introduction: acute leukemia is the most common malignancy in children and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) accounts for 75% of acute leukemia cases. new treatment protocols have resulted in complete remission rates up to nearly 100% in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. today, one of the most important prognostic factors in acute lymphoblastic leukemia is intensity of the treatment....

The significance of immunophenotyping is growing day by day. Itprovides basic information in regard to classification and prognosisof acute leukemia which helps the management of patients. Thisstudy was conducted to Identify CD markers in leukemic patientsadmitted to Tabriz, in northwestern Iran. Immunophenotyping of 60patients with acute leukemia was determined. Patients with acutemyelogenous ...

Although chronic myelogenous leukemia in pregnancy is rare, its management and treatment is more difficult and complicated.Treatment of patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia includes bone marrow transplantation, however in less than 30% of patients the donor’s organ would be accepted. To this end, cytotoxic therapy is considered as an alternative therapeutic option. This option provides sa...

Abstract Background Polycythemia vera (PV) is characterized by red cell mass expansion in the peripheral blood and can be complicated with thrombosis, bleeding, evolution to acute myeloid leukemia (AML) or a fibrotic phase. Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) an acquired clonal haematopoietic stem disorder associated chronic intravascular hemolysis, venous defective hematopoiesis, frequen...

Introduction Nausea and vomiting are the most common side effects of chemotherapy in the pediatrics with cancer which affect their quality of life. Use of some methods of complementary medicine in leukemia patients is problematic. Because, leukemia patients are at risk of infection and bleeding, therefore the use of acupressure, acupuncture, and deep massage can be risky in these patients. Slow...

acute myelogenous leukemia (aml) is a hematological malignancy, which accounts for about 15-25% of childhood's leukemia. genetic factor is one of the most important predisposing elements in childhood acute leukemia, especially aml. in this case report, a rare presentation of familial aml is presented in three monozygotic triplets. two were 10 months old, and the other one was 16 months old at p...

Myeloid/lymphoid neoplasms with FGFR1 rearrangement (MLN-FGFR1) comprise a heterogeneous group of that can present as myeloproliferative neoplasm, myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative acute myeloid leukemia, T or B lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma, mixed phenotype leukemia. The overall outcome these is poor, and patients often show cytogenetic evolution gain additional chromosomal abnormalities le...

background: peripherally inserted central catheter (picc) is commonly used in nursing for patients with leukemia. the purpose of this study was to investigate the risk factors of catheter-related infection (cri) in patients with leukemia and to provide some nursing strategies based on the results. methods: clinical data from 140 patients with leukemia between may 2014 and july 2016 in haiyang p...

o bjectives: to determine the epidemiological aspect of mucormycosis, the nature of malignancies complicated by mucormycosis, the initial site of involvement and the subsequent outcome. m e thods: this was a cross-sectional study which was performed by reviewing the medical records of 95 patients with leukemia complicated with biopsy-proven mucormycosis admitted to the educational hospitals aff...