Radiation .. lowers .. red blood cell count .. http://tinyurl.com/26kzas
I wonder if bloodletting would have .. worked.
Haematologica. 2007 Mar;92(3 Suppl):ECR13. Links
Paraplegia due to extramedullary hematopoiesis in thalassemia treated
successfully with radiation therapy.Malik M, Pillai LS, Gogia N, Puri
T, Mahapatra M, Sharma DN, Kumar R.
Department of Radiation Oncology, All India Institute of Medical
Sciences, New Delhi, 110029, India. [email hidden].
Spinal cord compression due to extramedullary hematopoiesis (EMH) is a
rare complication of tha- lassemia and generally presents as
paraparesis with sensory impairment. Complete paraplegia is extremely
rare in EMH due to thalassemia although it is known to occur in
polycythemia vera and sickle cell anemia. Treatment options mostly
include surgery and/or radiotherapy. Whereas cases presenting with
paraparesis have been treat- ed with either surgery or radiotherapy
with equal frequency and efficacy, almost all reported cases with
paraplegia have been treated with surgery with or without radiation
therapy. We hereby report a case of thalassemia intermedia with para-
plegia treated successfully with radiotherapy.
PMID: 17405752 [PubMed - in process]
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