Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with a high white blood cell (WBC) count at presentation has been associated with an increased early mortality rate, usually secondary to leukostasis. However, the value of the WBC count at ...

Sudden-onset bilateral deafness as a clinical manifestation of hyperleukocytosis in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a rare occurrence. We found only 27 clinical descriptions in 16 published papers. In this work, the ...

Sudden-onset bilateral deafness as a clinical manifestation of hyperleukocytosis in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a rare occurrence. We found only 27 clinical descriptions in 16 published papers. In this work, the ...

Leukostasis is a relatively uncommon but potentially catastrophic complication of acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). Prompt leukoreduction is considered imperative to reduce the high mortality rate in this condition. ...

Arterial gasometry is considered the gold standard for establishing a diagnosis of respiratory failure of any etiology. However, there are some circumstances in which it loses specifi city, making necessary to consider ...

We report a retrospective review of eight patients (one male), aged 19 to 31 years old, with systemic toxocariasis (visceral larva migrans), seen at the Salvador Hospital of Santiago. Four cases had heart involvement, three ...

Acute leukemia is the most common malignancy in children, and nearly 35% of all childhood cancers. Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) constitutes about 20% of acute leukemias. Initially, treatment of AML involves the ...

Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) is the most frequent leukemia in adult over 60 years of age in more than 50% of the cases represented 15 to 20% of childhood leukemias and 80% of adult leukemias, with a poor prognosis, ...

This work aimed to perform a bibliographic survey on chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in scientifc databases in order to obtain a better knowledge about this disease. CML is a myeloproliferative disease, a type of non-hereditary ...