PANCYTOPENIA
RISK FACTORS
ENVIRONMENTAL CAUSES
CAUSES
- CHEMOTHERAPY
- EXPOSURE TO ENVIRONMENTAL TOXINS (BENZENE AND ARSENIC)
- FAMILY HISTORY OF BLOOD DISORDERS
- LUPOS OR OTHER CERTAIN AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS
- PREGNANCY
- RADIATION EXPOSURE
QUESTIONS
- CERTAIN MEDICATION INCLUDING SOME ANITBIOTICS AND IMMUNOSUPPRESSANT DRUGS
- CHEMICAL TOXINS SUCH AS BENZENE
- CHEMOTHERAPHY
- RADIATION EXPOSURE
- VIRAL INFECTIONS
WHAT IS ONE TREATMENT FOR SEVERE CASES OF PANCYTOPENIA?
WHAT IS ONE TYPE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CAUSES FOR PANCYTOPENIA?
- HEREDITY
- MEDICATIONS
- EXPOSURE TO ENVRIONMENTAL CONTAMINATION (I.E RADIATION OR ARSENIC)
- IN IDIOPATHIC CASES, THE EXACT CAUSE IS UNKNOWN
MEDICATIONS
WHAT IS ONE TYPE OF PANCYTOPENIA?
TREATMENTS
SERIOUS SYMPTOMS
TRUE OR FALSE: OLDER PATIENTS ARE MORE LIKELY TO GET BETTER AFTER TREATMENT?
- ANTITHYMOCYTE ANTIBODIES (THYMOGLOBULIN), WHICH SUPPRESS THE BODY'S NATURAL IMMUNE RESPONSE
- CORTICOSTEROIDS SUCH AS METHYLPREDNISOLONE
- CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE (CYTOXAN)
- CYCLOSPORINE(SANDIMMUNE, NEORAL)
- IN VERY MILD CASES,
- TREATMENT MAY NOT BE NECESSARY
- MODERATE CASES
- BLOOD TRANFUSION MAY HELP RESTORE BOOD CELLS COUNT
- SEVERE CASES
- BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT
- STEM CELL THERAPY MAY BE REQUIRED TO RESTORE THE ABILITY OF BONE MARROW TO PRODUCE BLOOD CELLS
SYMPTOMS
- CONFUSION OR LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS FOR EVEN A BRIEF MOMENT
- EXCESSIVE FATIGUE, WEAKNESS, OR SHORTNESS OF BREATH
- HIGH FEVER(+101F)
RESULTS
- MORE EFFECTIVE IN YOUNGER PATIENTS
- OLDER PATIENTS MAY REQUIRE THE USE OF IMMUNOSUPPRESSANT DRUGS
POTENTIAL COMPLICATIONS
- BLEEDING IN THE BRAIN
- COMPLICATIONS FROM BLOOD TRANFUSIONS
- COMPLICATIONS FROM MEDICATIONS
- POOR REACTION TO BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT
- SEPSIS(LIFE-THREATENING BACTERIAL BLOOD INFECTION)
- SEVERE BLEEDING
- INCLUDE GENERALIZE SYMPTOMS SUCH AS FATIGUE AND WEAKNESS
- SKIN SYMPTOMS
- EASY BRUSING
- RASH
- BLEEDING
- NOSEBLEEDS
- BLEEDING OF THE GUMS
- UNEXPLAINED BLEEDING
- BLEEDING IN THE INTERNAL ORGANS
WHAT IS PANCYTOPENIA
- A DEFICIENCY OF ALL TYPES OF BLOOD CELLS INCLUDING WHITE BLOOD CELLS, RED BLOOD CELLS, AND PLATELETS
- IT OCCURS WHEN YOUR BODY CANNOT PRODUCE ENOUGH BLOOD CELLS BECAUSE THE BONE MARROW STEM CELLS THAT FORM BLOOD CELLS DO NOT FUNCTION NORMALLY
- IDIOPATHIC, IN WHICH THE CAUSE IS NOT KNOWN, BUT IS OFTEN AUTOIMMUNE, MEANING THAT THE BODY ATTACKS ITS OWN TISSUES AS FOREIGN SUBSTANCES
- OFTEN CAUSED BY ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS