We report the first case of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in a patient with multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosed within two years of receiving mitoxantrone therapy. Previously only acute forms of leukemia particularly acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) have been associated with mitoxantrone treatment in MS. This underscores the need for only using mitoxantrone in severe treatment-unresponsive cas...

Since the first description of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) in 1957 as the most malignant form of acute leukemia, several developments have paved the way to make this disease the most curable leukemia in adults and change the paradigm of cancer treatment. Therapy of APL was pioneered by Bernard et al in 1973 demonstrating a striking sensitivity to daunorubicin, probably related to signifi...

Background: Scatter grams-graphic depictions of the cell populations in a blood sample are produced by automated analyzers. These scatter grams can be employed to screen for various hematological conditions, including anemia, leukemia, and other disorders examining gram’s population distribution patterning. Aims Objectives: In this study, we wish study generated Sysmex XN-series analyzer confir...

Differentiation Syndrome (DS) has been identified in a subset of patients undergoing treatment with novel classes differentiating therapies for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) such as IDH and FLT3 inhibitors. While DS is well-known treatment-related complication promyelocytic (APL), efforts are still ongoing to standardize diagnostic parameters AML. Though the rates incidence vary, many signs symp...

Expression of a mRNA cross-hybridized to human cytomegalovirus immediate-early gene promoter-enhancer was detected in the human promyelocytic leukemia cell line HL-60. The 0.6 kilobase of NruI/SacI DNA fragment of eukaryotic expression vector pCDM8 representing human cytomegalovirus immediate-early gene promoter-enhancer was used as the probe to hybridize with polyadenylated RNA by the Northern...

In this report, we present images from a patient with acute promyelocytic leukemia who experienced several central nervous system relapses.

The promotion of an operational network between hospitals and medical schools in Iraq and in Western countries is a primary humanitarian objective of international collaboration. As a consequence of a collaborative project between the Al Mansour Hospital for Pediatrics in Baghdad and the Pediatric Unit of Hematology of "La Sapienza" University, in Rome, in October 2003 a specific all-trans-reti...

Acromegaly is an uncommon disease due to excessive amounts of growth hormone. Benign and malignant tumors have been reported in acromegalic patients. A 41-year-old female patient who had been followed up because of acromegaly by the endocrinology department for two years, was admitted to the hematology department for the evaluation of pancytopenia and the related signs and symptoms. Dopamine ag...