ResearchBib Share Your Research, Maximize Your Social Impacts
Sign for Notice Everyday Sign up >> Login

Circulating Megakaryocytes in Peripheral Blood: A Clue to Satisfactory Platelet Recovery Post Induction Chemotherapy in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Journal: Haematology International Journal (HIJ) (Vol.6, No. 1)

Publication Date:

Authors : ; ;

Page : 1-3

Keywords : Platelet recovery; Induction; Chemotherapy; Prognosis; AML;

Source : Downloadexternal Find it from : Google Scholarexternal

Abstract

Thrombocytopenia is a common hematological abnormality in newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) which may be linked to the degree of marrow infiltration by leukemic blasts as well as altered cytokine milieu in a subset of AMLs. We report the presence of circulating megakaryocytes in peripheral blood as a sign of satisfactory platelet recovery post induction chemotherapy in a pediatric subject with a favourable risk WHO category I AML with synchronous extramedullary myeloid cell tumor; and present a brief review of literature on the role of platelet recovery in AML prognosis.

Last modified: 2023-07-06 20:32:35