title: Case 39: an elderly man with red cell aplasia.
abstract: An elderly man presented with a macrocytic anemia with severe reticulocytopenia. The observation of trilineage dysplasia in addition to red cell aplasia led to a diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Haematology, Faculty of Medicine, St Mary's Hospital Campus of Imperial College, St Mary's Hospital, London, UK.
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Uprichard
authors.forename: Barbara J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Bain
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000748:Anemia, Macrocytic; D001856:Bone Marrow Examination; D006403:Hematologic Tests; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009190:Myelodysplastic Syndromes / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D011239:Prednisolone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012010:Red-Cell Aplasia, Pure / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D011239:Prednisolone