Forty patients with aplastic anemia who were being considered for bone marrow transplantation were studied by in vivo and in vitro techniques to determine if the immune system in aplastic anemia is generally affected. It was found that patients with aplastic anemia had mild lymphopenia. with levels of circulating thymus-derived and bone-marrow-derived cells that were apparently secondarily depressed . Marked monocytopenia was observed. but this finding
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