Myelogram in chronic renal failure

ABSTRACT

This study was undertaken to determine the effect of chronic renal failure on bone marrow picture. It included 20 patients whose blood urea ranged between 75 and 300 mg/dl. The hemoglobin concentration varied between 4 and 11.5 g/dl. The anemia was normochromic normocytic in most of the cases [85%]. There is a rough correlation between the hemoglobin concentration and blood urea. The cellular bone marrow proliferation in response to the anemic stress in chronic renal failure is below that would be expected from the state of anemia