Two Cases of Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia Complicated by Torsade de Pointes during Arsenic Trioxide Therapy
- 1 May 2006
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Springer Nature in International Journal of Hematology
- Vol. 83 (4) , 318-323
- https://doi.org/10.1532/ijh97.05056
Abstract
We describe 2 patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) in whom torsade de pointes (TdP) developed during treatment with arsenic trioxide. Patient 1 was a 23-year-old woman with second-relapse...Keywords
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