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Pellegrino C, Dragonetti G, Chiusolo P, Rossi M, Orlando N, Teofili L. Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia in a Woman with Thalassemia Intermedia: Case Report and Review of Literature on Hematological Malignancies in β-Thalassemia Patients. Hematol Rep 2022; 14:310-321. [PMID: 36278522 PMCID: PMC9590045 DOI: 10.3390/hematolrep14040045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2022] [Revised: 10/01/2022] [Accepted: 10/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
Abstract
Patients affected by transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia are prone to developing several clinical complications, mostly related to the iron overload. We report the case of a patient affected by transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia (TDT) developing acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). In our case, the therapeutic management was significantly complicated not only by myocardial dysfunction, but also by the occurrence of the differentiation syndrome following all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) administration. We carried out a careful revision of the current literature on the occurrence of hematological malignancies in β-thalassemia patients to investigate the major complications so far described. APL occurrence in β-thalassemia patients has been very rarely reported, and our experience suggests that TDT patients suffering pre-existing comorbidities may develop a potentially fatal complication during ATRA therapy.
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Affiliation(s)
- Claudio Pellegrino
- Dipartimento di Diagnostica per Immagini, Radioterapia Oncologica ed Ematologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario “A. Gemelli” IRCCS, I-00168 Roma, Italy
- Sezione di Ematologia, Dipartimento di Scienze Radiologiche ed Ematologiche, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, I-00168 Rome, Italy
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +06-30156016
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- Dipartimento di Diagnostica per Immagini, Radioterapia Oncologica ed Ematologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario “A. Gemelli” IRCCS, I-00168 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Diagnostica per Immagini, Radioterapia Oncologica ed Ematologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario “A. Gemelli” IRCCS, I-00168 Roma, Italy
- Sezione di Ematologia, Dipartimento di Scienze Radiologiche ed Ematologiche, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, I-00168 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Diagnostica per Immagini, Radioterapia Oncologica ed Ematologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario “A. Gemelli” IRCCS, I-00168 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Diagnostica per Immagini, Radioterapia Oncologica ed Ematologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario “A. Gemelli” IRCCS, I-00168 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Diagnostica per Immagini, Radioterapia Oncologica ed Ematologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario “A. Gemelli” IRCCS, I-00168 Roma, Italy
- Sezione di Ematologia, Dipartimento di Scienze Radiologiche ed Ematologiche, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, I-00168 Rome, Italy
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Marchionni E, Agolini E, Mastromoro G, Guadagnolo D, Coppola G, Roggini M, Riminucci M, Novelli A, Giancotti A, Corsi A, Pizzuti A. Fetal early motor neuron disruption and prenatal molecular diagnosis in a severe BICD2-opathy. Am J Med Genet A 2021; 185:1509-1514. [PMID: 33547725 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.62111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2020] [Revised: 01/09/2021] [Accepted: 01/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
Abstract
BICD2 (BICD Cargo Adaptor 2, MIM*609797) mutations are associated with severe prenatal-onset forms of spinal muscular atrophy, lower extremity-predominant 2B (SMALED2B MIM 618291) or milder forms with childhood-onset (SMALED2A MIM 615290). Etiopathogenesis is not fully clarified and a wide spectrum of phenotypic presentations is reported, ranging from extreme prenatal forms with adverse outcome, to slow progressive late-onset forms. We report a fetus at 22 gestational weeks with evidence of Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita on ultrasound, presenting with fixed extended lower limbs and flexed upper limbs, bilateral clubfoot and absent fetal movements. A trio-based prenatal Exome Sequencing was performed, disclosing a de novo heterozygous pathogenic in frame deletion (NM_015250.3: c.1636_1638delAAT; p.Asn546del) in BICD2. After pregnancy termination, quantitative analysis on NeuN immunostained spinal cord sections of the ventral horns, revealed that neuronal density was markedly reduced compared to the one of an age-matched normal fetus and an age-matched type-I Spinal Muscular Atrophy sample, used as a comparative model. The present case, the first prenatally diagnosed and neuropathologically characterized, showed an early motor neuron loss in SMALED2B, providing further insight into the pathological basis of BICD2-opathies.
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- Enrica Marchionni
- Department of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Neuropsychiatry, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Maternal and Child Health and Urologic Science, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.,Clinical Genomics Unit, IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy
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