Wednesday 26 October 2016

Life-threatening Capillary Leak Syndrome in an Adult with Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia during Allogeneic Transplantation

CLS is one of the life-threatening early complications which usually occur during hematopoietic stem cell infusion or hematopoietic reconstruction process in addition to graft-versus-host-disease (GVHD) and infection.

Acute Myeloid Leukemia
It is characterized by unexplained episodic capillary hyperpermeability, which causes the shift of fluid and protein from the intravascular space to the interstitial space. However, since the nonspecific signs and symptoms of CLS and the overlapping manifestations of early complications after transplantation, CLS tends to be easily confused with other early complications for clinicians.

In this case, we report an adult with refractory acute myeloid leukemia who developed fatal CLS during allo-HSCT with review of the literature.

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