The myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) form a heterogeneous group of clonal disorders with an increasing incidence in the elderly population and an emerging impact on healthcare resources. MDS are caused by gene mutations affecting the haematopoietic stem cells, leading to ineffective haematopoiesis, characterised by dysplasia and cytopenia, and a propensity to evolve towards secondary acute myelo...

The 2008 WHO classification identified refractory cytopenia with unilineage dysplasia (RCUD) as a composite entity encompassing refractory anemia, refractory thrombocytopenia (RT), and refractory neutropenia (RN), characterized by 10% or more dysplastic cells in the bone marrow respective lineage. The diagnosis of RT and RN is complicated by several factors. Diagnosing RT first requires exclusi...

Methods WLS was diagnosed SLE at the age of 16 with fever, rash, oral ulcers, cytopenia, lupus nephritis (type II and III), retinal vasculitis and positive anti dsDNA. She was started on systemic steroid and Azathioprine. Symptoms became better and steroid was gradually tapered. However 3 months later she developed relapse of lupus activity with worsening lupus nephritis (active urinary sedimen...

•Ovarian dysgerminoma associated with paraneoplastic fever, cytopenia and splenomegaly•Complete symptom resolution resulted from tumor resection and medical management•Non-hematolymphoid neoplasms are part of differential diagnosis in secondary HLH.

Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a rare cause of cytopenia and is often associated with lymphoma. The occurrence of HLH in the course of lymphoma treatment could be an indicator for refractory disease.

studies have shown that the percentage of ring sideroblasts in MDS is not prognostically important. Thus, in the revised WHO classification, a diagnosis of MDS-RS may be made even in the presence of only 5% of ring sideroblasts in cases with SF3B1 mutation. MDS-RS cases will be subdivided into cases with single lineage dysplasia (previously classified as RARS) and cases with multilineage dyspla...

Refractory cytopenia of childhood is the most common subtype of myelodysplastic syndrome in children. In this study, we compared the outcome of immunosuppressive therapy using horse antithymocyte globulin (n=46) with that using rabbit antithymocyte globulin (n=49) in 95 patients with refractory cytopenia of childhood and hypocellular bone marrow. The response rate at 6 months was 74% for horse ...

Autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome (ALPS) is a rare, inherited disorder of immune dysregulation secondary to defective lymphocyte apoptosis. This leads to uninhibited proliferation of lymphoid tissue manifesting with lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, autoimmune cytopenia, and an increased risk of lymphoid malignancy. We report a 2 year old boy with fever, generalized lymphadenopathy, he...

Objective. To identify risk factors of adverse outcome in patients with HIV infection and cytopenia. Materials methods. The analyzed group included 30 two-line cytopenia pancytopenia. were on inpatient treatment the Budget Healthcare Institution «CTBD №4», BHCI «Regional Clinical Hospital», Omsk. Results discussion. Hematopoiesis was found 14 (46,66%), while dyseritropoiesis noted 4 (13,33%), d...