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Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia - Summary

Cancer affecting lymphocytes/Mature B cell neoplasm
 • Lymphocytes accumulate in large numbers
Cancer affecting ... • Neutropenia, anemia ... microglobulin Treatment ... ’s lymphoma or acute ... #workup #oncology
Leukemias Overview: ALL, CML, AML, APML, CLL

Acute leukemias > 20% blasts in the peripheral blood smear
Acute leukemias ... Chronic leukemia ... ALL (Acute Lymphoblastic ... Lymphadenopathy AML (Acute ... Blasts APML (Acute
Approach to Thrombocytosis - Elevated Platelet Count - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Peripheral Smear concerning for malignancy?
hematology for workup ... Nonmalignant hematologic: Acute ... blood loss, Acute ... infections, TB, Acute ... Severe trauma, Acute
Hypophosphatemia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Appropriately Low Kidney Phosphate Excretion:
 • Decreased GI Absorption: Chronic Diarrhea, Antacids,
GI Absorption: Chronic ... Refeeding Syndrome, Acute ... (MM, lymphoma, cancer ... Carboxymaltose, CAR-T cell ... nephrology #phosphorus #workup
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
Classification: • Acute ... Pleural effusions • Acute ... lymphopenia, low PLT • Anemia ... : • Chronic B-cell ... Hodgkin lymphoma and leukemia
Causes of Hyperkalemia
l. Pseudohyperkalemia
  A Cellular efflux; thrombocytosis, erythrocytosis, leukocytosis, in vitro hemolysis
  B.
diseases: syßtemic lupus ... anemia, obstructive ... uropathy, post-acute ... Acute oliguric kidney ... malignancy, metastatic cancer
Elevated Globulin - Protein Gap (Total Protein - Albumin > 4)

Work-up of an Elevated Globulin Gap:
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Albumin > 4) Work-up ... first step in evaluation ... Viral infections (acute ... anemia • Other ... inflammation (acute
Myelodysplastic syndromes current treatment algorithm 2018.

From Blood Cancer Journal, Published 24 May 2018

Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are
syndromes current treatment ... to acute myeloid ... leukemia (AML). ... disease tolerate anemia ... with repeated red cell