Meanings
- uncountablemedicineDysfunctional granulocytopoiesis; defective production of granulocytes.
RA is defined by anemia, reticulocytopenia and normo- or hypercellular bone marrow (BM) with dyserythropoiesis and infrequently dysgranulocytopoiesis.
1995, Takeo Nomura, Myelodysplastic syndromes: advances in research and treatment : proceedings of the International Symposium on Myelodysplastic Syndromes, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan, 13-14 October 1994, Elsevier Science Ltd, →ISBN2 more examples
The bone marrow is hypercellular with variable hyperplasia of erythropoiesis or granulocytopoiesis. Dyserythropoiesis, dysgranulocytopoiesis, and/or dysmegakaryocytopoiesis is invariably present. Ringed sideroblasts may be found.
2000, Helmut Löffler, Johann Rastetter, Atlas of Clinical Hematology, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBNThis would explain why dyserythropoiesis and anemia are virtually always present in MDS patients, whereas dysgranulocytopoiesis and dysmegakaryocytopoiesis are often less prominent.
2012, Wolfgang Hiddemann, Thomas Büchner, Bernhard Wörmann, Jörg Ritter, Ursula Creutzig, William Plunkett, Acute Leukemias VII: Experimental Approaches and Novel Therapies, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 37
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