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Myelophthisic Anemia: Treatment & Medication
Updated: Jan 4, 2008
- Overview
- Differential Diagnoses & Workup
- Treatment & Medication
- Follow-up
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Treatment
Medical Care
- Treat the underlying disease and provide supportive measures for symptomatic patients.
- Treat anemia with packed red blood cell transfusions. Rarely, patients have low erythropoietin levels and may respond to supplemental erythropoietin therapy.
- Patients with other cytopenias generally do not need treatment unless bleeding or infection is present.
Consultations
- Hematologist
- Oncologist
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Further Reading
Keywords
myelophthisis, secondary myelofibrosis, marrow infiltration, marrow granuloma, infiltrative myelopathy, nonhematopoietic cells, cytopenia, thrombocytopenia, neutropenia, pancytopenia, anemia, metastatic carcinomas, metastatic cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, lymphoproliferative malignancies, lymphoproliferative cancers, lymphomas, disseminated granulomatous diseases, miliary tuberculosis, Gaucher disease
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