Aplastic Anaemia Complicating Infectious Mononucleosis

Abstract

A case‐report of a patient with infectious mononucleosis is presented who developed aplastic anaemia and acute appendicitis during the course of the illness. The appendicitis progressed to the formation of an abscess which was evacuated at operation. Complete remission of the aplastic anaemia followed treatment with prednisolone.

EBV Infection Resulting in Aplastic Anemia: A Case Report and Literature Review

“…Most patients had severe aplastic anemia by Camitta's criteria [8]. Thus EBV associated aplastic anemia does not appear to be different from idiopathic aplastic anemia regarding the prognosis [9][10][11][12][13][14][15].…”