A sixty-one-year-old male was diagnosed with thymoma with PRCA after he complained fatigue, tinnitus, and weakness for 1 month, he received therapy with recombinant erythropoietin (rhEPO) for 1 month after the tumor was totally resected and readmitted [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Case Report A 56-year-old man presented with fatigue, dyspnea, and severe anemia. Anemia had been first noticed 18 months before admission. His medical history was otherwise notable only for major depression. [content.nejm.org]

We describe its association with pure red cell aplasia in a four year old boy who presented with progressive skin lesions, fever and pallor, and improved with corticosteroid therapy. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

mononucleosis Mumps Viral hepatitis Most cases of acute transient PRCA are caused by parvovirus B19 infection. [21, 22] Parvovirus B19 can cross the placenta in infected women and can destroy erythroid cells in the fetus and induce spontaneous abortions [emedicine.com]

Side effects were tolerable including infections; mild oral mucositis; sinus tachycardia, the increase of creatinine, transaminase, triglyceride, or cholesterol; and thrombocytopenia. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Diamond-Blackfan anemia as an unusual cause of nonimmune hydrops fetalis: a case report. Reprod Med. 40:850-854. [Medline]. Cherrick I, Karayalcin G, Lanzkowsky P. Transient erythroblastopenia of childhood. Prospective study of fifty patients. [emedicine.com]

Corticosteroid therapy can lead to osteopenia and osteoporosis and infections. PRCA can evolve into aplastic anemia and acute myelogenous leukemia, which have high morbidity and mortality rates. [emedicine.com]

H Hanaoka, Y Kaneko, S Suzuki, T Takada, M Hirakata, T Takeuchi and M Kuwana, Anti-signal recognition particle antibody in patients without inflammatory myopathy: a survey of 6180 patients with connective tissue diseases, Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology [doi.org]

A sixty-one-year-old male was diagnosed with thymoma with PRCA after he complained fatigue, tinnitus, and weakness for 1 month, he received therapy with recombinant erythropoietin (rhEPO) for 1 month after the tumor was totally resected and readmitted [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Suzuki, Overlooked non-motor symptoms in myasthenia gravis, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 84, 9, (989), (2013). Faramarz Naeim, P. Nagesh Rao, Sophie X. Song and Wayne W. [doi.org]