Anatom3DRed marrow
Medulla ossium rubra · Červená kostní dřeň
Blood & marrow
Looks like
Soft red tissue filling the spongy bone of the pelvis, spine, ribs, breastbone and skull in adults.
What it does
Makes red cells, white cells and platelets.
Keeping it well
Replaced by cancers such as leukaemia or myeloma; tiredness, infections and bruising together need a blood count.
Related conditions
- Acute leukaemia (AML & ALL)
- African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)
- Anaemia
- Aplastic anaemia & marrow failure
- Chronic leukaemia (CML & CLL)
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- Dehydration & electrolyte disorders
- Delirium
- Dengue & mosquito-borne fevers
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Disseminated intravascular coagulation
- Ebola virus disease
- Essential thrombocythaemia
- G6PD deficiency (favism)
- Haemophilia & bleeding disorders
- Hereditary spherocytosis
- High cholesterol
- Immune thrombocytopenia
- Iron deficiency
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Mast cell activation & mastocytosis
- Maternal (puerperal) sepsis
- MGUS (monoclonal gammopathy)
- MRSA and resistant staph infection
- Multiple myeloma
- Myelodysplastic syndromes
- Myelofibrosis
- Neonatal sepsis
- Neutropenic sepsis
- Parvovirus B19 (fifth disease)
- Polycythaemia vera
- Postpartum haemorrhage
- Radiation injury
- Scrub typhus & rickettsial infections
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Thalassaemia
- Toxic shock syndrome
- Typhoid & cholera
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency
- Von Willebrand disease