A 25-year-old male presented with fever, fatigue and recurrent infections. Labs show: WBC 60,000(high), hb 8 (low), platelets 40,000(low), peripheral blood smear show more than 20% blast cells. What is the best next step?
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الإجابة: A. Bone marrow biopsy
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Step Up To Medicine 6th, 2024 (high blood count).pdf · p. 4
Leukocytosis with anaemia, thrombocytopenia and >20% blasts on the smear strongly suggests acute leukaemia. A bone marrow biopsy is required for diagnosis: it confirms blast proliferation (>20%) and defines the lineage (ALL vs AML).
- Iron is irrelevant here.
- Transfusion and antibiotics are supportive measures and do not establish the diagnosis. The sources do say fever in a known acute leukaemia should be treated as infection, so this answer depends on reading the stem as a diagnostic "next step".
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- Step Up To Medicine 6th, 2024 (high blood count).pdf · p. 4
Hematology🩸.pdf · p. 45 - المحاضرة
- High Blood Counts · Hematology · Module C
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