Leukimia: Symptoms
Symptoms usually occur within a few weeks and the most common are:
- Anemia produces pallor, fatigue, shortness of breath and tachycardia. It can also be a loss of appetite and weight. Is produced by tumor invasion of the bone marrow.
- Sometimes bleeding are caused by the decrease in platelets. They are serious when the number of platelets less than 10,000 per ml, and will not occur if the decline is not very high (50,000 per ml). Cerebral hemorrhage can be a complication in these cases. Although it may appear in any type of leukemia is more common in one form of leukemia, LAM (M3).
It may not be reached to produce a large hemorrhage and that lack of platelets occurs only bruising, bleeding gums or nosebleeds mild.
- In acute lymphocytic leukemia or acute myelogenous the white blood cells are increased in number, most of them would be blasts, ie, a cell type that is normally found in bone marrow and not in peripheral blood, and that is immature. These immature cells do not function normally and do not meet the body’s defense functions.
- Infection: a risk of these patients. It manifests with fever. Occur due to the immunodeficiency, the white blood cells do not possess sufficient normal (leucopenia) and particularly granulocytes (neutropenia or granulocytopenia). Ie, not having sufficient numbers of mature white blood cells.
- In some cases, substances released by the blasts (white blood cells or immature), chemicals or enzymes, can cause metabolic disorders such as hypokalemia, hypocalcemia or hypercalcemia. These alterations must be corrected quickly as it can be very dangerous. Once control of the leukemic proliferation, completely reversed.
Clinical features in the propagation
When the leukemia cells spread to other organs can cause the following symptoms:
The symptoms of central nervous system leukemia include headache, weakness, vomiting, seizures, blurred vision and loss of balance.
When the liver or spleen are affected are often inflamed. This inflammation with the doctor detects a physical examination.
Lymph nodes usually swell and also concerned that the patient may notice when you are more superficial, such as the armpits, neck, etc.. Which are deeper, are displayed through a diagnostic test.
The thymus is usually affected in acute lymphocytic leukemia T cells When it occurs, it ignites and causes coughing and shortness of breath. When leukemic cells growing in this area may affect the superior vena cava and compressing. This will cause an inflammation of the head and arms. This syndrome can affect the brain and engage life.
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