A Case of Pure Red Cell Aplasia Associated with Pregnancy

Reversible pure red cell aplasia of pregnancy: a therapeutic challenge.

Anemia in pregnancy is usually a result of hemodilution and iron/folic acid deficiency. Pure red cell aplasia (PRCA) has rarely been described during pregnancy with only case reports available in English literature. The clinician should be able to distinguish it from aplastic anemia and since, spontaneous recovery can be expected following delivery, neither corticosteroids nor termination of pr...

Pure red cell aplasia and associated thymoma

Pure red cell aplasia is a rare cause of anemia, caused by an absence of red blood cell precursors in the bone marrow. It is usually a paraneoplastic syndrome, associated most commonly with large-cell granular lymphocyte leukemia but also thymoma. For patients who present both pure red cell aplasia and thymoma, thymectomy leads to an initial remission of the aplasia in 30% of cases. However, su...

[Pure red cell aplasia associated with renal cell carcinoma].

TKI-induced pure red cell aplasia: first case report of pure red cell aplasia with both imatinib and nilotinib

Tyrosine-kinase inhibitors (TKIs) represent the only hopes for long-term survival for patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) and gastrointestinal stromal tumours. Thus, uninterrupted use of TKIs is of importance in such patients. Pure red cell aplasia (PRCA) is a rare disorder, not previously known to be associated with TKIs. We present, to the best of our knowledge, the first case of a ...

Pure Red Cell Aplasia Associated with Good Syndrome

Pure red cell aplasia (PRCA) and hypogammaglobulinemia are paraneoplastic syndromes that are rarer than myasthenia gravis in patients with thymoma. Good syndrome coexisting with PRCA is an extremely rare pathology. We report the case of a 50-year-old man with thymoma and PRCA associated with Good syndrome who achieved complete PRCA remission after thymectomy and postoperative immunosuppressive ...