de Fijter C W, Schuur J, Potter van Loon B J, Kingma W P, Schweitzer M J
Department of Internal Medicine, St. Lucas Hospital, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Neth J Med. 1996 Jul;49(1):33-7. doi: 10.1016/0300-2977(96)00008-3.
A patient with acute cardiorespiratory failure caused by hyperleukocytosis due to chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) is described. Although acute pulmonary failure due to leukostasis is a known and often postmortem finding in patients with acute myelocytic leukaemia (AML) or chronic myelocytic leukaemia (CML) in blastic crises, it is rare in CLL.
