Constitutional aplastic anemia refers to a syndrome characterized by chronic pancytopenia with or without several definite congenital anomalies in which there is evidence of a constitutional origin.

A college student gets over the flu, but two weeks later feels winded after climbing stairs and complains of abdominal pain.

"Typically, we may see one case of this per year, but we have seen now 10 cats with severe pancytopenia in the last four weeks," said Dr Barbara Glanemann, senior lecturer in small animal medicine ...