macrocytic anaemia with normoblastic marrow
Last reviewed 01/2018
Macrocytic anaemia with a normoblastic bone marrow presents as round macrocytes on the blood film.
Possible causes include:
- alcohol
- liver cirrhosis
- reticulocytosis
- marrow infiltration
- hypothyroidism / myxoedema
- myleloproliferative disease
- myelodysplastic syndrome
- acquired sideroblastic anaemia