Four Cases of Acquired Aplastic Anemia Affecting an Entire Family after Ingesting Ganoderma lucidum / 대한내과학회지
Korean Journal of Medicine
;
: 94-100, 2015.
Article
in Korean
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| ID: wpr-106148
ABSTRACT
We report four cases of Ganoderma lucidum-induced aplastic anemia involving members of the same family. A 33-year-old man and three family members were admitted to the hospital due to fever and pancytopenia. The illness arose after ingesting herbal wine containing G. lucidum 2 weeks earlier. A bone-marrow biopsy showed hypocellularity in three of the four family members (the exception was the one who died). They were treated with supportive management, including transfusions, granulocyte colony stimulating factor, and empirical antibiotics for neutropenic fever. The pancytopenia improved 4-5 weeks after the symptoms first appeared.
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Main subject:
Pancytopenia
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Plants, Medicinal
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Wine
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Biopsy
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Colony-Stimulating Factors
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Reishi
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Ganoderma
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Fever
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Granulocytes
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Anemia, Aplastic
Limits:
Adult
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Humans
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Korean Journal of Medicine
Year:
2015
Type:
Article
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