Pancytopenia

Question 1

1. What is pancytopenia?

2. What causes this?

Answer 1

1. A deficiency of blood cells in all lineages i.e. Anaemia, Neutropenia, Thrombocytopenia
2. Inherited bone marrow failure (Fanconi Anaemia), Aplastic anaemia, Myelodysplasia, Acute Leukaemia, B12/Folate deficiency, Hypersplenism,