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cquired aplastic anemia is a condition where your body stops making enough red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. This can lead to fatigue, infections,...
Acquired basopenia is a medical condition characterized by an abnormally low level of basophils—a type of white blood cell—in the circulation. Normally, basophils account for less...
Acquired erythroblastopenia is a condition where the body doesn’t produce enough red blood cells, leading to anemia. It can happen due to various reasons, and understanding...
Acquired haemoglobin H (HbH) disease is a rare, adult-onset form of alpha-thalassaemia that appears later in life rather than being inherited from birth. It happens when...
Acquired primary erythrocytosis means your body has too many red blood cells because of a problem that starts inside the bone marrow itself, and this problem...
Acquired Ring Sideroblasts (ARS) is a medical condition where the bone marrow produces abnormal red blood cells. These cells, known as sideroblasts, have iron deposits encircling...
Acquired sideroblastic anemia is a type of anemia, a condition where your body doesn’t have enough healthy red blood cells to carry oxygen throughout your body....
Acquired torticollis in children is a symptom that may be due to a number of underlying causes, some of which are severe and life threatening. Musculoskeletal, ophthalmologic, infectious,...
Acute leukemia of ambiguous lineage (ALAL) is a rare, fast-growing blood cancer where the leukemia cells show features of more than one blood cell family at...
Acute leukemia of indeterminate/ambiguous lineage (ALIL/ALAL) is a rare, fast-growing blood cancer that starts in the bone marrow but does not fit cleanly into the usual...
Acute lymphopenia means your lymphocyte count drops suddenly below the normal range, usually because of a short‑term illness, drug effect, or stress response. In adults, a...
Acute Motor Neuropathy/Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rapid-onset disorder in which the body’s immune system attacks part of the peripheral nervous system & muscle weakness caused by the immune system damaging the peripheral...
