Other aplastic anemias and other bone marrow failure syndromes
This condition happens when your bone marrow stops making enough new blood cells to keep your body healthy and working properly.
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Your bone marrow is the spongy tissue found inside your bones that acts like a busy factory, constantly producing red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. In these specific bone marrow failure syndromes, that factory slows down or shuts down, meaning your body cannot make the blood cells it needs to carry oxygen, fight germs, or stop bleeding.
While many people have heard of aplastic anemia, there are 'other' related syndromes where the bone marrow fails for different or rare reasons. Because these conditions are diverse, they affect people differently, but they all share the same problem: the bone marrow is not doing its job of producing the building blocks of your blood.
Common Symptoms
- Feeling very tired, weak, or having pale skin because of a lack of red blood cells.
- Getting frequent infections or fevers because you don't have enough white blood cells to fight germs.
- Easy bruising or tiny red spots on the skin caused by a low number of platelets, which are cells that help your blood clot.
- Nosebleeds or bleeding gums that do not stop quickly.