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Aplastic anemia is a rare disease in which the bone marrow stops producing enough blood cells. Any blood cells the marrow does make are completely normal, but there are simply not enough of them to serve the body's needs. With prompt and proper care, most patients can be successfully treated. Aplastic anemia can be moderate, severe or very severe.
What is Bone Marrow Failure? Bone marrow failure happens when the marrow does not produce enough red cells, white cells or platelets, or the blood cells that are produced are damaged or defective. This means the body can not supply itself with the blood it needs. PNH, along with aplastic anemia and MDS, are bone marrow failure diseases.
Dr. Escalante is an active researcher, serving as Principal Investigator on numerous studies related to fatigue and other symptoms in patients with cancer and other conditions including bone marrow failure diseases like aplastic anemia, MDS, PNH and AML. Dr.
FAQ. When the bone marrow fails to keep up with the body's needs and doesn't produce enough red cells, white cells or platelets, or when those blood cells that are produced are damaged or defective, you have bone marrow failure. Aplastic anemia, myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), and paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) are bone marrow ...
Most experts believe aplastic anemia occurs because your immune system attacks and kills your stem cells in your bone marrow. This causes you to have low blood counts for all three types of blood cells. Low blood counts result in symptoms such as fatigue, tiredness, bleeding, bruising and a higher risk of infection.
Primary myelofibrosis, the gradual replacement of bone marrow tissue by fibrous scar-like tissue, disrupting normal blood cell production. Relation to bone marrow failure diseases: Myeloproliferative neoplasms and myelodysplastic syndromes are both blood cell diseases. In chronic myeloproliferative neoplasms, the bone marrow makes too many cells.
Aplastic anemia occurs when blood-forming stem cells in bone marrow can't produce enough red blood cells, white blood cells or platelets. The cells that are made are normal. Sometimes there's a genetic cause that was passed from parent to child, but most often it results from the accidental destruction of stem cells by the immune system.
Intimacy and sexuality are not life or death issues, but they are quality of life issues. Bone marrow failure may impact intimacy and sex drive from the physical and psychological side effects of treatment. Emotional and medical stressors can impact sexual function. Bone Marrow Failure Disease Symptoms Can Affect Sexuality and Intimacy
Find a Specialist by Postal Code. This is a working list in progress of bone marrow failure specialists who are seeing new patients for treatment or consultation. It’s important for patients to seek consultation with physicians who have experience working with bone marrow failure disease. We’ve developed this interactive map of physician ...
These blood-forming stem cells grow and mature into the three types of blood cells: If the bone marrow "factory" breaks down and fails to keep up with the body's needs for the production of healthy blood cells, the result is called bone marrow failure. Aplastic anemia, myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH ...