Document Type
Article
Department
Medical College Pakistan
Abstract
Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is a clonal stem-cell disorder characterized by dyshematopoiesis. We report a patient who presented with cytopenias and microangiopathic hemolytic anemia. Chromosome microarray analysis (CMA), using single nucleotide polymorphism arrays, on peripheral blood revealed genomic imbalances indicative of MDS, which was confirmed by bone marrow examination. This report highlights the importance of suspecting MDS in patients with cytopenias and microangiopathic hemolytic anemia. CMA of peripheral blood may assist in the preliminary diagnosis of MDS, representing a comparatively less invasive diagnostic procedure and may aid bone marrow evaluation when an aspirate sample is insufficient for conventional cytogenetic analysis.
Publication (Name of Journal)
Leukemia Research Reports
Recommended Citation
Zahid, M. F.,
Khan, N.,
Pei, J.,
Testa, J. R.,
Dulaimi, E.
(2016). Genomic imbalances in peripheral blood confirm the diagnosis of myelodysplastic syndrome in a patient presenting with non-immune hemolytic anemia. Leukemia Research Reports, 5, 23-26.
Available at:
https://ecommons.aku.edu/pakistan_fhs_mc_mc/60
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.