Chicken pox induced pancytopenia and prompt response to high dose intravenous immunoglobulin.

ABSTRACT

This is to highlight the rare complication of pancytopenia following an attack of chickenpox and the favourable response to high dose intravenous immunoglobulin. We are hereby postulating the cause of this refractory pancytopenia as viral antibody mediated event and hence the response to intravenous immunoglobulin.