Dizygotic twin sisters with myelokathexis: Mechanism of its neutropenia

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Dizygotic twin sisters were first found to have neutropenia at 1 year of age when evaluated for recurrent pulmonary infections. Since then they have remained neutropenic (0.05~0.5 x 109/l). Despite of their neutropenia, myeloid hyperplasia was evident on a marrow smear examination, and a number of cells were hypersegmented with fine interlobular bridging with chromatin strands and cytoplasmic vacuolation. Electron microscopy showed apoptotic cells with condensed nuclei and apoptotic bodies in the cytoplasm. Although life span, hydrogen peroxide production, phagocytosis, spreading, and chemotaxis of peripheral neutrophils were normal, the survival of bone marrow neutrophils in both infants was markedly decreased when compared with that of normal bone marrow neutrophils. During the bone marrow culture apoptotic neutrophils were observed at an earlier stage in both patients than in normal controls, biochemically and morphologically. Morphology of bone marrow neutrophils in both patients resembled that of cultured control bone marrow neutrophils. Peripheral neutropenia and appearance of characteristic neutrophils in the bone marrow in myelokathexis are considered to be an expression of apoptosis of bone marrow neutrophils.

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Taniuchi, S., Yamamoto, A., Fujiwara, T., Hasui, M., Tsuji, S., & Kobayashi, Y. (1999). Dizygotic twin sisters with myelokathexis: Mechanism of its neutropenia. American Journal of Hematology, 62(2), 106–111. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1096-8652(199910)62:2<106::AID-AJH8>3.0.CO;2-D

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