Status of multiple myeloma at Blood Transfusion and Hematology Center of Ho Chi Minh City from 1990 to 2002
- Author:
Huynh Thi My Hoa
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
multiple myeloma
- MeSH:
Multiple Myeloma;
Blood;
Blood Transfusion
- From:Journal of Vietnamese Medicine
2003;280(1):24-31
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
At the Ho Chi Minh city Centre of Hematology and Blood Transfusion from 1990 to the year 2002, 102 patients (50 males and 52 females) with polymyelititis were studied. Results showed that multiple myelititis account for low rate of malignant blood diseases (0.7% of blood diseases and 2% blood malignant diseases). It is a disease of the elderly with highest prevalence in the ages of 50-59 regardless the gender. The commonest clinical symtoms are those related to skeletum and the most vulnerable site is the region of spinal column. The most of patients were suffered from anemia (96.7%), in 71% of patients there was plasmocyte in bone marrow (>30%) and in 47% of patients, creatinine rate accounts for 1.5 mg/dl. The VMCP procedure was used primarily. Patients treated in a durationlonger than 6 months had had a mean survival of 40.64 months
