The Association of Viral Infection and Acute Leukemia in Childhood: Two Case Reports

• Main Authors: Murat Söker, Alpay Çakmak
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dicle University Medical School 2005-01-01
• Series: Dicle Medical Journal
• Subjects: Leukemia; Viral İnfection
• Online Access: http://4181.indexcopernicus.com/fulltxt.php?ICID=888057

Hepatitis A and Measles are the most common viral infection in pediatric patients. Viral infections causes to serious problem in immunocompromised patients such as acute leukemias. It is known that some viral infection agent causes hematologic malignancies. We report here two patient with acute leukemias who admitted to our clinic with similar to viral infection. The first case is a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) presented with ascites and pleural effusion. In this patient, the major clinical problem is hepatitis A. The second case is a patient with ALL who admitted with symptoms of measles. We discussed here, some viral infections may cause to leukemia and those may be associated with leukemias.