What is the medical term for too few blood cells?
Definition & Facts Aplastic anemia and myelodysplastic syndromes are rare but serious disorders in which your bone marrow is injured and doesn’t produce enough healthy blood cells, which leads to too few blood cells in your body.
What is pancytopenia?
Listen to pronunciation. (pan-SY-toh-PEE-nee-uh) A condition in which there is a lower-than-normal number of red and white blood cells and platelets in the blood. Pancytopenia occurs when there is a problem with the blood-forming stem cells in the bone marrow.
What is a polycythemia?
Polycythemia vera is a rare blood disorder in which there is an increase in all blood cells, particularly red blood cells. The increase in blood cells makes your blood thicker. This can lead to strokes or tissue and organ damage.
What is the symptoms of less hemoglobin?
Typical symptoms of low hemoglobin include:
- weakness.
- shortness of breath.
- dizziness.
- fast, irregular heartbeat.
- pounding in the ears.
- headache.
- cold hands and feet.
- pale or yellow skin.
Can pancytopenia go away?
The prognosis of pancytopenia depends largely upon its cause. Thankfully, we now have treatments such as transfusions and stimulating factors to help with the specific blood cell deficiencies while the underlying condition is evaluated and treated.
What infections can cause pancytopenia?
Pancytopenia causes and risk factors
- Epstein-Barr virus, which causes mononucleosis.
- cytomegalovirus.
- HIV.
- hepatitis.
- malaria.
- sepsis (a blood infection)
Can you survive myelofibrosis?
The only curative treatment for myelofibrosis (MF) continues to be allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). Occasionally, adverse events posttransplantation can occur and usually present within the first 2 years after posttransplant.