Measuring WBCs

• The Basics
• Reactive
• Terms

• Acute Leukemia
• Dysplasia
• Myeloproliferative

• Acute
• Chronic  

Quiz Please

This is called acute myelogneous leukemia, because in the years before treatment, patients with this disease died as if they were hit by a train.

Presenting symptoms are related to bone marrow failure as a consequence marrow replacement by the malignant population.

• Anemia
• Infections, especially pneumonia, due to neutropenia.
• Bleeding secondary to thrombocytopenia.

• 80% of cases are in adults (peak incidence 15-39 years).
• 20% of childhood leukemias.
• No sex predicliction

So what happens to cause the leukemia ?                                      Back