| Linezolid was stopped when the patient was admitted to hospital with anemia, pure red cell aplasia and severe peripheral neuropathy. |
| At the time of aplasia, the child with sickle cell disease is highly contagious. |
| Antibody-mediated pure red cell aplasia has been reported in a very rare number of patients exposed to Aranesp® subcutaneously. |
| Because this disease is virtually always fatal due to the profound bone marrow aplasia, management is not well defined and is rarely successful. |
| Measurements of thyroid hormone and cortisol levels should be considered because hypogonadism may occur with pituitary aplasia. |
| Germinal cell aplasia or sterility in offspring of mothers receiving busulfan during pregnancy has not been reported in humans. |
