The two cases of Zika virus infection imported into Japan from French Polynesia in February 2014 showed signs of leukopenia ( decreased levels of white blood cells ) and moderate thrombocytopenia ( decreased levels of platelets ).
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Usually the congenital form is not associated with thrombocytopenia and leukopenia, so if these features are present more detailed search for myelodysplasia is warranted, as pseudo-Pelger Hu�t anomaly can be an early feature of myelodysplasia.
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The FDA monograph for metronidazole states that this medication can also cause leukopenia, and the prescriber information suggests a complete blood count, including differential cell count, before and after, in particular, high-dose therapy.
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Patient 1 : A previously healthy 33-year-old man developed P . carinii pneumonia and oral mucosal candidiasis in March 1981 after a two-month history of fever associated with elevated liver enzymes, leukopenia and CMV viruria.
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Clozapine also carries five black box warnings, including warnings for agranulocytosis, CNS depression, leukopenia, neutropenia, seizure disorder, bone marrow suppression, dementia, hypotension, myocarditis, orthostatic hypotension ( with or without syncope ) and seizures.
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Numerous other adjuvant therapies have been tried in TEN including, corticosteroids, cyclosporin, cyclophosphamide, plasmapheresis, pentoxifylline, N-acetylcysteine, ulinastatin, infliximab, and Granulocyte colony-stimulating factors ( if TEN associated-leukopenia exists ).
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Leukopenia ( a low total white cell count ) is associated with relatively poor survival in HIV infection and this association is more marked in people of Black African descent, despite the ( on average ) lower white cell counts found in black Africans.
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Under Operation Peppermint, orders went out for medical personnel to report the details of any fogging or blackening of photographic or X-ray film, and medical officers were ordered to report diseases of unknown etiology involving fatigue, nausea, leukopenia or erythema.
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In 1959, he was appointed Chief of Hematology and Research Associate at the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, where he did research on anemia, leukopenia, myelodysplasia in atomic bomb survivors, and adopted Mitsunori, a Japanese orphan.
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The application of ribavirin demands a close monitoring of the animal due the risk of leukopenia; also, the ingestion of long-chain tryglicerides ( fats ) is needed to better absorb the drug, and for preservation of gastric tissues, which are quite susceptible to it.
