Thrombotic complications are known as accepted feature of acute myeloid leukemia and tend to occur in patients with hyperleucocytosis. Acute myocardial infarction, though reported is a rare clinical presentation in patients with this subtype of leukemia. We describe an unusual case of acute myeloid leukemia in a patient with leucopenia presenting with an acute myocardial infarction. The possibl...

Leukaemic infiltration of the lungs may occur in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). Pulmonary infiltrates are usually microscopic and invariably associated with hyperleucocytosis. Four AML patients with respiratory symptoms and low leucocyte counts underwent standard chest radiography, bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage and high-resolution computerized tomography (HRCT) of the lungs. HRCT sca...

The patient’s physical examination revealed stridor with diffuse polyphonic crackles on auscultation, normal blood pressure, a rapid and steady heart rate (148 bpm), and low oxyhemoglobin saturation at 90% on the pulse oximeter despite 2 liters per minute of additional oxygen and a 37.5 ° C temperature. Chest X-ray showed, besides a significant known sinistro-convex scoliosis, partial atelectas...

of the thighs. These injections were absolutely painless and the little discomfort which they had after repeated injections passed off quickly without much inconvenience to the patients. In all the cases the hectic temperature went down rapidly with each successive injection. It relieved their distressing cough and diminished sputum steadily. The signs in the chest cleared up after a course of ...

Background: Atypical chronic myeloid leukemia (aCML) treated with decitabine is never reported. Methods: We admitted a 69-year-old man with splenomegaly, hyperleucocytosis, thrombocytopenia and anemia, then morphology, immunology, cytogenetics and molecular biology analysis of bone marrow were performed and the diagnosis of aCML was made. The patient was initially treated with decitabine chemot...

The patient’s physical examination revealed stridor with diffuse polyphonic crackles on auscultation, normal blood pressure, a rapid and steady heart rate (148 bpm), and low oxyhemoglobin saturation at 90% on the pulse oximeter despite 2 liters per minute of additional oxygen and a 37.5 ° C temperature. Chest X-ray showed, besides a significant known sinistro-convex scoliosis, partial atelectas...

1. The importance of the leucocyte in the resistance of animals to experimental pneumonia is emphasized by the fact that animals treated with benzol, a leucotoxic substance, rapidly succumb to the disease, while animals treated in like manner with toluol, a very similar chemical substance causing no leucopenia, show no decreased resistance. 2. The rôle of the leucocyte in the resistance of anim...

A 68-year-old man presented with a generalized papular eruption with oedema of the face and the hands, fever and pustulosis in intertriginous areas which had begun 1 day after starting treatment with EuvanolA nasal spray (plant extracts and benzalkonium chloride) and DolirhumA (paracetamol and pseudoephedrine). He has been hospitalized 8 years before for a similar eruption associated with hyper...