Treatment of acquired aplastic anemia in children.

Department of Pediatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan. kojimas@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Hematology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2012 Apr

Aplastic anemia (AA) is an uncommon but serious disorder characterized by pancytopenia resulting from non-function of the bone marrow. The incidence of AA is approximately 3 fold more common in East Asia than in Europe and United States where yearly incidence rates are approximately two patients per one million.