Year: 2025 | Month: July | Volume: 15 | Issue: 7 | Pages: 127-134
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20250715
Concurrent Presentation of Acute Myeloid Leukemia with COVID 19: A Diagnostic Challenge
Menia R1, Agarwal C2, Chatterjee T3, Pujani M4, Sharma N5, Chauhan V6, Singh A7
Department of Pathology, ESIC Medical College & Hospital, Faridabad, Haryana, India
Corresponding Author: Dr Varsha Chauhan
ABSTRACT
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought forth with it many challenges for the management and treatment of patients with hematological malignancies. Amongst the hematological malignancies in young to middle-aged adults Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) is one of the commonest malignancies, however occurring de-novo with COVID-19RTPCR confirmed cases, is a rare presentation to the best of our knowledge. This concomitant appearance of AML with COVID-19without any previous history is rare. We are presenting four cases of COVID-19with coexistent AML. The diagnosis was established with the correlation of flow cytometry, bone marrow examination, and radiology. Though it is known that patients with concomitant infection of leukemia and COVID-19 develop severe disease and complications, the treatment strategies should be formulated at the early onset of the infection to minimize the mortality and morbidity associated with both these conditions.
Key words: COVID-19, AML, young adults, mortality.