Causes of Neutropenia (Absolute count < 8000/ cu.mm.)
· Infections: bacterial (e.g. overwhelming infection, septicemia, typhoid, paratyphoid) viral infections (infectious mononucleosis, hepatitis, influenza, measles, rubella), rickettsia, others (malaria, kala- azar).
· Infants (normal count 40%).
· Hodgkin's disease, chronic sinusitis, hemolytic anemia and lonizing radiation
· Drugs & chemical (antibiotics, analgesics, antithyroids, arsenicals and ionizing radiation
· Hematopoietic diseases (aleukemic leukemia, aplastic anemia) and splenic sequestration.
· Autoimmune and isoimmune neotropenias.
· Immune defects like infertile genetic agranulocytosis.
No comments:
Post a Comment