Good news for CLLers with AIHA

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Spanish study in Blood journal

Study of 960 CLL patients found:

" the outcome of patients with autoimmune cytopenia as a whole was not

significantly different from that of patients without this complication. "

" Importantly, patients with advanced (Binet C stage) disease due to an

autoimmune mechanism had a significantly better survival than those in advanced

stage related to a massive bone marrow infiltration (median survivals: 7.4 years

vs. 3.7 years; p=0.02).

These results emphasize the importance of determining the origin of cytopenia in

patients with CLL for both treatment and prognostic purposes. "

Source: Blood, DOI 10.1182/blood-2010-05-286500

~chris