Results of the implementation of the PETHEMA LPA 99 protocol for treating children with acute promyelocytic leukemia in Bogotá, Colombia
| Autor: | Carlos Alberto Pardo-Gonzalez, Jymmy Javier Lagos-Ibarra, Adriana Linares-Ballesteros, Isabel Cristina Sarmiento-Urbina, Agustín Darío Contreras-Acosta, Edgar Vladimir Cabrera-Bernal, Gloria Inés Uribe-Botero, Gisela Barros-García, Nelson Hernando Aponte-Barrios |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | Revista de la Facultad de Medicina, Vol 69, Iss 2 (2021) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0120-0011 2357-3848 |
| DOI: | 10.15446/revfacmed.v69n2.80152 |
| Popis: | Introduction: In the United States, between 4 and 8% of children with acute myeloid leukemia have acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), but a higher incidence of this malignancy has been reported in Latin America (20%-28%). The implementation of the PETHEMA LPA 99 protocol, designed for the treatment of APL in adults, has shown an overall survival (OS) >80%. Objective: To describe the results obtained after the implementation of the PETHEMA LPA 99 protocol to treat children with APL at the Fundación Hospital Pediátrico La Misericordia in Bogotá, D.C., Colombia. Materials and methods: Descriptive and retrospective cohort study. The medical records of 30 pediatric patients ( |
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