Is Priapism a Common Presentation of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia in an Adolescent Patient?

Title:Is Priapism a Common Presentation of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia in an Adolescent Patient?

Volume: 21 Issue: 2

Author(s): Abhishek H.L. Purohit*, Sujata Sarangi, Deepak Kumar, Gopal K Bohra, Souvik Saha and Himanshu Pandey

Affiliation:

• All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS Medical College, Jodhpur,India

Keywords: Chronic myeloid leukemia, adolescent, priapism, neoplasm, fatigue, haemoglobin.

Abstract: Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is predominantly a disease of adults and the elderly. CML is uncommon in the paediatric age. Priapism as an initial presentation is quite uncommon in CML and is rare in the case of CML in paediatric and adolescent age. We present a case of CML in an adolescent male who presented with priapism of 48 hours duration. The patient was managed in an emergency by corporal aspiration and saline irrigation and was found to have CML during a hospital stay. The patient was treated with imatinib and is under follow-up for the last two years.

Cite this article as:

Purohit H.L. Abhishek*, Sarangi Sujata , Kumar Deepak , Bohra K Gopal , Saha Souvik and Pandey Himanshu , Is Priapism a Common Presentation of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia in an Adolescent Patient?, Cardiovascular & Hematological Disorders-Drug Targets 2021; 21(2) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1871529X21666210331142330