myelophthisis

[¦mī·ə·lō′this·əs]

(medicine)

Loss of bone marrow.

Atrophy of the spinal cord.

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Postow, "Response after treatment with pembrolizumab in a patient with myelophthisis due to melanoma: the role of checkpoint inhibition in the bone," Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, vol.

Effective Immunotherapy in Bone Marrow Metastatic Melanoma Presenting with Disseminated Intravascular Coagulopathy

HIV infection may lead to anaemia by changes in cytokine production with subsequent effects on haematopoises, decreased erythropoietin production, due to treatment with HAART drugs, nutritional deficiency, opportunistic infection, malignancy and myelophthisis of marrow caused by lymphoma.

A study of bone marrow changes in human immunodefeciency virus infection

(27) The anemia and thrombocytopenia can be caused by myelophthisis; however, in people with CLL, immune-mediated cytopenias are also common.

T-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia in a double yellow-headed Amazon parrot (Amazona ochrocephala oratrix)

FIGHERA & BARROS (2004) observed no granulomatous inflammatory infiltrates in the bone marrow of the six vetch-intoxicated cattle from which this tissue was examined, but those animals did not have either a hemorrhagic disease as the cow in this case, which had changes in the bone marrow typical of myelophthisis secondary to the granulomatous myelitis.

Granulomatous myelitis associated with hemorrhagic syndrome due to consumption of Vicia villosa by cattle/Mielite granulomatosa associada a sindrome hemorragica devido ao consumo de Vicia villosa em um bovino

The low hematopoietic cell count was attributed to myelophthisis. These findings were consistent with a well-differentiated lymphoid malignancy in the bone marrow and supported a diagnosis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

Long-term treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia in a green-winged macaw (Ara chloroptera)

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