Acute promyelocytic leukaemia presenting as postpartum haemorrhage.
Acute leukaemia is encountered rarely in obstetric practice, occurring once in every 100,000 pregnancies. Such cases are usually diagnosed in the second and third trimesters. We describe a patient who developed a postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) as the presenting feature of acute promyelocytic leukaemia, which, to the best of our knowledge, has not been reported previously.
Murrin
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Department of Haematology, Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley, West Mids, UK.
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Harrison
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Warwick
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D000328:Adult; D001856:Bone Marrow Examination; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015473:Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D006473:Postpartum Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011252:Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic / Q000175:diagnosis; D012074:Remission Induction