NURS 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, Infectious Mononucleosis, Precursor Cell
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Place a g by molecules that are considered granulocytes. Place an a by molecules that are considered agranulocytes. Infecious mononucleosis: what is it, how is it transmited, why does it mater? d. Blast crisis: evoluion to acute leukemia, high blast cell counts, poor prognosis. Cll symptoms speciically hypogamaglobulinemia is common, which leads to increased suscepibility to infecions. Cml symptoms speciically consituional symptoms during the accelerated stage, like faigue, weight loss, and night sweats. Cancer of the lymphaic system, originates in the lymph node. Malignancy involves both b and t cells. Indolent: non-problemaic, paient can live for years: difuse large b-cell. Aggressive but highly responsive and curable: burkit lymphoma. Diagnosed due to the presence of reed-sternberg cells (large, atypical, mononuclear) Endemic in africa due to ebv and malarial infecions. Increased amounts of m proteins, like igg or iga (a malignant clone of the anibody it was supposed to make. Increased amounts of bence jones proteins: the light chain fragments of anibodies.
