Word: anemia
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...bone marrow-the body's main factory for various elements in the blood-was taken by puncturing a hipbone with a big hypodermic needle. The hematologists who examined the marrow smears under the micro scope could not agree. Though there were enough cells present to rule out aplastic anemia, one of the deadliest forms of the disease, some of the experts thought that the abnormal cell forms suggested an obscure type of leukemia. Others said...
...chest X ray indicated recent changes in the lungs-but again, nothing definite. This and other hints suggested that the anemia might be complicated by a tuberculous infection. So the doctors at once prescribed vigorous treatment with the most potent combination of anti-tuberculosis drugs: streptomycin, PAS (para-aminosalycylic acid) and isoniazid...
...autopsy, the pathologists found no medical surprises. Idiopathic (by which doctors mean unexplained) anemia, complicated by tuberculosis, was the cause of death. And the TB overruled Mrs. Roosevelt's cherished wish that her corneas be sent to an eye bank. The infection made them unacceptable...
Later, in 1951, while working with Dr. Sidney Farber, professor of Pathology at Harvard, Dr. Uzman isolated and described the lipoprotein in Gaucher's disease, an anemia of the spleen that runs in families and is particularly common among Jews...
...Roosevelt, who presided over the White House for 12 years as the wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04, was hospitalized Sept. 26 with a lung infection and anemia, but failed to respond to treatment...