Aplastic anemia

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Aplastic anemia is clinical syndrome, characterized by a hypoplastic bone marrow in the setting of pancytopenia. The pathogenesis of aplastic anemia is damage to the pluripotent stem cell reserves of the bone marrow.

Patterns of aplastic anemia include:

Hereditary
Drug-induced
Radiation
Infections
Idiopathic

Drugs and aplastic anemia

Radiation-induced aplastic anemia

Infection-induced aplastic anemia

Idiopathic aplastic anemia

Treatment

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