Very Severe Aplastic Anemia appearing after Thymectomy

Aplastic anemia is a rare complication of thymoma and is extremely infrequent after thymectomy. We present a case of a 60-year-old woman with very severe aplastic anemia appearing sixteen months after thymectomy for a thymoma. She underwent thymectomy for a thymoma in April 2000. Preoperative examin...

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Autores principales: Park, Chi Young, Kim, Hee Je, Kim, Yoo Jin, Park, Yoon Hee, Lee, Jong Wook, Min, Woo Sung, Kim, Chun Choo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Association of Internal Medicine 2003
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4531598/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12760272
http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2003.18.1.61
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author Park, Chi Young
Kim, Hee Je
Kim, Yoo Jin
Park, Yoon Hee
Lee, Jong Wook
Min, Woo Sung
Kim, Chun Choo
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description Aplastic anemia is a rare complication of thymoma and is extremely infrequent after thymectomy. We present a case of a 60-year-old woman with very severe aplastic anemia appearing sixteen months after thymectomy for a thymoma. She underwent thymectomy for a thymoma in April 2000. Preoperative examination revealed no hematologic abnormality. About sixteen months after the operation, she was readmitted because of pancytopenia with cough and fever. Bone marrow aspiration revealed a very severe hypoplasia in all the three cell lines with over 80% fatty tissue, and chest CT revealed no recurrence of thymoma. Her aplastic anemia had responded to cyclosporine A and granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF).
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spelling pubmed-45315982015-10-02 Very Severe Aplastic Anemia appearing after Thymectomy Park, Chi Young Kim, Hee Je Kim, Yoo Jin Park, Yoon Hee Lee, Jong Wook Min, Woo Sung Kim, Chun Choo Korean J Intern Med Case Report Aplastic anemia is a rare complication of thymoma and is extremely infrequent after thymectomy. We present a case of a 60-year-old woman with very severe aplastic anemia appearing sixteen months after thymectomy for a thymoma. She underwent thymectomy for a thymoma in April 2000. Preoperative examination revealed no hematologic abnormality. About sixteen months after the operation, she was readmitted because of pancytopenia with cough and fever. Bone marrow aspiration revealed a very severe hypoplasia in all the three cell lines with over 80% fatty tissue, and chest CT revealed no recurrence of thymoma. Her aplastic anemia had responded to cyclosporine A and granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF). Korean Association of Internal Medicine 2003-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4531598/ /pubmed/12760272 http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2003.18.1.61 Text en Copyright © 2003 The Korean Association of Internal Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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