Hypofibrinogenemia as a clue in the presumptive diagnosis of acute promyelocytic leukemia
Lou Yinjun
Suo Shanshan
Tong Hongyan
Qian Wenbin
Mai Wenyuan
Meng Haitao
Yu Wenjuan
Wei Juyin
Jin Jie
· 2016
期刊名称:
Leukemia Research
2016 年
50 卷
摘要:
Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is a medical emergency. In order to evaluate the usefulness of initial coagulation parameters in the predictive value of APL diagnosis, 1304 consecutive newly diagnosed acute leukemia patients, including APL (n??=??211), non-APL acute myeloid leukemia (n??=??781) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (n??=??312) were retrospectively evaluated between January 2011 and May 2015. The area under curve (AUC) of fibrinogen was the largest among the coagulation markers based on receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis. The optimum cutoff value of fibrinogen was 1.87??g/L (AUC??=??0.912, sensitivity 80.1% and specificity 88.8%). The optimum cutoff value of D-dimer was 2191????g/L (AUC??=??0.786, sensitivity 81.1% and specificity 67.8%). The AUC difference between the fibrinogen and D-dimer was significant (P???0.001). Other coagulation markers showed less predictive power. Importantly, in the analysis of high white blood cell count (over 10???—??10