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1. Aplastic Anemia Characteristics.
2. Aplastic Anemia: Cause

Benzene

Can progress to Myelodysplasia then to Leukemia

Antibiotics (chloramphenicol)

Chemotherapy agents

WBC <500

Arsenic

Ionizing radiation

Pancytopenia

Hypocellular marrow

50% Fatality rate b4 BM transplant

Pesticides- organochlorine, lindane

Reticulocytes < 1%