Table 1 Etiological breakup of 250 cases of pancytopenia
Causes | No. of cases |
|---|---|
Hypersplenism | Â |
Congestive splenomegaly | 45 |
Malaria | 15 |
Tropical splenomegaly | 3 |
Thalassemia | 1 |
Hodgkin’s Disease | 1 |
Idiopathic | 8 |
Total | 73 (29.2% ) |
Infections | Â |
AIDS | 30 |
Septicemia | 14 |
Enteric fever | 9 |
Tuberculosis | 8 |
Viral hepatitis | 3 |
Total | 64 (25.6% ) |
Myelosuppressants | Â |
Carcinoma | 18 |
Leukemia | 7 |
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) | 5 |
Hodgkin’s disease | 2 |
Others | 10 |
Total | 42 (16.8% ) |
Megaloblastosis | 33 (13.2%) |
Hypoplastic / Aplastic anemia | 12 (4.8%) |
Leukemia | 7 (2.8%) |
Lymphoma | 2 (0.8%) |
Plasma cell dyscrasia (PCD) | 2 (0.8%) |
Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) | 1 (0.4%) |
Miscellaneous | 14 (5.6%) |
Grand Total | 250 (100%) |