Acute lymphocytic leukemia after fulminant varicella associated with severe neutropenia

South Med J. 2002 Sep;95(9):1074-5.

Abstract

Acute lymphocytic leukemia developed within 3 weeks after a fulminant case of varicella complicated by pneumococcal sepsis and severe bone marrow suppression in a child treated with filgrastim (human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor).

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Chickenpox / complications*
  • Chickenpox / drug therapy
  • Female
  • Filgrastim
  • Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Immunophenotyping
  • Infant
  • Neutropenia / complications*
  • Neutropenia / drug therapy
  • Neutropenia / virology
  • Pancytopenia / complications
  • Pancytopenia / drug therapy
  • Pancytopenia / virology
  • Pneumonia, Pneumococcal / complications
  • Pneumonia, Pneumococcal / drug therapy
  • Pneumonia, Pneumococcal / virology
  • Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / diagnosis
  • Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / virology*
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Sepsis / complications
  • Sepsis / drug therapy
  • Sepsis / virology

Substances

  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor
  • Filgrastim