Presentation
Late presentation was also observed among this cohort of patients, with 70.0% presenting with advanced stages of their disease. Patients with malignancies in resource-limited settings have been documented to present late. [jmedtropics.org]
Factors associated with/or prognostic for CNS involvement is a high initial white blood cell count at presentation and a high LDH at presentation. [mdanderson.org]
Occasional residual follicles are present. Scattered plasma cells and a minor population of larger cells were typically present. (B) Breast epithelium was either absent or only focally present. [journals.sagepub.com]
At present, no significant role can be attributed to AAV vessel inflammation in stimulating oncogenesis. [hindawi.com]
Case Study 3 History and presentation. [academic.oup.com]
Entire Body System
- Fatigue
Several of the most common are weakness, fatigue, shortness of breath, easy bruising and bleeding, frequent infections, enlarged lymph nodes, distended or painful abdomen (due to enlarged abdominal organs), bone or joint pain, fractures, unplanned weight [sharecare.com]
Blood and Lymph Cancer Robert is a 12-year-old who has recently started feeling quite sick, suffering from constant headaches, fever, and fatigue. Robert has also been losing a lot of weight over the past few weeks as well. [study.com]
They are usually very, very aggressive and patients often present very sick to the hospital with symptoms such as: severe malaise and fatigue; high fevers; symptoms of anemia such as shortness of breath and severe fatigue; bone pain, as the leukemia is [mdanderson.org]
At examination, the patient had moderate mucositis and appeared to be fatigued. The central venous catheter site was not inflamed. The patient was admitted to the hospital and was given a β-lactam plus an aminoglycoside antibiotic. [academic.oup.com]
Gastrointestinal
- Abdominal Pain
Anagrelide A prostaglandin synthetase inhibitor, specifically inhibits platelet production but occasionally causes mild anemia Myeloproliferative neoplasms Palpitations, CHF, noncardiac edema, diarrhea, abdominal pain, headache, bleeding, anemia In the [accessmedicine.mhmedical.com]
In view of the case patient's acute abdominal pain, metronidazole might be a good addition to broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy. [academic.oup.com]
A 34-year-old man presented with a 6-month history of abdominal pain. CT scan showed a 9-cm mesenteric abdominal mass. On laparotomy, an unresectable mesenteric tumor was found, consistent with Castleman's disease, plasma cell variant, localized. [medscape.com]
Neurologic
- Headache
Anagrelide A prostaglandin synthetase inhibitor, specifically inhibits platelet production but occasionally causes mild anemia Myeloproliferative neoplasms Palpitations, CHF, noncardiac edema, diarrhea, abdominal pain, headache, bleeding, anemia In the [accessmedicine.mhmedical.com]
Blood and Lymph Cancer Robert is a 12-year-old who has recently started feeling quite sick, suffering from constant headaches, fever, and fatigue. Robert has also been losing a lot of weight over the past few weeks as well. [study.com]
Of note, the SM compartment is often involved in MC mediator-related symptoms such as recurrent syncope, headache, flushing, gastro-intestinal tract symptoms and, in severe cases, life-threatening anaphylactic shock. [orpha.net]
The clinical signs of SIADH vary with the degree and rapidity of onset of hyponatremia, so that the patients can manifest nausea, anorexia, headache, fatigue, muscle cramps, lethargy, seizures, respiratory depression, coma [93]. [archivesofmedicine.com]
Other toxicities that are associated with CAR T cell therapy include neurotoxicity, which can include headaches, confusion, hallucinations, dysphasia, ataxia, apraxia, facial nerve palsy, tremor, dysmetria, global encephalopathy, and even seizures [57 [jhoonline.biomedcentral.com]
Workup
Molecular testing is entrenched in the workup and management of hematological malignancies. [cancertherapyadvisor.com]
Elderly patients may also be considered by physicians to have poor prognoses (perhaps because of the frequent presence of comorbidities), and thus receive a suboptimal diagnostic workup. [bloodjournal.org]
[…] the systemic circulation. [1] Clinically, the syndrome is characterized by rapid development of hyperuricemia,hyperkalemia, hyperphosphatemia, hypocalcemia, and acute kidney injury. [2, 3] (See Pathophysiology, Etiology, Prognosis, Presentation, and Workup [emedicine.medscape.com]
The workup of the diagnosis includes the absence of BCR-ABL1 fusion and of rearrangements of PDGFRA, PDGFRB, and FGFR1. [basicmedicalkey.com]
Treatment
S/A/R pos adversely affected response to treatment and progression to secondary mast cell leukemia (n=6) or acute myeloid leukemia (n=3) while on treatment ( P P =0.03). [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
New molecular and cytogenetic methods have been connected to determination of diagnosis and treatment. [intechopen.com]
treatment of acute graft-vs-host ... [ascopost.com]
What is the best treatment for a 51-year-old woman with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of the spleen who underwent splenectomy? There was no other localization of disease. [medscape.com]
[…] diagnosis and prompt treatment [1,2,5]. [archivesofmedicine.com]
Prognosis
Prognosis Currently the overall median survival of 24 months is reported. [orpha.net]
These patients can receive adjuvant imatinib, which can improve complete remission rates despite carrying the worst prognosis of all types of lymphoblastic lymphoma. [cancertherapyadvisor.com]
The next step in the WHO classification is classifying recurrent genetic abnormalities seen in AML, because they correlate closely to prognosis The important ones are: • t(8;21) (q22;q22) [RUNX/RUNX1T1] o good prognosis • APML - t(15;17) (q22; q21) [PML [oneclass.com]
On this end, translocation t(12;21), in fact, is associated with a better prognosis, as most often seen in younger kids. This is a table looking at the types of chromosomes and the prognosis that they portend. [mdanderson.org]
Etiology
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Dexamethasone 10 mg IV twice a day should be started at the earliest sign of differentiation syndrome, even if other etiologies like sepsis or primary CHF are possible. [accessmedicine.mhmedical.com]
Etiology In the vast majority of cases, an acquired and activating mutation in KIT, mostly KITD816V, can be found in the abnormal MCs of the SM compartment as well as in the malignant cells of certain AHN types. [orpha.net]
Etiology Tumor lysis syndrome occurs most often in patients with acute leukemia with high white blood cell (WBC) counts and in those with high-grade lymphomas in response to aggressive treatment. [emedicine.medscape.com]
There is no single known cause for blood diseases; the frequency of HM varies with geography, age and ethnicity, which suggests the involvement of various etiological factors (20). [spandidos-publications.com]
Epidemiology
HAEMACARE classified HMs into groupings consistent with the latest World Health Organization classification and useful for epidemiologic and public health purposes. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Terracini, B Exploiting electronic health archives for epidemiological purposes: an experience using a standardized approach to estimate diseases in various areas of Italy. Epidemiol Prev 2008 32 3 Suppl 3 Google Scholar | Medline 10. [journals.sagepub.com]
The Danish Civil Registration System as a tool in epidemiology. Eur J Epidemiol. 2014;29(8):541–549. 6. Frank L. Epidemiology: when an entire country is a cohort. Science. 2000;287(5462):2398–2399. 7. Green A. Danish clinical databases: an overview. [dovepress.com]
Pathophysiology
This conference brings together biochemists, geneticists, molecular biologists, and clinicians interested in the pathophysiology of leukemias and lymphomas, and the development of novel therapies for these diseases. [src.faseb.org]
In these chapters we provide a more detailed look at the pathophysiology, clinical features, and treatment of the major types of hematologic malignancy, which include some of the most common cancers of children and adults. [accessmedicine.mhmedical.com]
Effective strategies to prevent and treat AD remain elusive despite major efforts to understand its basic biology and clinical pathophysiology. [annualreviews.org]
Pathophysiology Rapid tumor cell turnover results in release of intracellular contents into the circulation. This release can inundate renal elimination and cellular buffering mechanisms, leading to numerous metabolic derangements. [emedicine.medscape.com]
This unique situation may be explained by the complex array of physiological and possibly pathophysiological cell functions of PR3 [56]. [hindawi.com]
Prevention
Leukemia can also prevent the body from producing red blood cells as well. [study.com]
These abnormal blood cells, or cancerous cells, prevent your blood from performing many of its functions, like fighting off infections or preventing serious bleeding. [hematology.org]
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The authors also pointed out that prevention efforts are less effective for hematologic malignancies than for other cancers. [mdedge.com]