Clinical Case Reports (Mar 2021)

Very severe aplastic anemia in an 80‐year‐old man

  • Ganesh Kasinathan,
  • Bee Sun Lee,
  • Jameela Sathar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3757
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 3
pp. 1330 – 1333

Abstract

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Abstract Although the patient with very severe aplastic anemia might be a fit elderly receiving standard therapy, there are factors which contribute to an adverse outcome such as severity of pancytopenia, absence of minor paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria clone and infective complications of therapy.