We describe a case of neutrophil aplasia in a woman with recurrent myasthenia gravis and a past history of thymoma. Bone marrow showed virtually absent granulopoiesis but normal erythropoiesis and megakaryopoiesis. Bone marrow cultures showed no growth of granulocyte/mononuclear cell progenitors (CFU-GM). She was treated with immunosuppression including azathioprine, and her neutrophil count returned to normal. Serum before treatment, and also an IgG fraction thereof, inhibited CFU-GM growth both in autologous‘remission’marrow and in allogeneic marrow. She remains in complete remission 36 months after starting azathioprine.This association is extremely rare, and was formerly associated with a grim progno
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