expands Bone marrow examinations should be performed if ... recommended) Most patients with aplastic anemia lack a suitable marrow donor, and immunosuppression is the treatment of choice Overall survival is equivalent with transplantation and immunosuppression ... cures marrow failure, while patients who recover adequate blood counts after immunosuppression remain at risk of relapse and malignant evolution Because of excellent results in children and younger...

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... aregenerative anemia as in PRCA (see below), thrombocytopenia with amegakaryocytosis (Chap 109), and neutropenia without marrow myeloid cells in agranulocytosis (Chap 61) In general, and in contrast to aplastic ... similar to those related to aplastic anemia) , either by a mechanism of direct chemical toxicity or by immune destruction Agranulocytosis has an incidence similar to aplastic anemia but is especially ... weeks will replace normal losses in a patient without a functioning bone marrow In chronic anemia, the iron chelators deferoxamine and deferasirox should be added at around the fiftieth transfusion...

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... aplasia (Diamond-Blackfan syndrome) Acquired pure red cell aplasia Thymoma and malignancy Thymoma Lymphoid malignancies (and more rarely other hematologic diseases) Paraneoplastic to solid tumors ... administration of erythropoietin can lead to PRCA mediated by neutralizing antibodies Like aplastic anemia, PRCA results from diverse mechanisms Antibodies to red blood cell precursors are frequently ... Systemic lupus erythematosus, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis Multiple endocrine gland insufficiency Virus Persistent B19 parvovirus, hepatitis, adult T cell leukemia virus, EpsteinBarr...

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... production is not clinically apparent, and skin and joint symptoms are mediated by immune complex deposition Figure 102-2 Pathognomonic cells in marrow failure syndromes A Giant pronormoblast, the ... effect of B19 parvovirus infection of the erythroid progenitor cell B Uninuclear megakaryocyte and microblastic erythroid precursors typical of the 5q– myelodysplasia syndrome C Ringed sideroblast ... sideroblast showing perinuclear iron granules D Tumor cells present on a touch preparation made from the marrow biopsy of a patient with metastatic carcinoma ...

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... Organization Classification of Myelodysplastic Syndromes Disease Freque ncy Blood Bone Findings Marrow Prognos is Findings Refractory 5–10% Anemia anemia (RA) Erythro id No Protract dysplasia ed ... Five entities were defined: refractory anemia (RA), refractory anemia with ringed sideroblasts (RARS), refractory anemia with excess blasts (RAEB), refractory anemia with myelomonocytic excess blasts ... characterized by cytopenias associated with a dysmorphic (or abnormal appearing) and usually cellular bone marrow, and by consequent ineffective blood cell production A clinically useful nosology...

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... acquired aplastic anemia following immunosuppressive treatment and Fanconi's anemia can evolve into MDS MDS is a clonal hematopoietic stem cell disorder leading to impaired cell proliferation and ... other harmful alterations Cytogenetic abnormalities are not random (loss of all or part of 5, 7, and 20, trisomy of 8) and may be related to etiology (11q23 following topoisomerase II inhibitors); ... Features Anemia dominates the early course Most symptomatic patients complain of the gradual onset of fatigue and weakness, dyspnea, and pallor, but at least half the patients are asymptomatic and...

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... hypocellular MDS and aplasia or between refractory anemia with excess blasts and early acute leukemia The World Health Organization considers the presence of 20% blasts in the marrow as the criterion ... vitamin B6 deficiency can be assessed by a therapeutic trial of pyridoxine if the bone marrow shows ringed sideroblasts Marrow dysplasia can be observed in acute viral infections, drug reactions, or ... cytogenetic determination, and increase in the number of blasts are all poor prognostic indicators The outlook in therapy -related MDS, regardless of type, is very poor, and most patients will progress...

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... [PMID: 12011120] Young NS (ed): Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes Philadelphia, Saunders, 2000 ———, Calado RT: Telomere repair complex gene mutations in bone marrow failure syndromes Blood In preparation, ... Current status of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation in acquired aplastic anemia Semin Hematol 37:30, 2000 [PMID: 10676909] Molldrem J et al: Treatment of bone marrow failure of myelodysplastic ... in the marrow space (myelofibrosis); the extension of hematopoiesis into the long bones and into extramedullary sites, usually the spleen, liver, and lymph nodes (myeloid metaplasia); and ineffective...

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... GK Collection and assembly of data AD Collection and assembly of data AK Data analysis and interpretation, collection and assembly of data CP Conception and design, data analysis and interpretation ... Conception and design, provision of patients, data analysis and interpretation, manuscript writing PA Conception and design, data analysis and interpretation, manuscript writing HA Data analysis and ... remodelling and improve LVEF in the chronically ischemic heart remains unclear The low percentage of adult stem cells in the bone marrow, low delivery efficiency, variable engraftment, and poor...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... immature and mature bone marrowderived dendritic cells (BMDCs) Obviously, this study would provide a novel insight into the nanostructure and force feature of immature and mature DCs Materials and ... comparison and a P value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant Results and discussion Morphologic and functional characteristics of BMDCs The bone marrow cells were cultured and ... visualize and quantify nanostructures of them AFM images included single and multiple BMDCs, two and three dimensions, low and high resolutions, cell height profile and histogram, topography, and roughness...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 02:20

... and no stained cell was encountered in the bone marrow sections of birds sacrificed on day 28 and afterwards (Table 2) Lesions in the thymus and bone marrow in chicks with CIA 21 Fig (A) Abundant ... seventh and seventeenth days, and in bone marrow sections obtained between the thirteenth and seventeenth days These results are supported by the reports of parallel studies [13,15,18,25] and also ... thymus and bone marrow sections It was determined that for birds infected via the intramuscular route on the day of hatch, histopathological alterations were detectable in the thymus and bone marrow...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 20:23

... lungs, liver, bone marrow and normal femoral head, and the amount of GFP positive http://www.medsci.org Int J Med Sci 2011, MSCs in the bone marrow was higher than that in the liver, lungs and femoral ... through the ear vein, within more than Necrotic and normal femoral heads, bone marrows, lungs and livers were harvested at 2, and w after transplantation and sectioned followed by observation under ... 2011, searchers have transplanted the bone marrow stem cells into the necrotic femoral heads, and results show bone marrow stem cells can remove vascular lesions and promote angiogenesis in necrotic...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:18

... WBC number on day and 11 (80% and 88% respectively) in mice Recovery of WBC count started on day and day 11 in all treatment groups and returned back to the normal level on day and day 14 in NS ... on day 0, 4, 7, 11 and 14 to monitor the toxicity of CY on bone marrow by measuring WBC number in the peripheral blood Twenty microliters of blood was mixed with 380μl of Randolph’s solution ... affected by CY and AP treatments, the expression level of angiogenesis- and proliferation -related proteins were studied CY significantly down-regulated the protein levels of VEGF, cMyc and ODC in...

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