human parvovirus (hpv) b19 induced aplastic crisis in a family leading to the diagnosis of hereditary spherocytosis (hs) is a very rare condition being barely reported in the literature. we herein report a 4-year-old girl, her brother, and their mother who all presented with progressive pallor and jaundice after a febrile illness. the hpv b19 was diagnosed using polymerase chain reaction (pcr) ...

T incidence of aplastic anaemia shows geographical variability. The incidence aplastic anemia varied from 1052.7% among patients with pancytopenia.1 The incidence of severe and moderate AA was reported in 33.33% and 57.14% of cases respectively in from northern districts of West Bengal.2 One of the centres in India reported that aplastic anaemia accounted for 20-30% cases’ presenting with pancy...

BACKGROUND The incidence of aplastic anaemia (AA) is higher in Asia than in the West. The precise incidence of AA in India is not known due to lack of epidemiological study. 20-40% of pancytopenic patients in referral centres are of aplastic anaemia. PATIENTS AND METHODS This was an analysis of 1501 patients diagnosed with aplastic anaemia over a period of seven and half years (January 2007- ...

King’s College Hospital, St Mary’s Hospital, Barts and The London Hospital, London, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Birmingham, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, St George’s Hospital, London, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, Ashford Hospital, Middlesex, London, Patient representative, St Helier Hospital, Carshalton, Surrey, Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Dorset,...