Abstract

SUAREZ BEYRIES, Lidia Clara et al. Acute leukemias in the elderly from Santiago de Cuba province. MEDISAN [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.4, pp.484-491. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and retrospective study of 64 patients older than 60 years with acute leukemia, assisted in the Hematology Service of "Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso" Teaching General Hospital in Santiago de Cuba was carried out during the five year period 2006-2011, to determine the main clinical and hematological characteristics at the moment of diagnosis, as well as the global survival of those affected, although the administered treatments had no healing criterium. The average age of the elderly was 70 years, in an age range of 60 to 90; while the non lymphoblastic variety represented 98.4%, and all the patients presented anemia and thrombocytopenia hematological changes, with increment in the transfusional requirements. Likewise, the blastos presence in the peripheral blood was demonstrated in 50% and the hyperleucocytosis in 59.4%, while the main causes of death were related to the cerebral hemorrhage and the progression of the disease with the multiorganic infiltration, which led to a very short survival of the members of this series

Keywords : elderly; acute leukemias; non lymphoblastic leukemia; myeloablative treatment; Hematology Service.

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