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Cell
Aplasia
(PRCA)
In 1922
Kaznelson recognized that this
condition was a different entity
fromaplastic anemia, which presents
with pancytopenia
Autoimmune disease
Idiopathic
Thymoma
Lymphoproliferative
Viral infections: HIV, Herpes, Parvovirus
B19 (fifth disease) or Hepatitis
Congenital:
(hereditary)
Diamond-Blackfan anemia
Pathogenesis
Humoral
Cellular
Unhealthy marrow environment
Plasma inhibitor of erythropoiesis
Screening
Confirmatory
BONE MARROW
PERIPHERAL BLOOD
Case Study
Pure red cell aplasia associated with
thymoma: clinical insights from a 50-year
single-institution experience
By :Carrie A. Thompson and David P. Steensma
Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Mayo
Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA