Thursday, July 16, 2009

Wariness of fever in children with leukemia


In recent years the incidence of leukemia in children has increased. Although a high degree of malignant leukemia, the disease developed rapidly, and most acute; but very sensitive to chemotherapy, cancer cells easier to kill. In addition, China's treatment of leukemia using bone marrow transplantation has made great progress in the treatment of leukemia is generally promising.
Therefore, childhood leukemia, such as found in a timely manner, using appropriate treatment, are often able to obtain satisfactory results. According to clinical observations, childhood leukemia in the early performance of the following:
1, heat: This is the most common childhood leukemia symptoms. As a result of normal white blood cells, in particular agranulocytosis mature, the body's normal defense dysfunction, caused by infection can cause fever.
2, hemorrhage: some with more than half of children with varying degrees of bleeding. Is mainly expressed in nasal, oral, gingival bleeding skin, severe cases, internal organs, intracranial hemorrhage, it is often the cause the cause of death in children.
3, anemia: The most common symptoms of early-onset and progressive increase was. Children face, skin and mucous membrane pale, weak and poor appetite.
4, liver, spleen, lymph nodes; acute lymphoblastic leukemia, liver, spleen, lymph nodes is more significant, chronic myelogenous leukemia was more pronounced splenomegaly.
5, bone and joint pain and bone lesions: common in children with acute leukemia, and as the first symptom.
6, leukemia cells infiltrating the central nervous system can occur meningeal leukemia in children with headache, nausea, vomiting and even convulsions, coma.
7, blood tests to check the abnormal changes of data, the majority of children with leukocytosis tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of bone marrow leukocytes was significantly hyperplasia.
Mast cells in acute leukemia bone marrow
Once the diagnosis should be carried out after regular chemotherapy, during chemotherapy attention to nutrition, to strengthen support for therapy, prevention of infection and chemotherapy intermittent periodic follow-up visits to the hospital. Poor treatment of some patients should be re-bone marrow transplant, or autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation, the disease will enable continuous complete remission, the survival period.
What is leukemia?
Leukemia is a blood leukocytes of malignant lesions. Patients had the disease, their blood and bone marrow in various tissues and organs where there are a large number of abnormal forms of leukemia cells, the cells continued proliferation, the patient can be a series of symptoms, because different types of leukocytes, clinical performance are also different. According to the level of mature interleukin distinction can be divided into acute leukemia, chronic in two. Acute leukemia, patients are almost all of the leukemia cells are immature and childish to PMN as an example, mostly mice and tablets of leukemia, such as late promyelocyte cells.

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