Fatal Aplastic Anemia after Hepatitis

VIRAL hepatitis and aplastic anemia are not rare. Their concurrence might therefore represent chance. However, within a four-year period, we have encountered 5 patients, all of whom died of aplastic anemia while convalescing from nonepidemic viral hepatitis. This experience suggests that more than chance may be involved and that the sequence of events may be causally related.This communication reports these 5 cases, including 4 autopsies, and compares them with 3 others found in the literature.1 All our patients were children or young adults who lived on Long Island or in New Jersey. Four were males. Pancytopenia followed the onset . . .