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Pregnancy-induced leukocytosis: A case report
BACKGROUND: Pregnancy is a complex physiological process. Physiological leukocytosis occurs often and is mainly associated with increased neutrophil counts, especially in the third trimester of pregnancy. Non-congenital leukocytosis with white blood cell counts above 20 × 10(9)/L lasting 13 wk durin...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9851002/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36683643 http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v10.i36.13349 |
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author | Wang, Xi Zhang, Yang-Yang Xu, Yang |
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description | BACKGROUND: Pregnancy is a complex physiological process. Physiological leukocytosis occurs often and is mainly associated with increased neutrophil counts, especially in the third trimester of pregnancy. Non-congenital leukocytosis with white blood cell counts above 20 × 10(9)/L lasting 13 wk during pregnancy is rare and has been reported occasionally. Herein, we present a case of pregnancy-induced leukocytosis. CASE SUMMARY: We present the case of a 33-year-old Chinese woman at 27 wk of gestation who had a leukocytosis complication. No abnormalities were detected in the examinations before pregnancy or in the first trimester. From the third trimester of pregnancy, the patient began to suffer from asymptomatic leukocytosis. We administered antibiotics to treat the patient; however, the complication persisted until the patient underwent a cesarean section after 40(+3 )wk of gestation. One day after the cesarean section, the patient’s neutrophil count returned to normal. After 2 years of follow-up, we found that the patient and baby were healthy. CONCLUSION: Pregnancy-induced leukocytosis seems to be associated with immunoregulation and pregnancy termination may be the most effective treatment approach for pregnancies complicated with malignant leukocytosis. |
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spelling | pubmed-98510022023-01-20 Pregnancy-induced leukocytosis: A case report Wang, Xi Zhang, Yang-Yang Xu, Yang World J Clin Cases Case Report BACKGROUND: Pregnancy is a complex physiological process. Physiological leukocytosis occurs often and is mainly associated with increased neutrophil counts, especially in the third trimester of pregnancy. Non-congenital leukocytosis with white blood cell counts above 20 × 10(9)/L lasting 13 wk during pregnancy is rare and has been reported occasionally. Herein, we present a case of pregnancy-induced leukocytosis. CASE SUMMARY: We present the case of a 33-year-old Chinese woman at 27 wk of gestation who had a leukocytosis complication. No abnormalities were detected in the examinations before pregnancy or in the first trimester. From the third trimester of pregnancy, the patient began to suffer from asymptomatic leukocytosis. We administered antibiotics to treat the patient; however, the complication persisted until the patient underwent a cesarean section after 40(+3 )wk of gestation. One day after the cesarean section, the patient’s neutrophil count returned to normal. After 2 years of follow-up, we found that the patient and baby were healthy. CONCLUSION: Pregnancy-induced leukocytosis seems to be associated with immunoregulation and pregnancy termination may be the most effective treatment approach for pregnancies complicated with malignant leukocytosis. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2022-12-26 2022-12-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9851002/ /pubmed/36683643 http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v10.i36.13349 Text en ©The Author(s) 2022. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Case Report Wang, Xi Zhang, Yang-Yang Xu, Yang Pregnancy-induced leukocytosis: A case report |
title | Pregnancy-induced leukocytosis: A case report |
title_full | Pregnancy-induced leukocytosis: A case report |
title_fullStr | Pregnancy-induced leukocytosis: A case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Pregnancy-induced leukocytosis: A case report |
title_short | Pregnancy-induced leukocytosis: A case report |
title_sort | pregnancy-induced leukocytosis: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9851002/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36683643 http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v10.i36.13349 |
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