A PEDIATRIC CHRONIC EOSINOPHILIC LEUKEMIA CASE SUCCESFULLY TREATED WITH STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION AFTER TRANSFORMATION TO ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA

Cakmaklı, Hasan Fatih; Tuncer, Hatice Erkol; Sahınoglu, Esra Pekpak; Ince, Elif Unal; Ilerı, Talia; Ertem, Mehmet

doi:10.1016/j.htct.2023.09.078

Hematology, Transfusion and Cell Therapy

ISSN: 2531-1379

Hematology, Transfusion and Cell Therapy is a quarterly scientific publication of the Associação Brasileira de Hematologia, Hemoterapia e Terapia Celular (ABHH), Associazione Italo-Brasiliana di Ematologia (AIBE), Eurasian Hematology Oncology Group (EHOG), and Sociedade Brasileira de Oncologia Pediátrica (SOBOPE).

Hematology, Transfusion and Cell Therapy publishes original articles, review articles and case reports covering various areas in the field of hematology and hemotherapy. The journal was previously published, until 2016, as Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia.

ISSN print: 2531-1379
ISSN online: 2531-1387

Published by Elsevier Editora Ltda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Consensus of the Brazilian association of hematology, hemotherapy and cellular therapy on patient blood management.

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Web of Science, LILACS, SciELO Brazil, ESCI (Web of Science), Scopus, and PubMed/PMC

Chronic eosinophilic leukemia (CEL) is an extremely severe and rare disease in childhood with a very poor prognosis, frequently transforms to acute leukemia in a few years, and once transformed median survival time is only 2 months. Here we present a 9-year-old boy with CEL, transformed to acute lymphoblastic leukemia 17 months after diagnosis and successfully treated with chemotherapy and unrelated stem cell transplantation, he is still in remission after 7 years without any chronic morbidities.

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