a condition characterized by a deficiency of a type of blood cells
cytopenia in American English
(ˌsaitəˈpiniə)
noun
Pathology
the condition of having a decreased number of cellular elements in the blood; hypocytosis
Word origin
[cyto- + Gk penía poverty, want]cyto- is a combining form meaning “cell,” used in the formation of compound words. Otherwords that use the affix cyto- include: cytochemistry, cytogenetics, cytopathic, cytopathogenic, cytosol
Examples of 'cytopenia' in a sentence
cytopenia
Various cytopenia including leucopenia (neutropenia), thrombocytopenia, and anemia can occur in kidney transplant recipients.
Muhammad Abdul Mabood Khalil, Muhammad Ashhad Ullah Khalil, Taqi F. Taufeeq Khan,Jackson Tan 2018, 'Drug-Induced Hematological Cytopenia in Kidney Transplantation and the ChallengesIt Poses for Kidney Transplant Physicians', Journal of Transplantationhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/9429265. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The degree of cytopenia was directly related to the degree of immunosupression.
Akinsegun Akinbami, Olajumoke Oshinaike, Titilope Adeyemo, Adewunmi Adediran, OwolabiDosunmu, Mobolaji Dada, Idris Durojaiye, Alaba Adebola, Oshunkalu Vincent 2010, 'Hematologic Abnormalities in Treatment-naïve HIV Patients', Infectious Diseaseshttps://doi.org/10.4137/IDRT.S6033. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The clinical findings include cytopenia, particularly thrombocytopenia.
Deniz Goren Sahin, Olga Meltem Akay, Hava Üsküdar Teke, Neslihan Andıc, Eren Gunduz,Zafer Gulbas 2013, 'Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Leukemia Successfully Treated by Autologous HematopoieticStem Cell Transplantation to a Remission of 48-Month Duration', Case Reports in Hematologyhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/471628. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This antibody-dependent cell cytotoxicity mechanism may lead to cytopenia observed in the patient.
Sébastien Viel, Sébastien Viel, Rémi Pescarmona, Rémi Pescarmona, Alexandre Belot,Alexandre Belot, Audrey Nosbaum, Audrey Nosbaum, Christine Lombard, Thierry Walzer,Frédéric Bérard, Frédéric Bérard 2018, 'A Case of Type 2 Hypersensitivity to Rasburicase Diagnosed with a Natural Killer CellActivation Assay', Frontiers in Immunologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fimmu.2018.00110/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Among the cases, 162 (33.5%) of them had cytopenia.
Safak Kaya, Nazif Elaldi, Ozcan Deveci, Ahmet Emre Eskazan, Muhammed Bekcibasi, SalihHosoglu 2018, 'Cytopenia in adult brucellosis patients', Indian Journal of Medical Researchhttp://www.ijmr.org.in/article.asp?issn=0971-5916;year=2018;volume=147;issue=1;spage=73;epage=80;aulast=Kaya. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The main adverse events were cytopenia and psychiatric disorders.
Paulo Roberto Abrão Ferreira, Mariliza Henrique da Silva, Carlos Eduardo Brandão-Melo,Rosamar Eulira Rezende, Mário Gonzalez, Tânia Reuter, Jose David Urbaez, ReinaldoJose Gianini, Ana Martinelli, Maria Cássia Mendes-Correa 2015, 'The clinical effectiveness of pegylated interferon and ribavirin for the treatmentof chronic hepatitis C in HIV-infected patients in Brazil: a multicentric study',Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseaseshttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1413867014001664. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The main complication of antiviral therapy after liver transplantation was cytopenia.
M. Sh. Khubutia, V. E. Sjutkin, A. A. Salienko, I. V. Karandashova, V. A. Dolgin,V. P. Chulanov, M. S. Novruzbekov 2016, 'Treatment of hepatitis C in liver transplant recipients in the Moscow Center for LiverTransplantation within 10 years', Transplantologiâhttps://www.jtransplantologiya.ru/jour/article/view/10. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Cytopenia and certain lymphoproliferative disorders are key diagnostic pointers.
Silvia Sánchez-Ramón, Arancha Bermúdez, Luis Ignacio González-Granado, Carlos Rodríguez-Gallego,Ana Sastre, Pere Soler-Palacín, the ID-Signal Onco-Haematology Group, Luis Allende,Laia Alsina, Ana María Bielsa, Sara Calleja-Antolín, Carmen Cámara, Javier Carbone,Carmen Carreras, Ana De Andrés Martín, Angela Deyá, Cristina Díaz de Heredia, RominaDieli-Crimi, José Luis Díez, Nerea Domínguez-Pinilla, Luis Fernández-Pereira, JoséMᵃ García, Juana Gil-Herrera, Antonio Gutiérrez, Isidro Jarque, Manel Juan, FranciscoLendínez, Pilar Llobet, Mónica López, Ana López de la Guía, Marcos López-Hoyos, AndreaMartín-Nalda, Mónica Martínez, Josefa Melero, Ana Méndez-Echevarría, Pedro Moral,Olaf Neth, María Núñez, Gonzalo Ocejo-Vinyals, Juliana Ochoa-Grullón, Peter Olbrich,Raquel Oña, Manuel Pérez-Encinas, Jaime Pons, Carmen Rodríguez, Berta Sánchez, JuanLuis Santos-Pérez, Mᵃ Elena Seoane, Alexandru Vlagea 2019, 'Primary and Secondary Immunodeficiency Diseases in Oncohaematology: Warning Signs,Diagnosis, and Management', Frontiers in Immunologyhttps://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fimmu.2019.00586/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
It usually presents with nonspecific symptoms like fever, lymphoadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, cytopenia.
S. E. Voskanyan, V. E. Syutkin, A. P. Mal'tseva, V. S. Rudakov, D. S. Svetlakova,A. A. Davtyan, Z. K. Simavonyan, А. R. Gallyamova, N. A. Probatova, V. R. Gorodetskiy,E. S. Stolyarevich, Yu. D. Udalov, A. S. Samoylov 2018, 'Hemophagocytic syndrome and Kaposi sarcoma after liver transplantation', Transplantologiâhttps://www.jtransplantologiya.ru/jour/article/view/227. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)