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Yamauchi K, Arimori S. Basophilic crisis in chronic myelogenous leukemia: case report and literature review in Japan. JAPANESE JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 1990; 29:334-40. [PMID: 2273616 DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine1962.29.334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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A 37-year-old female with Ph1-positive chronic myelogenous leukemia developed basophilic crisis 11 months after diagnosis of the disease. Splenomegaly was absent throughout most of the course. The survival duration from the blastic crisis was 5.5 months. Eleven cases in Japanese literature are reviewed.
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Baranger L, Baruchel A, Leverger G, Schaison G, Berger R. Monosomy-7 in childhood hemopoietic disorders. Leukemia 1990; 4:345-9. [PMID: 2201828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Acquired pure monosomy-7 is associated with various myeloproliferative disorders (MPD), myelodysplasias (MDS), and acute myeloblastic leukemias (AML) in children and a poor prognosis. A series of 14 malignant blood disorders with pure monosomy-7 in children (eight MPD, two refractory anemia with excess of blasts, (RAEB), and four AML) is reported and compared with cases in the literature. The median age is significantly different in the patients with MPD and those with MDS or AML: 23, 80.5, and 112 months, respectively. The outcomes of MPD and RAEB are characterized by a high risk of rapid blastic transformation and resistance to polychemotherapy. Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) seems to be the best treatment, and one survival of two years in complete remission after autologous BMT in a child with AML is reported. Several myeloid cell lineages are involved in the proliferation, which partly explains the difficulties of cytologic classification and suggests that a pluripotent stem-cell is at the origin of the disease.
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Okabe M, Kunieda Y, Saiki I, Shikano T, Kakinuma M, Miyazaki T. Blast crisis accompanied with occurrence of the point-mutational activation of N-ras proto-oncogene and the chromosomal abnormality inv(3q) in chronic myelogenous leukemia presenting thrombocytosis. Leukemia 1990; 4:381-2. [PMID: 2201830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- Blast Crisis/genetics
- Blast Crisis/pathology
- Chromosome Inversion
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Genes, ras
- Humans
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/genetics
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/pathology
- Middle Aged
- Mutation
- Proto-Oncogene Mas
- Thrombocytosis/pathology
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Canellos GP. Clinical characteristics of the blast phase of chronic granulocytic leukemia. Hematol Oncol Clin North Am 1990; 4:359-67. [PMID: 2182596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The newer biologic and cytogenetic features of the blastic phase of chronic granulocytic leukemia are presented. The complexity and heterogeneity of Ph positive blastic leukemia is emphasized.
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Ferrari S, Tagliafico E, D'Incá M, Ceccherelli G, Manfredini R, Selleri L, Donelli A, Sacchi S, Torelli G, Torelli U. Ratios between the abundance of messenger RNA and the corresponding protein of two growth-related genes, c-myc and vimentin, in leukemia blast cells. Cancer Res 1990; 50:1988-91. [PMID: 2180559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The abundance of the mRNAs of two growth-related genes, vimentin and c-myc, and that of the corresponding proteins have been studied in unstimulated and phytohemagglutinin-stimulated lymphocytes as well as in 18 populations of leukemic blast cells. The quantitative assay was carried out by densitometric scanning of Northern and Western blots. In normal lymphocytes the mRNA and the protein of both genes were almost undetectable. The phytohemagglutinin stimulation led to a sharp increase of the mRNA and the proteins of vimentin and c-myc. The increase was followed by a progressive fall of the gene products. The rate of decrease of the two mRNAs was similar to that of the corresponding proteins. In some leukemic populations very similar amounts of the vimentin protein were accompanied by amounts of the mRNA differing at least 25 times. Not unlikely, very similar amounts of p62c-myc corresponded to mRNA abundances differing at least 16 times. The coordinated biogenesis of both messenger RNAs and proteins, which occurs in mitogen-stimulated lymphocytes, is substituted, in approximately 30% of the leukemic blast cell populations, by molecular events leading to the accumulation of an excess of mRNA.
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Kimura A, Fujimoto T, Inada T, Imamura N, Oguma N, Kajihara H, Mtasiwa DM, Katoh O, Fujimura K, Kuramoto A. Blastic transformation in essential thrombocythemia. In vitro differentiation of blast cells into granulocytic, erythroid, and megakaryocytic lineages. Cancer 1990; 65:1538-44. [PMID: 2311065 DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(19900401)65:7<1538::aid-cncr2820650715>3.0.co;2-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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A 57-year-old man with essential thrombocythemia (ET) developed myelofibrosis, that progressed to a blastic transformation state. The characteristics of the blastic cells were serially studied both morphologically and phenotypically as well as in cell culture. The blastic cells that were first detected in peripheral blood had features of myeloid stem cells with slight differentiation toward megakaryocytic lineage. However, later in the course, most of the blastic cells were immature. During culture in the presence of human plasma-derived serum (PDS), some blastic cells obtained at the initial stage differentiated, mainly to both granulocytes and macrophages morphologically, but later tended to differentiate into both megakaryocytes and macrophages. Finally the blasts appeared to have lost their ability to differentiate morphologically. However, the blasts formed mixed colonies consisting of erythroblasts, granulocytes, macrophages, and immature blasts when cultured in methylcellulose with PHA-leukocyte conditioned medium. In addition, the blastic cells in suspension culture strongly expressed phenotypic features which are characteristic of erythroblasts, in the presence of both PDS and 12-0-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate (TPA), whereas they expressed features of megakaryoblasts in the presence of PDS alone. These results suggest that essential thrombocythemia is of myeloid stem cell origin. This is the first case in the literature in which a clonal evolution in ET has been followed closely, essential events were identified serially, and the blastic cells, which appeared as a result of the progression of ET, were found to have the capability to differentiate toward the three myeloid lineages.
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Niikura H, Fujita K, Terada H, Haga A, Yamashina A. [Acquisition of Philadelphia chromosome with bcr rearrangement concomitant with transformation of refractory anemia with excess of blasts with 8 trisomy into acute myelogenous leukemia]. [RINSHO KETSUEKI] THE JAPANESE JOURNAL OF CLINICAL HEMATOLOGY 1990; 31:335-40. [PMID: 2366338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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A case of Philadelphia (Ph1) chromosome positive acute myelogeneous leukemia (AML) following a refractory anemia with excess of blasts (RAEB) with 8 trisomy is reported. The 80-year-old man developed pancytopenia during the course of follow-up after the surgical operation of the carcinoma of the sigmoid colon and the rectum for which no irradiation therapy nor chemotherapy had been applied. The diagnosis of RAEB was made according to the diagnostic criteria proposed by FAB co-operative group. Chromosomal analysis revealed 8 trisomy in 54% of the metaphases of bone marrow cells. The remainders showed normal karyotype without Ph1 chromosome. He was on androgenic steroid and activated Vitamin D3 without significant changes in the clinical and the hematological features until 3 months later when many atypical blasts appeared in the peripheral blood. The diagnosis of AML (M2) was made. Chromosomal analysis revealed Ph1 chromosome with the typical 9;22 translocation in 100% of the examined cells. 8 trisomy was not detected any more. Southern blot analysis using bcr probe showed bcr rearrangement. He was treated with a small doses of Ara-C. There was some reduction in the number of blasts in the peripheral blood. However, he died of septicemia 2 months later. The present case indicates that Ph1 positive acute leukemia with bcr rearrangement is not necessarily considered as a blastic transformation of chronic myelogeneous leukemia and such a cytogenic abnormality can appear in a leukemic transformation of myelodysplastic syndrome.
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MESH Headings
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Anemia, Refractory, with Excess of Blasts/genetics
- Anemia, Refractory, with Excess of Blasts/pathology
- Blast Crisis/pathology
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8
- Gene Rearrangement
- Humans
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/genetics
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/pathology
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute/genetics
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute/pathology
- Male
- Trisomy
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Okamoto T, Akagi T, Tamura A, Miyazaki E, Kobaba R, Inoue N, Sinohara Y, Takemoto Y, Kousaki M, Kanamaru A. [Mixed blast crisis with the cytogenetic evidence of three clonal evolutions]. [RINSHO KETSUEKI] THE JAPANESE JOURNAL OF CLINICAL HEMATOLOGY 1990; 31:352-8. [PMID: 2366340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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A 46-year-old man was diagnosed as having chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) in chronic phase in Dec. 1985. In Dec. 1987, anemia and leukocytopenia progressed, and the percentage of blast cells increased in the bone marrow. The blast cells were lymphoblastoid and positive for TdT. It was treated as a lymphoid crisis with vincristine and prednisolone, and complete remission was achieved. However, the blasts (11%) were observed in the bone marrow in Mar. 1988, and the chromosomal analysis revealed 46, XY, t (2q-; 11q+), t (9q+; 22q-) in 13 out of 20 cells. In June, the percentage of the blasts increased again, but chromosomal analysis showed a different karyotype, 46, XY, t(2p-; 11p+), t(9q+; 22q-) which was observed in 9 out of 10 cells. Then, myeloblastoid cells increased rapidly in spite of the chemotherapy in Dec. 1988. The chromosomal analysis showed 46, XY, 2p-, 7q-, 9q+, 11p+, 22q- in all analyzed cells. The rearrangement of the bcr gene could be detected by the Southern blotting. The blasts were positive for CD7, CD11, CD13, CD33, CD36, CD41 and CD42, suggesting that the blasts had the surface phenotypes of both myeloid and megakaryocytoid-lineage. This is a case with the mixed blast crisis that changed from the lymphoid to the myelo-megakaryocytoid in nature, in which three clonal evolutions were observed during the clinical course.
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Ikeda T, Kawakami K, Anazawa H, Furuta I, Otsuji N, Miwa H, Ohno T, Kita K, Shirakawa S. A case of chronic myelocytic leukemia in blast crisis: the myeloblasts became overt from lymphoid and myeloid mixed population of the blast crisis cells after chemotherapy. NIHON KETSUEKI GAKKAI ZASSHI : JOURNAL OF JAPAN HAEMATOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1990; 53:62-9. [PMID: 2330807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Immunophenotypes and genotypes were analyzed for a case of chronic myelocytic leukemia in blast crisis (BC). In the early stage of BC (early BC), the blasts consisted of lymphoid-myeloid cells, but in the later stage of BC (late BC), they were myeloid cells, morphologically and phenotypically. On Southern blot of DNAs in early BC, a single rearranged fragment of immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) genes was detected, whereas IgH genes were in germline configuration in both initial chronic phase and late BC. A clone which had a rearranged IgH gene in early BC, was considered to have co-existed with a clone which had the germline IgH gene. Analysis for bcr genes confirmed that the chronic phase as well as early and late BC were of the same clonal origin. Phenotypic and immunogenotypic analyses, however, revealed that at least two secondary clones emerged from the primary clone. The therapeutic effect against lymphoid population among mixed crisis cells could be evuluated not only phenotypically but also genotypically.
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Kurata H, Miwa A, Kato Y, Hirai M, Murai Y, Mori M. [Long survival of a patient presented with blastic crisis of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia]. [RINSHO KETSUEKI] THE JAPANESE JOURNAL OF CLINICAL HEMATOLOGY 1990; 31:41-5. [PMID: 2313905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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A 77-year-old man was diagnosed as having acute myelomonocytic leukemia (M4) with increased ringed sideroblasts in the bone marrow (BM) in October, 1979. Complete remission was achieved and ringed sideroblasts disappeared after two courses of CMP (cytarabine, 6-mercaptopurine, prednisolone) therapy. Following remission, there was no increase of blasts during the course of the disease, but monocytosis and dysmyelopoiesis persisted for about seven years. The monocytosis was controlled by 6-mercaptopurine. In June, 1986, however, monocytosis in peripheral blood (PB) and BM developed again, and there was severe pancytopenia and reappearance of ringed sideroblasts without increase of blasts. The patient died of pneumonia on September, 1986. Postmortem examination revealed hypercellular marrow with a few blasts, leukemic cell infiltration into spleen, liver and lymph nodes, ad lung cancer. His clinical and hematological features after remission of acute leukemia accorded with those of CMMoL. The dysmyelopoiesis observed in this case in not induced by anti-leukemic agents, but originated from the same clone as the initial AMMoL, and his disease was thought to be CMMoL converted from blastic crisis to chronic phase.
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Andreeff M, Tafuri A, Hegewisch-Becker S. Colony-stimulating factors (rhG-CSF, rhGM-CSF, rhIL-3, and BCGF) recruit myeloblastic and lymphoblastic leukemic cells and enhance the cytotoxic effects of cytosine-arabinoside. HAEMATOLOGY AND BLOOD TRANSFUSION 1990; 33:747-62. [PMID: 2323674 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-74643-7_137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Prognostic models for acute myeloid and lymphoid leukemias are presented that demonstrate that cell kinetic quiescence in acute leukemia is associated with poor response to chemotherapy, short remission duration, and survival. Recruitment of cells into the cell cycle should therefore enhance cytotoxic effects of cell cycle - specific chemotherapeutic agents. We previously demonstrated recruitment of myeloid leukemic cells by cytokines. We have now investigated whether recruitment can be used to increase cell killing by cytosine arabinoside (Ara-C). Blast cells from 16 acute leukemias were stimulated with cytokines as follows: 13 acute myeloid leukemias (AML) and 3 chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in blastic phase (1 lymphoid, 2 myeloid) were treated with recombinant human granulocyte colony stimulating factor (rhG-CSF), recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (rhG-CSF, AMGEN, 500 U/ml each), and recombinant human interleukin-3 (rhIL-3, IMMUNEX, 20 ng/ml), alone and in combination. After 48 h, at the time of maximal DNA synthesis, Ara-C (10(-3) M) was added and cell counts, cytokinetics (DNA/RNA, DNA/bromodeoxyuridine and DNA/Ki67 flow cytometry), and cell viability/clonogenicity (fluorescein diacetate/propidium iodide exclusion flow cytometry) were investigated. In all 13 cases of AML recruitment was found; in 6 of these cases over a three fold increase in S phase (P = 0.008) and a significant (P = 0.004) depletion of G0 was demonstrated. In 9 of 13 patients with AML, the effect of Ara-C was investigated, and in 3 of 5 patients with over three fold increase in S phase, Ara-C toxicity was enhanced. None of the patients with less than a three fold increase in S phase and no demonstrable recruitment from G0 had increased Ara-C cytotoxicity. Ara-C cytoreduction was paralled by reduction in clonogenicity as demonstrated by fluorescein diacetate/propidium iodide (FDA/PI) flow cytometry. Four samples of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) were treated with low molecular weight B-cell growth factor (15 kDa) and recruitment of aneuploid cells from G0 to G1 was found in all patients (from 19.3% to 84.9%). These results indicate that recruitment of leukemic cells is inducible by cytokines and that the cytotoxicity of cell cycle-specific drugs such as Ara-C can be increased. This concept is presently being tested in vivo.
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[Erythroleukemia, abdominal pain and shock]. Medicina (B Aires) 1990; 50:61-8. [PMID: 2292915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Sato H, Gottesman MM, Goldstein LJ, Pastan I, Block AM, Sandberg AA, Preisler HD. Expression of the multidrug resistance gene in myeloid leukemias. Leuk Res 1990; 14:11-21. [PMID: 2304354 DOI: 10.1016/0145-2126(90)90141-u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The human multidrug-resistance gene (MDR1) encodes an energy-dependent multidrug efflux protein responsible for the cross-resistance of cultured cells to natural product chemotherapeutic agents such as the anthracyclines and vinca alkaloids. RNA transcript levels were measured in leukemia cells obtained from 15 adult acute nonlymphocytic leukemia (ANLL) cases and 15 cases of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). Expression of MDR1 RNA was common in ANLL, and appears to be most frequent in leukemic cells of patients with the poorest response to chemotherapy. Expression of the MDR1 gene was not detectable in the peripheral white blood cells of any of the CML cases during the chronic phase, but was detectable in the immature cells present during this phase of the disease. The cells of the three blastic crisis patients contained detectable levels of MDR1 RNA. These studies support the idea that expression of the MDR1 gene contributes to drug resistance in ANLL, and may play a role in some instances in the drug-resistance of CML in blastic crisis. In contrast, studies of the level of expression of anionic glutathione transferase and DNA polymerase B failed to show any relationship between the RNA transcript levels of these enzymes and responsiveness to chemotherapy.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Aged
- Blast Crisis/genetics
- Blast Crisis/pathology
- Blotting, Northern
- DNA Polymerase I/genetics
- Drug Resistance/genetics
- Female
- Gene Expression
- Glutathione Transferase/genetics
- Humans
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/genetics
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/pathology
- Leukemia, Myeloid/enzymology
- Leukemia, Myeloid/genetics
- Leukemia, Myeloid/metabolism
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute/genetics
- Male
- Middle Aged
- RNA, Neoplasm/analysis
- Transcription, Genetic
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Sacchi S, Temperani P, Selleri L, Zucchini P, Morselli S, Vecchi A, Longo R, Torelli G, Emilia G, Torelli U. Extramedullary pleural blast crisis in chronic myelogenous leukemia: cytogenetic and molecular study. Acta Haematol 1990; 83:198-202. [PMID: 2115717 DOI: 10.1159/000205213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Two patients with Ph1-positive chronic myelogenous leukemia with pleural blastic transformation occurring before medullary involvement are presented. The clonal origin of the pleural cells identified as unclassified blasts in 1 patient and as erythroid blasts in the other was confirmed by the presence of the t(9;22) translocation and their clonal evolution by the presence of duplicated Ph1 and additional chromosome alterations. DNA obtained from the pleural blasts and peripheral blood cells of 1 patient showed an identically rearranged bcr configuration, indicating the origin of the pleural blasts from the CML clone and suggesting that this genomic event is not directly linked with the progression of disease.
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MESH Headings
- Aged
- Antigens, CD/analysis
- Blast Crisis/genetics
- Blast Crisis/immunology
- Blast Crisis/pathology
- Bone Marrow/pathology
- Chromosome Banding
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 22
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9
- Female
- Humans
- Karyotyping
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/genetics
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/immunology
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/pathology
- Middle Aged
- Translocation, Genetic
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Ishida T, Yoshimoto M, Ono A, Saitoh N, Nakano T, Higashide T, Sugiyama T, Hinota Y, Imai K, Yachi A. [CD33-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia with breast tumor and cavernous sinus tumor]. [RINSHO KETSUEKI] THE JAPANESE JOURNAL OF CLINICAL HEMATOLOGY 1989; 30:2194-8. [PMID: 2621803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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A 38-year-old woman was diagnosed as acute lymphoblastic leukemia (L2) in Oct. 1985. After VP and AdVEMP therapy, complete remission was obtained. In Oct. 1987, she noticed bilateral breast tumors and leukemic cell infiltrations were shown in a biopsy specimen of the breast tumor. Bone marrow was occupied with 94 percent blasts. The second complete remission was achieved by the AdVP therapy. In Nov. 1988, she developed double vision and photophobia. The examinations of CT and MRI showed cavernous sinus tumor, and 20 percent blasts were recognized in a bone marrow aspirate. The leukemic cells were negative for peroxidase, but were positive for both lymphoid and myeloid cell surface markers (CD2, CD5, CD7, CD33). The two color flowcytometry showed that CD5 and CD33 were simultaneously expressed on the leukemic cells.
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Almeida J, Cañizo C, Sánchez IJ, Nieto MJ, San Miguel JF, González M, Orfao A. [Study of leukemic colony-forming units (CFU-L) in non-lymphoblastic malignant hemopathies]. SANGRE 1989; 34:467-70. [PMID: 2629122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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CFU-L is considered as the clonogenic cell of acute non-lymphoblastic leukaemias (ANLL). Twenty-five malignant myelogenous hemopathies (5 blast crisis and 20 "de novo" ANLL) were studied in order to assess the proliferative capability of these cells and its relationship to FAB types and the achievement or not of complete remission (CR). The proliferative capability was assessed by culture on methylcellulose using conditioned leucocyte medium stimulated with phytohaemagglutinin as stimulating agent. Cell proliferation was observed in 21 cases, reaching 100% of the blast crisis and 80% (i.e., 16 cases) of the "de novo" ANLL. As regards the FAB types, it was found that the leukaemias with monocytic cells showed higher cell-growth than those of granulocytic lineage (90%, vs 60%). Of the patients not achieving CR (12 cases) colonies were formed in 66.6% (8 cases), while of the 8 patients who attained CR only in 3 (37.5%) were colonies observed. It was concluded that the FAB types of ANLL show different proliferative capability, which might influence the prognosis of the disease.
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Ge CW, Li DG, Hao YM. [Analysis of 30 cases of chronic myeloid leukemia with non-myeloid blast crisis]. ZHONGHUA NEI KE ZA ZHI 1989; 28:731-3, 768. [PMID: 2636091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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30 cases of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) with non-myeloid blast crisis from 1966 to 1986 in PUMC Hospital were investigated. Morphologically 18 cases were lymphoblastic, 4 histiocytic, 3 basophilic, 2 erythro-leukemic, 2 megakaryocytic, and 1 monocytic, the ratio between male and female was 3.3:1, and their age ranged from 16 to 55 years. These results suggest that blast crisis of CML may involve many other cellular derivatives than the myeloid series of the pluripotential stem cells, Spleen was not palpable among half of the patients with lymphoblastic crisis, but all the cases with blast crisis of other morphological types had enlarged lives and spleen, especially those with histiocytic and monocytic crisis of CML. Most of cases of CML with non-myeloid blast crisis had poor prognosis with survival time of less than 6 months. However, cases of CML with lymphoblastic crisis had longer survival duration than those with non-myeloid blast crisis of other types.
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Kitajima K, Adachi T, Takahashi I, Nakada H, Osada K, Fukuda S, Ohmoto E, Aoyama S, Yorimitsu S, Sanada H. [Chemotherapy of chronic myelogenous leukemia--VP(M) regimen initiated during its chronic phase, and evaluation of MCNU in the phase of blastic crisis]. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho 1989; 16:3573-9. [PMID: 2817908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Seventy-four patients in the chronic phase of Ph1-positive chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) have been treated with busulfan or other alkylating agents in a conventional way. During its chronic phase, 24 of these 74 cases had received additional intermittent therapy every 4 to 6 months, consisting of vincristine 2 mg or vindesine 3 mg per week, prednisolone 20-30 mg per day and partly 6 mercaptopurine 50 to 100 mg, combined with allopurinol 200 to 300 mg per day for 2 to 3 weeks. The 50% survival of these patients using the Kaplan-Meier's method was 73.7 months and 5-year survival was 69.6%, against 40.5 months and 14.4%, respectively, in the remaining patients. Nine patients in the blastic or accelerated phase of Ph1-positive CML have been treated with new regimens including MCNU. All cases had been refractory for usual types of induction chemotherapy. The new regimen consisted of MCNU 50-100 mg, combined with vindesine or 6-MP plus allopurinol or prednisolone. Five out of 9 cases attained complete remission and 1 partial remission. The major adverse effect of this regimen was slight liver damage. MCNU could be regarded as an useful agent in the blastic phase as well as in the chronic phase of CML.
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MESH Headings
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Allopurinol/administration & dosage
- Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols/therapeutic use
- Blast Crisis/drug therapy
- Blast Crisis/pathology
- Drug Evaluation
- Female
- Humans
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/drug therapy
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/pathology
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Accelerated Phase/drug therapy
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Accelerated Phase/pathology
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Chronic-Phase/drug therapy
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Chronic-Phase/pathology
- Male
- Mercaptopurine/administration & dosage
- Middle Aged
- Nitrosourea Compounds/administration & dosage
- Prednisolone/administration & dosage
- Remission Induction
- Vincristine/administration & dosage
- Vindesine/administration & dosage
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Leung WH, Tai YT, Lau CP, Wong CK, Cheng CH, Chan TK. Cardiac tamponade complicating leukaemia: immediate chemotherapy or pericardiocentesis? Postgrad Med J 1989; 65:773-5. [PMID: 2616408 PMCID: PMC2429848 DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.65.768.773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Although leukaemic infiltration of the pericardium is frequently observed at post-mortem, clinically evident cardiac tamponade is rare. Two cases of cardiac tamponade complicating leukaemia are presented. One patient had cardiac tamponade as the initial presentation of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and experienced complete resolution of the pericardial effusion within 6 days after chemotherapy without therapeutic pericardiocentesis. The other patient with chronic myeloid leukaemia developed cardiac tamponade requiring pericardiocentesis as the first sign of acute blastic transformation. The roles of early chemotherapy and pericardiocentesis in managing this complication are discussed.
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MESH Headings
- Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols/therapeutic use
- Blast Crisis/pathology
- Cardiac Tamponade/etiology
- Cardiac Tamponade/surgery
- Cardiac Tamponade/therapy
- Drainage
- Evaluation Studies as Topic
- Female
- Humans
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/complications
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/drug therapy
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/pathology
- Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-Cell/complications
- Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-Cell/drug therapy
- Middle Aged
- Punctures
- Recurrence
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Cason JD, Trujillo JM, Estey EH, Huh YO, Freireich EJ, Stass SA. Peripheral acute leukemia: high peripheral but low-marrow blast count. Blood 1989; 74:1758-61. [PMID: 2790200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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We report five patients who had greater than 30% peripheral blasts and less than 30% marrow blasts. By the current standards these cases would be classified as myelodysplastic syndrome. Four of five patients progressed to acute leukemia within approximately 1 1/2 months of developing greater than 30% peripheral blasts. Two of these four patients had evidence of acute leukemia by criteria other than marrow involvement at the time of presentation: one patient had evidence of multifocal dermal involvement; and the other patient had a cytogenetic abnormality, t(8;21), found predominantly in acute leukemia. The fifth patient developed acute leukemia 2 years after initial presentation with greater than 30% peripheral blasts. Although our series of patients is small, it does suggest that patients who have greater than 30% peripheral blasts should be considered an acute leukemia, even with less than 30% marrow blasts.
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Honma K, Nemoto K, Ohnishi Y, Kimura K. Blastic transformation of essential thrombocythemia. A case report. ACTA PATHOLOGICA JAPONICA 1989; 39:670-6. [PMID: 2589080 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.1989.tb02415.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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A case of blastic transformation of essential thrombocythemia (ET) is reported. A 69-year-old male was first admitted to hospital because of fever in February, 1982. He was diagnosed as having ET because of marked thrombocytosis (205.5 x 10(10)/1), absence of erythrocytosis, absence of splenomegaly, normal karyotype and no increment of blasts in the bone marrow, and normal levels of neutrophil alkaline phosphatase, vitamin B12 and folate. He was treated with busulfan, and subsequently his platelet count was well controlled for about five years. At the second admission, blasts were present in the peripheral blood, and later accounted for 49% of the total leukocyte count. Histological examination of a bone biopsy specimen showed homogeneous proliferation of blastic cells and slight reticulin fibrosis. At autopsy, the degree of bone marrow fibrosis had increased. This was considered to be a very rare case of ET with blastic transformation in the terminal phase.
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Kumar L, Kochupillai V. Meningeal leukaemia as the first manifestation of CGL blast crisis. THE NEW ZEALAND MEDICAL JOURNAL 1989; 102:450. [PMID: 2761901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Peró Silva A, García Saavedra V, Llorente A, Ugarriza A, Alonso C, Richart C. [Granulocytic sarcoma of the base of the skull in chronic myeloid leukemia]. SANGRE 1989; 34:310-2. [PMID: 2772786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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A 54 years old patient with Ph' negative chronic granulocytic leukaemia is reported, who presented rapidly progressive multiple cranial nerve palsies. A cerebral CT scan showed an invasive tumoral disease on the base of skull. Histologic examination of this mass was diagnostic for granulocytic sarcoma, which was the presentation form of an extramedullary blastic crisis. The general characteristics of granulocytic sarcoma are commented, special attention being paid to its appearance in the course of chronic granulocytic leukaemia.
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Herzog JL, Sexton M. Plum-colored nodules in a patient with chronic myelogenous leukemia. Leukemia cutis in blast phase of CML. ARCHIVES OF DERMATOLOGY 1989; 125:1128, 1131-2. [PMID: 2757412 DOI: 10.1001/archderm.125.8.1128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Mirro J, Kalwinsky DK, Grier HE, Santana VM, Mason C, Murphy SB, Dahl GV. Effective reinduction therapy for childhood acute nonlymphoid leukemia using simultaneous continuous infusions of teniposide and amsacrine. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 1989; 24:123-7. [PMID: 2731312 DOI: 10.1007/bf00263133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The combination of teniposide (VM-26) and amsacrine (AMSA) was evaluated in a dose-finding and efficacy study in 58 patients with relapsed or refractory acute leukemia. Both agents were given as simultaneous continuous infusions for 72 h through separate i.v. lines. All patients were evaluable for toxicity and 57 were evaluable for response; only 2 of 20 with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), acute mixed-lineage leukemia, or chronic myelogenous leukemia in blast crisis achieved a complete remission (CR). More encouraging was a second-remission rate of 43% (13 complete and 3 partial) in the 37 patients with acute nonlymphoid leukemia (ANLL). Responses occurred only in patients who received VM-26 doses of greater than or equal to 200 mg/m2 per day and AMSA doses of greater than or equal to 100 mg/m2 per day. Thus, the CR rate for relapsed ANLL patients who received the higher doses of both agents was 40% (13 of 33). All responders had previously received epipodophyllotoxin therapy and 40% had also received AMSA. All but one patient had severe leukopenia (less than 2.0 x 10(9) leukocytes/l) and thrombocytopenia (less than 50.0 x 10(9) platelets/l) as a results of therapy. Severe mucositis (grade 3 or 4) was the dose-limiting toxicity. Our results indicate that VM-26 plus AMSA, given by continuous infusion, is effective in the treatment of ANLL. Further phase II studies should consider using VM-26 at 200 mg/m2 per day and AMSA at 100 mg/m2 per day, but the best administration schedule remains unclear.
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MESH Headings
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Amsacrine/administration & dosage
- Amsacrine/adverse effects
- Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols/adverse effects
- Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols/therapeutic use
- Blast Crisis/drug therapy
- Blast Crisis/pathology
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Drug Evaluation
- Female
- Humans
- Infant
- Infusions, Intravenous/methods
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/drug therapy
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/pathology
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute/drug therapy
- Leukopenia/chemically induced
- Male
- Mouth Mucosa
- Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma/drug therapy
- Remission Induction
- Stomatitis/chemically induced
- Teniposide/administration & dosage
- Teniposide/adverse effects
- Thrombocytopenia/chemically induced
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