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- Title
More cell death in refractory anemia with excess blasts in transformation than in acute myeloid leukemia.
- Authors
Huh, Y O; Jilani, I; Estey, E; Giles, F; Kantarjian, H; Freireich, E; Albitar, M
- Abstract
Refractory anemia with excess blasts in transformation (RAEB-T) is a subgroup of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) in which the bone marrow blast count ranges from 20% to 30%. The recently proposed World Health Organization Classification of Hematologic Malignancies eliminated this category from MDS by lowering the blast count cutoff for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) from 30% to 20%. However, MDS is distinguished from AML by a significant increase in apoptosis. To investigate the difference in apoptosis between RAEB-T, AML, and other categories of MDS, we prospectively analyzed fresh bone marrow samples using the Annexin V and mitochondrial potential assays. There was a significantly higher level of apoptosis in RAEB-T than in AML according to both assays, while no significant differences between RAEB-T and other categories of MDS were noted. The data suggest that RAEB-T is more likely to be an advanced stage of MDS and biologically different from AML.
- Publication
Leukemia, 2002, Vol 16, Issue 11, p2249
- ISSN
0887-6924
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/sj.leu.2402704