Some cases of MDS cause bone marrow to lack platelets. This condition, which is known as thrombocytopenia, causes an individual to bleed not only easily, but ceaselessly as well. Without a sufficient amount of platelets, the blood has a difficult time clotting. A person with thrombocytopenia, and certain types of MDS, has a count below 150,000 platelets per micro-liter of blood.

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