Volume 2000, Issue 1

Abstract

A patient with Philadelphia chromosome positive chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) being treated with INF-a conceived during treatment which continued for the whole course of her pregnancy. A female infant was born at 40th week of gestation and was found to have a platelet count of 56 x 109/L which returned to normal after two weeks.

A literature review of similar cases showed no abnormalities in the infants of mothers receiving INF-a during pregnancy. The safety of INF-a during pregnancy requires further study before its routine use during pregnancy can be recommended.

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Keyword(s): Alfa Interferon (INF-a)Chronic Myeloid LeukemiaPregnancy and Thrombocytopenia

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