Myelokathexis
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Myelokathexis
Classification and external resources
ICD-9 288.01
DiseasesDB 32164

Myelokathexis is a congenital disorder that causes severe, chronic leukopenia (a reduction of circulating white blood cells) and neutropenia (a reduction of neutrophil granulocyte white blood cells).2

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Treatment

Myelokathexis is amongst the diseases treated with bone marrow transplantation and cord blood stem cells.

References

  1. ^ "ICD-9-CM Disease Index: M". Retrieved on 2008-02-17.
  2. ^ Aprikyan AA, Liles WC, Park JR, Jonas M, Chi EY, Dale DC (2000). "Myelokathexis, a congenital disorder of severe neutropenia characterized by accelerated apoptosis and defective expression of bcl-x in neutrophil precursors". Blood 95 (1): 320–7. PMID 10607719, http://www.bloodjournal.org/cgi/content/full/95/1/320. 

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