Saudi Journal of Pathology and Microbiology (SJPM)
Volume-3 | Issue-11 | 457-461
Original Research Article
Bone Marrow Aspiration to Evaluate Various Types of Hematological Disorders
Dr. Sumit Kumar, Dr. Anita Sharan, Dr. Prakash Roplekar
Published : Nov. 30, 2018
Abstract
Hematological disorders are frequent in all age groups and most of them
present with anemia. Bone marrow aspiration is useful and cost effective diagnostic
procedure for diagnosis of both neoplastic and non-neoplastic hematological diseases.
This study was done to emphasize the crucial role of Bone Marrow Aspiration in
diagnosis of hematological disorders. This was a retrospective study carried out in a
period of 1 year (July 2016-August 2017). Bone marrow examination of 65 cases of
suspected hematological disorders on peripheral blood smear was carried out and
clinical history was recorded. We studied total 65 patients among them most common
red blood cell pathologies were megaloblastic anemia (56%) followed by mixed
erythroid hyperplasia (11%), iron deficiency anemia (6%), normoblastic maturation
(6%). All the 5 patients of platelet disorders were diagnosed as Idiopathic
Thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). Among WBC pathologies Acute Leukemia (6%) and
other Miscellaneous like aleukemic leukemia, leucoerythroblastic reaction &
haemophagocytic lymphohistocytosis. Megaloblastic anemia was found to be the most
common finding in RBC pathology, in WBC pathology acute leukemia was the most
common and among platelets ITP.