title: [The myelodysplastic syndrome].
abstract: Clinical data of 70 patients, treated and observed with myelodysplastic syndrome between 1977 and 1989 were analysed. Two-thirds of the patients belonged to the elder age-group and a mild female predominance was registered. With the application of complex cytochemical-histological and cytogenetical methods, correct diagnosis could be established. The clinical material included patients from different morphologic subtypes: 19 with refractory anaemia (with a longer course of the illness). 20 with sideroblastic anaemia, 26 with chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia and the remaining 5 with refractory anaemia with excess of blasts (a more progressive type of the myelodysplastic syndrome, with a short duration). The mean survival of all patients were 42 months. 45 (69%) died during this period and 12 (18.5%) among them in acute myelogenous leukaemia (mean survival: 16 month). Megakaryoblastic leukaemic transformation was observed in three patients with sideroblastic refractory anaemia. Haemorrhage and infection-sepsis, due to thrombocytopenia and/or granulocytopenia, was fatal in 30 cases. In the treatment of the myelodysplastic syndrome an appropriate supportive therapy (blood transfusion, antibiotics) has a decisive importance. A more aggressive treatment with cytostatic drugs is suggested in the progressive form of the disease of younger patients and in patients with overt acute leukaemia.
authors.affiliation: Debreceni Orvostudományi Egyetem, II. Belklinika.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Iványi
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Jancsik
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kiss
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Mahunka
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Telek
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rák
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009190:Myelodysplastic Syndromes / Q000401:mortality*
vernacular_title: A myelodysplasiás szindrómáról.