A Canine Case of Aplastic Anemia with Bone Marrow Hypoplasia

Abstract

A 5-year-old, female, Yorkshire terrier with gingival bleeding was revealed to have pancytopenia and hypoplasia in the bone marrow. Treatment by antibiotics, predonisolone, protein anabolic hormone, testosterone, erythropoietin and blood transfusion did not respond and died 26 days later of progressed anemia and thrombocytopenic suggillation. Hemorrhagic spots were present in most organs and the sternal marrow had only a small number of lymphocytes and plasma cells.