An Acute Leukaemia Masquerading as Immune Thrombocytopaenic Purpura (ITP)? A Case Report

This is a case report of a 35 year old female with diagnosed Immune Thrombocytopaenic Purpura (ITP) that was strangely followed by acute myeloid leukaemia at 10 months post diagnosis of ITP. She was managed as ITP using prednisolone 45 mg daily for 10 months with good response. She also synchronousl...

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Autor principal: Olaniyi, J.A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Libertas Academica 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3785378/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24179370
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description This is a case report of a 35 year old female with diagnosed Immune Thrombocytopaenic Purpura (ITP) that was strangely followed by acute myeloid leukaemia at 10 months post diagnosis of ITP. She was managed as ITP using prednisolone 45 mg daily for 10 months with good response. She also synchronously carried a pregnancy to term and safe delivery. Shortly after delivery, she represented with gingival bleeding and peripheral film review and subsequent bone marrow cytology was in keeping with AML-M4 subtype. She died shortly after diagnosis without being able to receive chemotherapy.
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spelling pubmed-37853782013-10-31 An Acute Leukaemia Masquerading as Immune Thrombocytopaenic Purpura (ITP)? A Case Report Olaniyi, J.A. Clin Med Case Rep Case Report This is a case report of a 35 year old female with diagnosed Immune Thrombocytopaenic Purpura (ITP) that was strangely followed by acute myeloid leukaemia at 10 months post diagnosis of ITP. She was managed as ITP using prednisolone 45 mg daily for 10 months with good response. She also synchronously carried a pregnancy to term and safe delivery. Shortly after delivery, she represented with gingival bleeding and peripheral film review and subsequent bone marrow cytology was in keeping with AML-M4 subtype. She died shortly after diagnosis without being able to receive chemotherapy. Libertas Academica 2009-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC3785378/ /pubmed/24179370 Text en © 2009 by the authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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title An Acute Leukaemia Masquerading as Immune Thrombocytopaenic Purpura (ITP)? A Case Report
title_full An Acute Leukaemia Masquerading as Immune Thrombocytopaenic Purpura (ITP)? A Case Report
title_fullStr An Acute Leukaemia Masquerading as Immune Thrombocytopaenic Purpura (ITP)? A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed An Acute Leukaemia Masquerading as Immune Thrombocytopaenic Purpura (ITP)? A Case Report
title_short An Acute Leukaemia Masquerading as Immune Thrombocytopaenic Purpura (ITP)? A Case Report
title_sort acute leukaemia masquerading as immune thrombocytopaenic purpura (itp)? a case report
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