To Treat or Not to Treat: A Case of Simultaneous Discovery of Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia and Multiple Myeloma

The coexistence of multiple myeloma and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia in the same patient is a rare entity. Here we describe a case of an 80-year-old man who presented to our hospital with symptoms of dyspnea and found to have anemia and leukocytosis with peripheral monocytosis. Bone marrow biopsy...

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Autores principales: Siddiqui, Waleed Tariq, Farhan, Mariam, Nguyen, Khanh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8476195/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34603882
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17505
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description The coexistence of multiple myeloma and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia in the same patient is a rare entity. Here we describe a case of an 80-year-old man who presented to our hospital with symptoms of dyspnea and found to have anemia and leukocytosis with peripheral monocytosis. Bone marrow biopsy, flow cytometry, and fluorescence in situ hybridization studies were consistent with a laboratory diagnosis of multiple myeloma and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. Due to advanced age and multiple comorbidities, the patient was treated conservatively. At 26 months follow-up, the patient continues to do well.
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spelling pubmed-84761952021-09-30 To Treat or Not to Treat: A Case of Simultaneous Discovery of Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia and Multiple Myeloma Siddiqui, Waleed Tariq Farhan, Mariam Nguyen, Khanh Cureus Internal Medicine The coexistence of multiple myeloma and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia in the same patient is a rare entity. Here we describe a case of an 80-year-old man who presented to our hospital with symptoms of dyspnea and found to have anemia and leukocytosis with peripheral monocytosis. Bone marrow biopsy, flow cytometry, and fluorescence in situ hybridization studies were consistent with a laboratory diagnosis of multiple myeloma and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. Due to advanced age and multiple comorbidities, the patient was treated conservatively. At 26 months follow-up, the patient continues to do well. Cureus 2021-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8476195/ /pubmed/34603882 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17505 Text en Copyright © 2021, Siddiqui et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Siddiqui, Waleed Tariq
Farhan, Mariam
Nguyen, Khanh
To Treat or Not to Treat: A Case of Simultaneous Discovery of Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia and Multiple Myeloma
title To Treat or Not to Treat: A Case of Simultaneous Discovery of Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia and Multiple Myeloma
title_full To Treat or Not to Treat: A Case of Simultaneous Discovery of Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia and Multiple Myeloma
title_fullStr To Treat or Not to Treat: A Case of Simultaneous Discovery of Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia and Multiple Myeloma
title_full_unstemmed To Treat or Not to Treat: A Case of Simultaneous Discovery of Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia and Multiple Myeloma
title_short To Treat or Not to Treat: A Case of Simultaneous Discovery of Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia and Multiple Myeloma
title_sort to treat or not to treat: a case of simultaneous discovery of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia and multiple myeloma
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8476195/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17505
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