Wuchereria bancrofti: Unusual Presentation as Pancytopenia
Published: July 1, 2016 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2016/.8084
Mili Jain, Ayush Shukla, Ashutosh Kumar, Rashmi Kushwaha, Uma Shankar Singh
1. Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, UP, India.
2. Senior Resident, Department of Clinical Hematology, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, UP, India.
3. Professor, Department of Pathology, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, UP, India.
4. Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, UP, India.
5. Professor, Department of Pathology, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, UP, India.
Correspondence
Dr. Mili Jain,
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, UP-226003, India.
E-mail: milijain786@gmail.com
Wuchereria bancrofti is an endemic filarial nematode spread by a mosquito vector. The clinical manifestations vary from asymptomatic microfilaremeia to lymhoedema. We report two cases of microfilaria of Wuchereria bancrofti in bone marrow presenting as peripheral pancytopenia. The patient did not have any classical features of lymphoedema or elephantiasis. The diagnostic demonstration of microfilaria with unusual presentations has been done in cytology specimens from various sites. Microfilaria infection in association with peripheral blood pancytopenia has been rarely reported. An aetiopathological co-relation of these haematological manifestations of microfilaria needs further investigation.
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