| Presented by: | Internal Medicine / Motohiro Tsuzuki, Youko Inaguma, Kousuke Handa, Akio Hasegawa, Yukiya Yamamoto, Masato Watanabe, Syuichi Mizuta, Fumio Maruyama, Masataka Okamoto and Nobuhiko Emi |
| Summary points: | A 23-year-old woman was diagnosed with leukocytosis in December 1995. Initial examination, peripheral blood findings, liver and renal parameters, bone marrow examination, chromosomal analysis, and treatment are described. After 4.5 years of imatinib therapy, the patient became pregnant and treatment was immediately stopped. The authors describe a successful pregnancy and labour without any congenital anomaly in a patient with chronic myeloid leukaemia under treatment with imatinib. |
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Successful Pregnancy in a Patient with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia under Treatment with Imatinib
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