title: Chromosome study of 85 patients with myelodysplastic syndrome.
abstract: We studied bone marrow chromosomes in 85 consecutive patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Fifty-seven (67%) had a clone with an abnormal karyotype at diagnosis. Eight had secondary MDS, all with abnormal karyotypes. The frequency of abnormal karyotypes in the primary MDS was 64.9%. During subsequent follow-up, five patients acquired chromosome abnormalities; thus, at the end of the study, 72.0% of patients had an abnormal karyotype. The most frequent chromosome abnormalities were 5q-, +8, -7, -5, and -22. Forty patients (i.e., 70% of those with an abnormal karyotype and 47% of the whole group) had one of the karyotype abnormalities associated with secondary MDS or acute nonlymphocytic leukemia; in other words, 5q- or -5, or -7. Of all patients, 21.1% progressed into ANLL. Unfavorable prognostic factors associated with the risk of evolution into ANLL and with shorter overall survival were the presence of greater than 5% of bone marrow blasts, major chromosome abnormalities, and monosomy 7.
authors.affiliation: 3rd Medical Department, Faculty of Medicine, Praha, Czechoslovakia.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Musilova
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Michalova
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations; D002871:Chromosome Banding; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005819:Genetic Markers; D006801:Humans; D007621:Karyotyping; D007938:Leukemia / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009190:Myelodysplastic Syndromes / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics* / Q000401:mortality; D011379:Prognosis
chemical_list: D005819:Genetic Markers