Acute liver failure due to liver parenchymal infiltration with acute myelogenous leukaemia in a patient with myelodysplastic syndrome

Liver involvement by acute leukaemia is rare and has a high mortality rate despite treatment. We report a case of a 66-year-old woman undergoing treatment for myelodysplastic syndrome with Vidaza (azacitidine) who presented with abnormal liver function tests. Despite negative serologic testing and u...

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Published in:BMJ Case Rep
Main Authors: Sobotka, Lindsay A, Malli, Ahmad, Chen, Wei, Mumtaz, Khalid
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2018
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Unusual Presentation of More Common Disease/Injury
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6040513/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29954762
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2018-224590
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