Evaluation of CD38 expression in Sudanese patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Autor: Abdelgader EA; Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Al Neelain University, Khartoum, Sudan. enaamresearch@gmail.com., Eltayeb NH; Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Al Neelain University, Khartoum, Sudan., Eltahir TA; Khartoum Radioisotope Center, Khartoum, Sudan., Altayeb OA; Flow Cytometry Laboratory for Leukemia & Lymphoma Diagnosis, Khartoum, Sudan., Fadul EA; Flow Cytometry Laboratory for Leukemia & Lymphoma Diagnosis, Khartoum, Sudan., Abdel Rahman EM; Khartoum Radioisotope Center, Khartoum, Sudan., Merghani TH; Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: BMC research notes [BMC Res Notes] 2018 Nov 15; Vol. 11 (1), pp. 815. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Nov 15.
DOI: 10.1186/s13104-018-3926-0
Abstrakt: Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the cluster of differentiation-38 (CD38) expression in Sudanese patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and to determine its association with clinical and laboratory characteristics of the disease.
Results: We conducted a cross-sectional study on 99 patients diagnosed with CLL in Khartoum Oncology Hospital in Khartoum, Sudan. Immunophenotyping and CD38 expression levels were measured with four-color flowcytometry. The results of physical examination and blood analyses were used for assigning a modified Rai clinical staging system. The collected data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Science, version 22 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). According to our findings, the frequencies of 7%, 20%, and 30% cutoff levels of CD38 expressions were 68.7%, 41.4%, and 36.4% respectively. CD38 cutoff level of 7% showed a significant association with hemoglobin concentration (P = 0.04), whereas other cutoff levels showed insignificant results. All the three cutoff levels showed insignificant associations with the other clinical and laboratory variables. In conclusion, the CD38 expression at a cutoff level of 7% seems to be more valuable clinically than higher cutoff levels in Sudanese CLL patients.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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