Restoration of active haemopoiesis in a patient with myelofibrosis and subsequent termination in acute myeloblastic leukaemia: Case report and review of the literature
| Autor: | D. H. Pamphilon, A. G. Prentice, P. Creamer, D. H. Keeling |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Polycythaemia medicine.medical_specialty Biopsy Polycythemia vera Bone Marrow hemic and lymphatic diseases medicine Humans Myelofibrosis business.industry Hematology General Medicine medicine.disease Pancytopenia Hematopoiesis Surgery Leukemia Myeloid Acute Haematopoiesis medicine.anatomical_structure Primary Myelofibrosis Acute Disease Female Bone marrow Stem cell Acute myeloblastic leukaemia business |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Haematology. 38:279-283 |
| ISSN: | 1600-0609 0902-4441 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1600-0609.1987.tb01177.x |
| Popis: | A patient with polycythaemia vera developed typical myelofibrosis after 15 yr. After a further 8 months, during which time she was pancytopenic and transfusion-dependent, a slow spontaneous recovery in haemopoiesis occurred and the full blood count became normal. 6 months later pancytopenia recurred and soon afterwards the patient developed acute myeloblastic leukaemia from which she died. The evolution of the later stages in this patient's illness have been documented by means of bone marrow morphology and isotopic studies. Only 2 previous reports of this kind of transformation exist in the literature, although restoration of normal or polycythaemic haemopoiesis has been reported in 8 patients with myelofibrosis. It is likely that these transformations occur because of alterations in stem cell behaviour rather than as a result of therapy. |
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