Study of clinical and aetiological profile of 100 patients of pancytopenia at a tertiary care centre in India.

Pancytopenia is not a disease but an important clinico-haematological entity encountered in our day-to-day clinical practice with findings that may result from a number of disease processes. A total of 100 patients of pancytopenia admitted in medicine wards of Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad, Gujuarat, India, were studied. The most common cause of pancytopenia was megaloblastic anaemia (45%) followed by infections (20%) and hypersplenism (15%).