The article offers information on lymphocytic leukemia, a cancer of the bone marrow. The condition is classified as acute lymphotic leukemia (ALL) or a rapidly developing and more aggressive form, and the chronic lymphotic leukemia (CLL) or the slowly developing one. Symptoms and signs of the...
Care guide for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. Includes: possible causes, signs and symptoms, standard treatment options and means of care and support.
Care guide for Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia. Includes: possible causes, signs and symptoms, standard treatment options and means of care and support.
However, its nonspecific signs and symptoms, along with its potential to involve different parts of the body, which induce polymorphic clinical signs, make early diagnosis difficult. In this case, for the first time, we present a patient with pansinusitis due to Nocardia who was also receiving...
Tell your healthcare provider right away if you have any of the following signs or symptoms of TLS: Nausea Vomiting Diarrhea Lack of energy Serious Infections: Serious infections can happen during and after treatment with RITUXAN, and can lead to death. RITUXAN can increase your risk of ...
CLL is an indolent malignancy characterized by increased production of mature but dysfunctional B lymphocytes. The primary disease sites include peripheral blood, spleen, lymph node, and bone marrow. Signs and symptoms are absent in many patients, but when present, include B symptoms (fevers, night...
The early symptoms and signs of CLL include fatigue, reduced exercise tolerance, enlarged lymph nodes, and splenomegaly. Fever, weight loss, and impairment of bone marrow function, with anemia, bleeding and susceptibility to infection are characteristic of severe or advanced disease. In the great ...
In most patients, the diagnosis of CLL is an incidental one, made when ablood countis performed without any clinical suspicion of leukemia. These patients have no abnormal physical findings nor any symptoms resulting from the leukemia. In other patients with more advanced disease, the typical clini...
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is an indolent lymphoproliferative neoplasm of mature peripheral circulating B cells. It is the most common leukemia in adults of the western hemisphere. According to the WHO classification, CLL and small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL), are considered to be one disease...
IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: The incidence of leptomeningeal CLL is more common than previously described and can be recognized by attention to certain symptoms and signs. This case presentation and literature review reveals that, in many cases, leptomeningeal lymphomatosis is reversible with the use of...