Lymphatic leukemia - symptoms, diagnosis, treatment.

Lymphocytic leukemia is a malignant disease of the blood, which is characterized by the accumulation of pathological lymphocytes. A synonym for this disease is lymphocytic leukemia.

Lymphatic leukemia - symptoms

In the initial stages of the disease, when the patient is only found lymphatic leukemia, the symptoms are quite common. At the first manifestations of this disease, patients feel weak in the body and malaise, while the appetite of patients decreases sharply, and the body temperature rises sharply, with no seemingly objective reasons. In addition, a disease such as lymphatic leukemia, the symptoms of pale skin, accompany, due to the development of anemia, as well as general intoxication of the body.

Leukemia is often accompanied by pain in the spinal column and limbs. Also in almost all cases, the patients are enlarged with lymph nodes. Because of the location of the lesions of this disease in the central nervous system, neuroleukemia can also develop in patients. In order to avoid this, it is necessary to make a CT scan or an MRI scan of the brain in a timely manner.

Symptoms of chronic lymphocytic leukemia are considered to be general weakness, heaviness in the abdomen, especially near the left hypochondrium, and also excessive sweating. The severity in the abdomen is explained quite simply - it is associated with an enlarged spleen, a cemetery of blood cells. Lymph nodes start to increase much more rapidly than during the acute form of the disease.

Stages of chronic lymphocytic leukemia

1. The defeat is not more than 2 groups or large lymph nodes, or complete absence of this lesion. There is no thrombocytopenia and anemia in the patient.
2. The defeat of large groups and clusters of lymph nodes. Thrombocytopenia and anemia in the patient is still absent.
3. The presence of thrombocytopenia and anemia.

Lymphatic leukemia - diagnosis

All diagnosis begins with an analysis of peripheral blood, after which, in 98% of cases, there is a presence of blasts, as well as mature cells, and without an intermediate stage. If the disease is in the acute phase, then the results of the tests will show thrombocytopenia and normochromic anemia.

The exact diagnosis can be made only after the study of red bone marrow, paying attention to the histological, cytogenetic and cytochemical component of blasts.

Lymphatic leukemia - treatment

If the patient has acute lymphocytic leukemia, the symptoms of the disease are not the most frightening, then the disease can be completely cured. When using chemotherapy for the treatment of acute forms, it is important to select broad-spectrum drugs. It is also necessary to clearly choose the dosage of the drug, while accuracy is very important, because if the dose of the drug is less than necessary, the disease can easily recur and even go to a chronic stage, and if the dose is too large, then undesirable complications of the disease will appear.

Treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, unlike acute lymphocytic leukemia, is not performed in the early stages of the disease, this is due to the fact that, in the opinion of doctors, the disease at the initial stage has a "smoldering" course. In this regard, people with chronic lymphocytic leukemia live long enough without first using any means. Treatment begins only after the appearance of the first symptoms.

It should be started if the amount of lymphocytes in the blood of a patient increases rapidly, a number of lymph nodes grow throughout the body, and the spleen increases noticeably in size.

Treatment of this disease is carried out by courses of chemotherapy, the power of which and effectiveness, depend on the course of the disease. In some cases, it is possible to remove the spleen.

It is necessary to carefully monitor your health and regularly visit a doctor.