Cobalamin and Folic Acid Status in Relation to the Etiopathogenesis of Pancytopenia in Adults at a Tertiary Care Centre in North India

Table 1

Etiological diagnosis in pancytopenia.

S. No.	Diagnosis	Females	Males	Total	% of total
1	Megaloblastic anemia	40	45	85	60.7
2	Aplastic anemia	1	10	11	7.9
3	Acute leukemia^†	0	11	11	7.9
4	HIV-AIDS	0	8	8	5.7
5	Kala azar	1	7	8	5.7
6	Chronic malaria	1	3	4	2.9
7	Disseminated tuberculosis	0	3	3	2.1
8	Chronic liver disease	2	0	2	1.4
9	Lymphoma	0	1	1	0.7
10	Myelodysplastic syndrome	0	1	1	0.7
11	CML with blast crisis	0	1	1	0.7
12	Metastatic anaplastic carcinoma	0	1	1	0.7
13	Metastatic gastric carcinoma (signet cell)	1	0	1	0.7
14	Niemann Picks disease	0	1	1	0.7
15	Gaucher’s disease	1	0	1	0.7
16	Acute subdural hematoma with transient pancytopenia	1	0	1	0.7
Total		48	92	140	100

HIV-AIDS: human immunodeficiency virus-acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; CML: chronic myeloid leukemia.
^†Includes 4 patients of myeloid leukemia and 4 patients of nonmyelogenous leukemia, 2 undifferentiated leukemias, and one case of acute promyelocytic leukemia.