 A plastic anemia means that there is bone marrow suppression. So patients with aplastic anemia are not only low in red blood cells but because the bone marrow also can produce white blood cells and platelets they will also have low counts of those blood cells and that term used for an overall low count of all blood cells is pancytopenia meaning that the bone marrow cannot produce any of the blood cells and therefore all counts will be low that we can see on a CBC. For all the details on aplastic anemia please head on over to YouTube to check the full video.