Spontaneous Complete Remission in a Patient with Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Severe Sepsis

Without treatment, acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is almost always fatal. Spontaneous remission of AML is a rare phenomenon and usually with a short duration. The exact mechanisms are unknown. However, its association with infection and blood transfusions has been described. We report a 53-year-old ma...

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Autores principales: Mozafari, Rambod, Moeinian, Mahsa, Asadollahi-Amin, Ali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5546120/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28811942
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9593750
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description Without treatment, acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is almost always fatal. Spontaneous remission of AML is a rare phenomenon and usually with a short duration. The exact mechanisms are unknown. However, its association with infection and blood transfusions has been described. We report a 53-year-old male who presented with severe sepsis and who was diagnosed with AML (M4). He has experienced complete spontaneous remission with relatively long duration. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first case of spontaneous remission described in Iran.
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spelling pubmed-55461202017-08-15 Spontaneous Complete Remission in a Patient with Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Severe Sepsis Mozafari, Rambod Moeinian, Mahsa Asadollahi-Amin, Ali Case Rep Hematol Case Report Without treatment, acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is almost always fatal. Spontaneous remission of AML is a rare phenomenon and usually with a short duration. The exact mechanisms are unknown. However, its association with infection and blood transfusions has been described. We report a 53-year-old male who presented with severe sepsis and who was diagnosed with AML (M4). He has experienced complete spontaneous remission with relatively long duration. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first case of spontaneous remission described in Iran. Hindawi 2017 2017-07-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5546120/ /pubmed/28811942 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9593750 Text en Copyright © 2017 Rambod Mozafari et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Spontaneous Complete Remission in a Patient with Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Severe Sepsis
title_fullStr Spontaneous Complete Remission in a Patient with Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Severe Sepsis
title_full_unstemmed Spontaneous Complete Remission in a Patient with Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Severe Sepsis
title_short Spontaneous Complete Remission in a Patient with Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Severe Sepsis
title_sort spontaneous complete remission in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia and severe sepsis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5546120/
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