Pure Red Cell Aplasia Associated With Thymoma

A 27-year-old male with thymoma presented with recurrent severe anemia which required multiple transfusions. Bone marrow biopsy showed pure red cell aplasia with normal other cell lineages. He was diagnosed with pure red cell aplasia associated with thymoma and treatment with cyclosporine A was begu...

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Autor principal: Thangatorai, Ramesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10286678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37362458
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39387
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description A 27-year-old male with thymoma presented with recurrent severe anemia which required multiple transfusions. Bone marrow biopsy showed pure red cell aplasia with normal other cell lineages. He was diagnosed with pure red cell aplasia associated with thymoma and treatment with cyclosporine A was begun. After 12 weeks of treatment, his hemoglobin improved to 11.3 g/dL and the patient remained transfusion independent.
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spelling pubmed-102866782023-06-23 Pure Red Cell Aplasia Associated With Thymoma Thangatorai, Ramesh Cureus Internal Medicine A 27-year-old male with thymoma presented with recurrent severe anemia which required multiple transfusions. Bone marrow biopsy showed pure red cell aplasia with normal other cell lineages. He was diagnosed with pure red cell aplasia associated with thymoma and treatment with cyclosporine A was begun. After 12 weeks of treatment, his hemoglobin improved to 11.3 g/dL and the patient remained transfusion independent. Cureus 2023-05-23 /pmc/articles/PMC10286678/ /pubmed/37362458 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39387 Text en Copyright © 2023, Thangatorai et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_fullStr Pure Red Cell Aplasia Associated With Thymoma
title_full_unstemmed Pure Red Cell Aplasia Associated With Thymoma
title_short Pure Red Cell Aplasia Associated With Thymoma
title_sort pure red cell aplasia associated with thymoma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10286678/
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