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ArticleClinical medicine. Case reports2009

Methotrexate-induced acute leukemia: report of three cases and review of the literature.

Khalid A Al-Anazi, Khalid I Eltayeb, Mohammed Bakr, Fahad I Al-Mohareb

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Article in Clinical medicine. Case reports, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 31% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Rheumatoid arthritis in Saudi Arabia.Saudi medical journal · 2014
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  6. Osteosarcoma and second malignant neoplasms: a case series.Irish journal of medical science · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Khalid A Al-AnaziSection of Adult Hematology and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant, Oncology Centre, King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
Khalid I Eltayeb
Mohammed Bakr
Fahad I Al-Mohareb
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre · SA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For many years, methotrexate has been used in the treatment of certain chronic medical disorders e.g. rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis as well as a number of malignant disorders e.g. acute lymphoblastic leukemia, certain types of lymphoma and breast carcinoma. Its use has been associated with various systemic toxicities and complications. The association between methotrexate therapy and the development of lymphoma and pseudolymphoma is well established. In patients treated with methotrexate, the development of leukemia has been attributed to either the primary disorder e.g. rheumatoid arthritis or to other drugs used concomitantly e.g. cyclophosphamide. Reported here are two patients with rheumatoid arthritis and one patient with psoriasis treated with low dose methotrexate for variable periods of time. Two of these patients developed acute myeloid leukemia on myelodysplastic syndrome background, while the third patient developed pre-B acute lymphoblastic leukemia that expressed few myeloid markers and had a positive philadelphia chromosome. To our knowledge, these are the first reported cases of methotrexate-induced acute leukemia.

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acute lymphoblastic leukemiaacute myeloid leukemiamethotrexatemyelodysplastic syndromerheumatoid arthritis

Identifiers

PMID24179373
PMCPMC3785348
OpenAlexW1950872062

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