AML Flashcards
▪ otherwise known as Acute Non-Lymphocytic Leukemia (ANLL)
ACUTE MYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (AML)
▪ progressive, malignant disease affecting stem (precursor) cells
ACUTE MYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (AML)
▪ a stem cell disorder with predominance of blast cells (> 20%) in the blood or marrow
ACUTE MYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (AML)
• blast cells: immature due to
1) genetic mutation or 2) induced by radiation, virus, chemical exposure
partially differentiated or undifferentiated cells
• blast cells
▪ may resemble [?] at presentation due to ↑WBC counts (w/ fever and weakness) → [?] → [?]
acute infection
pancytopenia
death
(leads to abnormal bleeding; lack of resistance to infection; abnormal proliferates = normal decreases)
pancytopenia
▪ affects all ages, but increases with older age (> 60 years = disease of adulthood); newborns (pre-mature leukemic development)
ACUTE MYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (AML)
▪ also the most common form of acute leukemia during the first few months of life
ACUTE MYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (AML)
tested for the identification of AML stage or classification using stains and CD markers
• Myeloperoxidase (MPO)
• CD13
• CD33
• CD117
• CD14
• CD64
• first stage; large
primitive myeloblasts
• usually stained with MPO
primitive myeloblasts
• detected with CD13, CD33, and CD117 (more specific than staining/no staining capability; identification via CD markers/immunology)
primitive myeloblasts
• usually stained with MPO, Sudan Black B (SBB), Chloroacetate Esterase (CAE)
more mature blasts (2-3 stages)
AML ETIOLOGY
- RADIATION
- GENETICS
- CHEMICALS
▪ linked to an increase incidence of leukemia (aggravates leukemic conditions)
- RADIATION
Chromosomal defects
• aneuploidy
• breakage and rearrangement
- unstable chromosomes bound to be modified or rearranged
• breakage and rearrangement
- (e.g., Fanconi Syndrome, Bloom Syndrome, Ph1 chromosome)
• breakage and rearrangement
- extra or missing chromosome
• aneuploidy
- (e.g., Trisomy 21 or Down Syndrome)
• aneuploidy
- CHEMICALS
a. Leukomogen
b. Benzene
suppress the bone marrow and eventually causes aplasia
Leukomogen
(inhibition of production of blood cells in the bm = [?]; disease in which the red bone marrow disappears and consequently ceases to produce red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets)
balstic aplasia
Leukomogen proposed (still controversial; not evidential but linked to leukemia):
- chloramphenicol
- phenylbutazone
- arsenic-containing compounds
- sulfonamides
- insecticides
: only proven chemical known to cause cancer
Benzene
▪ not conclusive/proven to humans but linked like the chemical etiology
- VIRUSES
: • most common class of tumor associated with animal leukemia and lymphoma
▪ Type C RNA viruses
: • carry genes responsible for the induction of cancer
▪ Retroviruses (e.g., HIV)
• activates our proto-oncogene to oncogene which causes or induces cancer cells
▪ Retroviruses (e.g., HIV)
AML with minimal differentiation/ Undifferentiated leukemia
M0
(similar to Undifferentiated MDS; general features: myelocytic and monocytic origin)
M0
AML without maturation
M1
▪ myelocytic origin
M1
M2
M3
▪ > 30% myeloblast in BM
M1
▪ + Auer rods (fused primary granules; spindle-shaped, redpurple)
M1
M2
AML with maturation
M2
Myeloblast + Mature cells
M2
▪ myelocytic origin
M2
▪ > 30% myeloblast with > 10% granulocytic component
M2
▪ + Auer rods
M1
M2
→ t(8q;21)
M2
Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia /Hypergranular Promyelocytic Leukemia
M3
→ t(15;17)
M3
Lesser blast (2nd stage)
M3
▪ myelocytic origin
M3
▪ with heavy granulation
M3
▪ many Auer rods in bundles called “faggot cells”
M3
▪ nuclear shape: bilobed or reniform (kidney-shaped)
M3
▪ associated with DIC
M3
M3 Coagulation tests/blood findings:
• prolonged PT, APTT, TCT
• ↓fibrinogen, platelet, AT-III
• ↑FSP, fibrin monomers
• (+) D-dimer
Acute Myelomonocytic Leukemia
M4
→ inv(16) subclass M4e
M4
▪ > 20% of PB WBCs are monocytes or monocytic precursors (promonocytes)
M4
▪ > 30% blasts
M4
▪ > 20% granulocytes
M4
▪ associated with CNS involvement or tissue infiltration (capable of infiltrating tissue barriers on the brain)
M4
▪ increased lysozyme
M4
Acute Monocytic Leukemia
M5
Schilling’s Leukemia
M5
→ t(9;11)
M5
▪ > 80% of BM elements are of monocytic series
M5
▪ increased lysozyme
M5
▪ associated with CNS involvement
M5
• poorly differentiated monocytic leukemia (nonspecific cell location; due to the presence of promonocyte and mature monocyte in both PB and BM)
M5a