Nadeem Ikram, Khalid Hassan, Masood Qureshi, Mehboob A Jaffery, Javed Iqbal Sheikh, Zafrullah Kundi, Samiya Naeemullah, Mumtaz Hasan.
Pure red cell aplasia in children an aetiological breakup.
J Pak Inst Med Sci Jan ;6(1,2):330-3.

This paper presents an aetiological breakup of 14 cases of`Pure Red Cell Aplasia (PRCA), a rare haematological entity. Congenital PRCA constituted the commonest aetiological group (28.6%). It was followed by PRCA associated with infections in 21.4% (bronochopneumonia, urinary tract infection and enteric fever in 7.1% each), with cotrimoxazole (14.3%) and with systemic hupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis (7.1 % each), respectively. In 21.4% of cases, no definite cause could be established.

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