NUR 4227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cell Cycle, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Fiat 500L
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Idiopathic: aplastic anemia, leukemia, myelodysplastic, multiple myeloma, autoimmune disorders, sle, ra. Infections: sepsis, bone marrow infiltration of ca, tb, lymphoma, hypersplenism, transfusion reactions, hemodialysis syndrome, a symptom, not a disease, could be expected or unintentional . Infection sepsis death sepsis rapidly: assessment (what do they look like?, cultures and antibiotics, needed asap!, significant clinical signs. Iv best and within 1 hour: 3rd/4th generation of cephalosporins, administer hematopoietic growth factors filgrastim (neupogen), sargrasmostim (leukine, ****these are not given with cancers of, outpatient management preferred if possible. Infection: anemia classic sx, bleeding, fever, sternal tenderness, gingival hyperplasia, high wbc count, hepatospenomegally, aml is very aggressive, and survival after diagnosis is short without treatment. Acute lymphocytic leukemia (all: most common type of leukemia in children, 20% of acute leukemias in adults. Chronic myelogenous leukemia (cml: excessive mature neoplastic granulocytes in bone marrow, move into peripheral blood in massive numbers, ultimately infiltrate liver and spleen.
