differential diagnosis

Last reviewed 01/2018

The differential diagnosis of aplastic anaemia is effectively, exclusion of other causes of pancytopenia:

• other bone marrow disorders:
• myelodysplasia
• acute leukaemia
• myelofibrosis
• infiltrative disease - lymphoma, myeloma, carcinoma, hairy cell leukaemia
• megaloblastic anaemia

• non-marrow disorders:
• hypersplenism
• systemic lupus erythematous
• infection - tuberculosis, AIDS, brucellosis, leishmaniasis