Inoue H, Matsushita K, Arima N, Hamada H, Uozumi K, Ozaki A, Akimoto M, Kawada H, Kukita T, Yoshimitsu M, Matsumoto T, Tei C. High prevalence of human T-lymphotropic virus type I carriers among patients with myelodysplastic syndrome refractory anemia with excess of blasts (RAEB), RAEB in transformation and acute promyelocytic leukemia.
Leuk Lymphoma 2008;
49:315-21. [PMID:
18231919 DOI:
10.1080/10428190701799019]
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Abstract
We examined human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) infection among patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), refractory anemia with excess of blasts (RAEB)/RAEB in transformation (RAEBt) and acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). The study population consisted of 151 patients: 46 with MDS RAEB/RAEBt and 105 with AML (M1, n = 15; M2, n = 39; M3, n = 18; M4, n = 19; M5, n = 9; M6, n = 3; M7, n = 2). As a reference, we examined 92 patients with refractory anemia (RA) and 405 patients with cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Thirteen patients with RAEB/RAEBt (28.3%), 11 with AML (11.6%), 27 with RA (29.3%), and 45 with CVD (11.0%) were positive for HTLV-I. Seven AML patients with HTLV-I infection had M3 acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). The prevalences of HTLV-I infection among patients with RAEB/RAEBt (P < 0.001), APL (P = 0.001), and RA (P < 0.001) were significantly higher than that in patients with CVD. The prevalences of HTLV-I infection were still significantly higher in patients with RAEB/RAEBt (P = 0.007), APL (P = 0.017) and RA (P < 0.001) than in those with CVD matched by sex and age. Platelet counts and survival times of RAEB/RAEBt patients with infection were significantly lower than those of patients without infection.
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