2021
DOI: 10.1016/j.htct.2020.01.008
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Pregnancy in a 31-year-old woman with chronic lymphocytic leukemia: a case report and review of the literature

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“…Reviewing the literature on the topic, it is mainly based on anecdotal case reports [3,[5][6][7][8][9]. Few of them also report details on therapy given during pregnancy such as leukapheresis [6] and chemotherapy [5].…”
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“…Reviewing the literature on the topic, it is mainly based on anecdotal case reports [3,[5][6][7][8][9]. Few of them also report details on therapy given during pregnancy such as leukapheresis [6] and chemotherapy [5].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…CLL is the most frequent leukemia in the Western world, yet it is a disease of the elderly with a median age at diagnosis of 72 years old and is more frequent in males [ 1 , 2 ]. Only 2% are women below 40 years old [ 3 , 4 ], and this explains the rarity of pregnancy cases.…”
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“…The most common reason of induced abortion among pregnancy induced malignancies is hematologic disease (21%) [3]. Although it is the most common adult leukemia, B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) has been reported in pregnancy in less than 10 cases [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. The median age of CLL is 70 years and approximately 2% of patients are aged <45 years [14,15].…”
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confidence: 99%