Pancytopenia

One speaks of a pancytopenia, if there is a shortage in all three cell lines ( Trizytopenie ) of hematopoiesis, ie a leucopenia, anemia and thrombocytopenia in the blood picture. As causes of pancytopenia, bone marrow damage is by medication, radiation therapy or radiation exposure as well be considered as a Benzolintoxikation. Other causes include bone marrow diseases such as aplastic anemia (possibly also caused by benzene ). Also in leukemia there may be a pancytopenia come (eg, hairy cell leukemia or acute leukemia ), as well as the myelodysplastic syndrome, multiple myeloma ( = multiple myeloma) or bone marrow metastasis of malignant tumors (eg, small cell lung carcinoma ). Follow pancytopenia are a risk of infection due to lack of leukocytes, weakness due to deficiency of erythrocytes ( red blood cells) and bleeding tendency due to lack of platelets.

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