aplastic anemia

When I was a medical student in my native Oklahoma, I treated a young woman with a calm smile and severe anemia.

But no one could figure out the cause of her anemia until someone asked her more carefully about her diet.

Its relationship to anemia, however, is more complex than the cause-and-effect sequence I learned in medical school.

MDS is a relatively rare condition that can lead to a depletion of red or white blood cells, anemia, heavy bleeding.

The three anti-anemia drugs have cost the government a reported $60 billion since 1989.

It occurs in well-marked cases of pernicious anemia and leukemia, and, much less commonly, in very severe symptomatic anemias.

In pernicious anemia they are always greatly diminished, and an increase should exclude the diagnosis of this disease.

(b) In secondary anemia plaques are generally increased, although sometimes decreased.

Megaloblasts are found in pernicious anemia, and with extreme rarity in any other condition.

Pathologically, normoblasts occur in severe symptomatic anemia, leukemia, and pernicious anemia.