The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics
2009 , Vol 51 , Num 3
Cystic fibrosis with acute myelogenous leukemia
Units of Pediatric Hematology1,Pulmonology2,Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey3,
Hematologic malignancies including acute leukemias rarely associate with
cystic fibrosis (CF). In this paper, we describe a case who was diagnosed with
CF when she was three months old and presented with acute myelogenous
leukemia (AML) at the age of 17 years. Although she received reduced doses
of chemotherapy because of her clinical status she responded well. She is
the first CF patient who developed AML in our department among 296 CF
patients over a 22-year period.
Keywords :
acute myeloblastic leukemia, children, cystic fibrosis.