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Autoimmunity is often implicated in pure red-cell aplasia. Approximately 10 to 15 percent of patients with pure red-cell aplasia have thymomas,¹ and remission of the anemia occurs in 25 to 30 percent of these patients after the thymoma is removed.² In other patients there are immunologic abnormalities, such as hypogammaglobulinemia,³ monoclonal immunoglobulins,⁴ antithyroid antibodies,⁵ antinuclear antibodies,^6,7 and autoimmune hemolytic anemia.^3,8 Immunosuppressive therapy is successful in many patients,^2,9,10,11,12 and a good response to plasmapheresis has been reported in two patients.^13,14

In 1967 Krantz and Kao reported that plasma from a patient with pure red-cell aplasia inhibited heme synthesis by normal bone . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Case Report

Methods

Bone Marrow Cultures

Measurement of Serum Erythropoietin

Binding of ¹²⁵I-Labeled Erythropoietin

Deglycosylation Studies

Results

Discussion

Source Information

From the Department of Hematology, Hôpital R. Poincaré, Garches (N.C.); the Department of Hematology, Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris (E.D., P.M.-S., G.T.); the Department of Hematology, Hôpital Necker, Paris (B.V.); INSERM Unité 362, Villejuif (N.C.); and Institut Cochin de Génétique Moléculaire, INSERM Unité 363, Paris (P.M.) — all in France.

Address reprint requests to Dr. Casadevall at the Department of Hematology, Hôpital R. Poincaré, 104 Blvd. Raymond Poincaré, 92 380 Garches, France.

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