True thymic hyperplasia causing pure red cell aplasia: a case report

Pure red cell aplasia caused by true thymic hyperplasia is extremely rare. We report the case of a 25-year-old female diagnosed with pure red cell aplasia. Following a thymectomy confirming true thymic hyperplasia and corticosteroid therapy, complete response was achieved. Patients diagnosed with pu...

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Autores principales: Mohammad, Adam, Dawson, Alan G, Bajaj, Amrita, Rathinam, Sridhar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8972240/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34791240
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icvts/ivab301
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description Pure red cell aplasia caused by true thymic hyperplasia is extremely rare. We report the case of a 25-year-old female diagnosed with pure red cell aplasia. Following a thymectomy confirming true thymic hyperplasia and corticosteroid therapy, complete response was achieved. Patients diagnosed with pure red cell aplasia should be investigated with a computerized tomographic scan to assess for thymic pathology and if present, this should be resected. Follow-up is essential to monitor for recurrence.
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spelling pubmed-89722402022-04-01 True thymic hyperplasia causing pure red cell aplasia: a case report Mohammad, Adam Dawson, Alan G Bajaj, Amrita Rathinam, Sridhar Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg Case Reports Pure red cell aplasia caused by true thymic hyperplasia is extremely rare. We report the case of a 25-year-old female diagnosed with pure red cell aplasia. Following a thymectomy confirming true thymic hyperplasia and corticosteroid therapy, complete response was achieved. Patients diagnosed with pure red cell aplasia should be investigated with a computerized tomographic scan to assess for thymic pathology and if present, this should be resected. Follow-up is essential to monitor for recurrence. Oxford University Press 2021-11-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8972240/ /pubmed/34791240 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icvts/ivab301 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8972240/
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