Oncohematology

MDS Transformation to Acute Myeloid Leukemia

A clinical case of leukemic transformation of MDS to acute myeloid leukemia: hyperleukocytosis, 46% blasts in peripheral blood, anemia, and thrombocytopenia.

Peripheral blood of an 83-year-old female patient diagnosed with MDS, leukocyte count 84.05 × 109/L, erythrocytes 2.96 × 109/L, hemoglobin 78 g/L, platelets 96 × 10^9/L, 46% blasts in the differential count, hypogranular myelocytes, erythrokaryocytes present, transformation to acute myeloid leukemia, myelomonocytic variant cannot be excluded, awaiting sternal puncture.

🙏 The publication was kindly provided by KDL physician Alla Alekseenkova CHUZ KB RZHD-Meditsina, Smolensk