APLASTIC ANAEMIA TREATED WITH LITHIUM CARBONATE

Aplastic Anaemia.

Aplastic anaemia: a review.

Aplastic anaemia is featured by bone marrow hypocellularity and peripheral pancytopenia and is a potentially fatal disease. In recent years, insight in it pathogenesis has increased. It appears that activated autoreactive T lymphocytes induce apoptosis of haematopoietic stem cells resulting in a hypocellular bone marrow. Nowadays, it can be treated by stem cell transplantation or immunosuppress...

Aplastic Anaemia in Children.

A anaemia is a life threatening blood disorder that affects a large number of children each year in India. Exposure to toxic agents like benzene, radiation and viruses like hepatitis A have been implicated in its aetiology. The incidence in developing countries is far higher compared to developed countries. Investigating a child with pancytopenia is more complex than that of an adult as numerou...

Aplastic anaemia with carcinoma of the thyroid.

improvements may be explained on the basis of the general weight-loss but the bilateral mastectomy, by increasing the compliance of the chest wall, may also have contributed. It is not considered that this case supports a policy of surgical removal of adipose tissue in all cases of obesity. It is felt, however, that such treatment, namely bilateral mastectomy in post-menopausal obese patients w...

Aplastic Anaemia with Microfilaria in Marrow Aspirate

Dear Editor, Filariasis is a parasitic disorder and is endemic in many parts of the world especially in the tropical countries including India. The disease presents itsel predominantly in lymphatic and cutaneous forms and caused by Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia malayi The adult worms can be demonstrated in a variety of aspiration cytology smears. Previously rare associations have also been re...