ERYTHROGENESIS IMPERFECTA
ERYTHROGENESIS IMPERFECTA
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DOI:
10.1136/adc.25.124.313
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发表时间:
1950-01-01
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
CATHIE, IAB
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作者:
CATHIE, IAB
A proper functioning of the red cell precursors in the bone marrow is essential for the maintenance of an adequate number of circulating red blood corpuscles, and there are several well-recognized ways in which the normal production oferythrocytes may be upset. The mechanism of the derangement is clearly understood in some cases, but in others the aetiology is quite unknown. Various terms containing the words aplastic and hypoplastic are in commonuse to define the anaemias of childhood, and not only are these words often confused but sometimes they are applied to the peripheral blood and sometimes to the state of the marrow, so that a given description of an anaemia may be entirely at variance with the pathological process at work. Aplastic anaemia, usually involving all the marrow elements, has been reported some 150 times (Whitby and Britton, 1946). In classifying the so-called aplastic anaemias, however, Rhoads and Miller (1934), besides describing the truly aplastic marrow, recognized a type in which the marrow was' full'of precursors of a primitive variety presumably incapable of maturing. An aplasia due to marrow exhaustion is occasionally seen as the result of a prolonged maturation factor deficiency or a haemolytic process. Whitby and Britton refer to six cases in the literature of total aplasia of the marrow erythroblastic elements, and a similar but periodic lack of marrow erythroblasts has been recently described, in which an alergic factor appears to play a part (Gasser, 1949). A peripheral pancytopenia rather similar to the blood picture in aplastic anaemia is sometimes seen, and is thought to be due to the production by the spleen of a substance inhibitory to the bone marrow. Again, some poisons, infections, and drugs appear to have a directdepressant action on one or other of the bone marrow elements, causing a dysfunction, hypoplasia, or aplasia with consequent peripheral deficiency.