The patient, age 35, is admitted with aplastic anemia. He asks the nurse what aplastic anemia is. An accurate response would be that
a. the activity of the bone marrow is depressed.
b. the bone marrow fails to produce lymphocytes.
c. the bone marrow fails to produce red blood cells.
d. red cells are absent as a result of chronic blood loss.
A
Aplastic anemia or aplasia (a hematological term for a failure of the normal process of cell generation and development) has two etiologic classifications: congenital and acquired. All three major blood elements (RBCs, WBCs, platelets) are reduced or absent.
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