CLINICAL MEDICINE

MEDICINE

HAEMATOLOGY

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Which one of the following is a cause of pancytopenia
A
thalassemia.
B
aplastic anemia.
C
iron deficiency anemia.
D
hereditary spherocytosis.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Sepsis causes pancytopenias through several mechanisms (marrow suppression, hypersplenism, and consumptive coagulopathy), which usually act in combination. The virus causes pancytopenia through several mechanisms that modulate the hematopoietic stem cells.

Detailed explanation-2: -AA refers to pancytopenia in association with bone marrow hypoplasia/aplasia, most often due to immune injury to multipotent hematopoietic stem cells.

Detailed explanation-3: -The most common cause of aplastic anemia is from your immune system attacking the stem cells in your bone marrow. Other factors that can injure bone marrow and affect blood cell production include: Radiation and chemotherapy treatments.

Detailed explanation-4: -Aplastic anemia is defined as pancytopenia with hypocellular bone marrow in the absence of an abnormal infiltrate and with no increase in reticulin.

Detailed explanation-5: -Cancer. Lupus. Bone marrow disorders. Infections. Side effects of medicine. Exposure to toxins such as radiation, arsenic, or benzine. Chemotherapy treatments. Radiation treatments. More items •01-Jun-2021

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