Severe hypercalcaemia and lymphoma in an HTLV-1 positive Jamaican woman: a case report

Human T cell lymphotrophic virus type-1 infection is endemic in the Afro-Caribbean community in Britain, with carriage rates of about 3%. Although there is a long latency, carriers have a 1–5% chance of developing adult T cell leukaemia/lymphoma, a condition frequently complicated by marked and refr...

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Autores principales: Lyell, Veronica, Khatamzas, Elham, Allain, Theresa
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1950877/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17651486
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-56
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author Lyell, Veronica
Khatamzas, Elham
Allain, Theresa
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Allain, Theresa
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description Human T cell lymphotrophic virus type-1 infection is endemic in the Afro-Caribbean community in Britain, with carriage rates of about 3%. Although there is a long latency, carriers have a 1–5% chance of developing adult T cell leukaemia/lymphoma, a condition frequently complicated by marked and refractory hypercalcaemia, and with a poor prognosis. We present the case of an elderly Jamaican woman with severe hypercalcaemia and a raised PTHrP who was found to have lymphoma and was positive for HTLV-1.
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spelling pubmed-19508772007-08-24 Severe hypercalcaemia and lymphoma in an HTLV-1 positive Jamaican woman: a case report Lyell, Veronica Khatamzas, Elham Allain, Theresa J Med Case Reports Case Report Human T cell lymphotrophic virus type-1 infection is endemic in the Afro-Caribbean community in Britain, with carriage rates of about 3%. Although there is a long latency, carriers have a 1–5% chance of developing adult T cell leukaemia/lymphoma, a condition frequently complicated by marked and refractory hypercalcaemia, and with a poor prognosis. We present the case of an elderly Jamaican woman with severe hypercalcaemia and a raised PTHrP who was found to have lymphoma and was positive for HTLV-1. BioMed Central 2007-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC1950877/ /pubmed/17651486 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-56 Text en Copyright © 2007 Lyell et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Lyell, Veronica
Khatamzas, Elham
Allain, Theresa
Severe hypercalcaemia and lymphoma in an HTLV-1 positive Jamaican woman: a case report
title Severe hypercalcaemia and lymphoma in an HTLV-1 positive Jamaican woman: a case report
title_full Severe hypercalcaemia and lymphoma in an HTLV-1 positive Jamaican woman: a case report
title_fullStr Severe hypercalcaemia and lymphoma in an HTLV-1 positive Jamaican woman: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Severe hypercalcaemia and lymphoma in an HTLV-1 positive Jamaican woman: a case report
title_short Severe hypercalcaemia and lymphoma in an HTLV-1 positive Jamaican woman: a case report
title_sort severe hypercalcaemia and lymphoma in an htlv-1 positive jamaican woman: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1950877/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17651486
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-56
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