Acute Myelogenous Leukemia as a Rare Cause of Duodenal Ulcers

Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) is the most prevalent acute leukemia and is defined by the presence of myeloid blasts in the blood or bone marrow. Rarely, AML can be present in the gastrointestinal tract. We present a patient with AML undergoing treatment with decitabine who presented with hemateme...

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Autores principales: Sobotka, Lindsay A., Crilley, Tessa, Levine, Edward, Afzali, Anita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6722383/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31620543
http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.0000000000000153
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description Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) is the most prevalent acute leukemia and is defined by the presence of myeloid blasts in the blood or bone marrow. Rarely, AML can be present in the gastrointestinal tract. We present a patient with AML undergoing treatment with decitabine who presented with hematemesis. He underwent endoscopy which revealed two 5 mm duodenal ulcers that were biopsied, and pathology was consistent with AML. Endoscopy should be considered in patients with leukemia who present with nausea, vomiting, or signs of bleeding to evaluate for gastrointestinal involvement. Patients diagnosed with AML are treated with chemotherapy.
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spelling pubmed-67223832019-10-16 Acute Myelogenous Leukemia as a Rare Cause of Duodenal Ulcers Sobotka, Lindsay A. Crilley, Tessa Levine, Edward Afzali, Anita ACG Case Rep J Case Report Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) is the most prevalent acute leukemia and is defined by the presence of myeloid blasts in the blood or bone marrow. Rarely, AML can be present in the gastrointestinal tract. We present a patient with AML undergoing treatment with decitabine who presented with hematemesis. He underwent endoscopy which revealed two 5 mm duodenal ulcers that were biopsied, and pathology was consistent with AML. Endoscopy should be considered in patients with leukemia who present with nausea, vomiting, or signs of bleeding to evaluate for gastrointestinal involvement. Patients diagnosed with AML are treated with chemotherapy. Wolters Kluwer 2019-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6722383/ /pubmed/31620543 http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.0000000000000153 Text en © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of The American College of Gastroenterology. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal.
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