Eithne01,
The treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) has changed significantly since the late 1990s, with the development and subsequent approval by the Food and Drug Administration of imatinib (in 2001), the first of a class of medications called tyrosine kinase inhibitors, which target the specific abnormality that causes CML.
Before that time, patients were treated with other therapy, including interferon and bone marrow transplant, and had very poor outcomes.
Are you currently on any medication like imatinib? The neutropenia can be due to your current medication. You can ask your hematologist for G-CSF injection if you have persistent neutropenia. Patients with CML are immunocompromised and can easily acquire infections. Neutropenia also puts a patient in an immunocompromised state.
For now, it is very important to prevent acquiring any infection. You should avoid crowded places and persons with ongoing infection.
Good luck.
Hi.
Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) is a blood disorder caused by an acquired genetic defect in the pleripotent stem cell. It has several phases: indolent chronic or stable phase, aggressive or advanced phase, and accelerated and blastic phase. The transition between phases may take years (on the average, 4 to 6 years from the stable phase to aggressive phase).
I need professional help in the bathing (shower) her while I am away. I would like someone who is expierenced in handeling a alzheimer 'personality', as she can become adament with people.
why would you use something indicated for alzheimer to quit smoking ? it doesn't make sense to me, sorry...
I know of no association between an ICD and the development of Alzheimer's disease. Likewise Alzehmer's disease would not affect the function of the AICD.
Hi. My mom has alzheimer, and has been on a feeding tube for around 3 months due to the fact that she slept a lot and we could not get her awake enough to feed her. The main issue we are having is she coughs up a white sticky mucus in her throat, and if my dad did not have a suctioning machine, would possibly have choked to death. Can you tell me what is possibly causing this mucus and how we may get rid of it before something bad happens.
Average survival rates are generalizations, not applicable to a particular patient. The prognosis is relatively good. Newer techniques are being tried, including imatinib and stem cell transplantation.
All the best, and God Bless!
s the dr said they found spots in my white matter and said it could be caused from multiple diseases such as ms, or alzheimer, people who have diabets and migraines. But said none of this is causing my headache, and couldnt find reason why was having them. I have been having migraines since i was in my teens and i am now in my 50's, Never this long. My obgyn says they are hormonal headache since i was getting them once a month then they stopped but now they are back.
hey, wish i could help you with this but as i am not a Dr i have no ideal what that is. i will go look it up on net, you should try that and see if you get the info you need.
I've been reading several sites on the web and read that if you have the flu shot a minimum of three years consecutively, you are at a higher risk of Alzheimer. How true is this? I'm 61yrs old. Thank you.
My mother, age 84, has undergone treatment for a brain lymphoma over the last 15 months. Her last radiation treatment was in October of 2018. She is having episodes of dementia/Alzheimer like symptoms currently. This has happened before but then went away. Also, her MRI's (she has had one every 4-5 weeks for the last 5 months) show areas of "enhancement" that are there with one MRI but gone with the next.
Sorry you got no answer before , I suggest to pop this question onto the Expert/Doctor alzheimers forum ..go back to the forums page and click on the right ..
I posted a question in my community (BP) about BP getting worse with age. My delima is that my family has a history of both dementia and Alzheimer Disease on each side of my family. With bipolar, I have been told, that left untreated, it can lead to dementia in patients. Of course, now, I am being treated, and that's a very good thing.
Do you know if Dementia and Alzheimer's is inherited? Does anyone know of someone that had bipolar and it went into dementia?
Your Grandmother has Alzheimer and depression: 1) Alzheimer is memory loss due to not giving the brain enough water so she needs to drink 4 glasses of water per day 2) this goes the same as Depression and do not smoke or drink alcohol or coffee because it goes to the brain and gives the brain the wrong chemical and liquid.
MY 81 YR OLD FATHER WITH ALZHEIMER HAD A PEG ( FEEDING TUBE) FOR 4 MONTHS NOW, BECAUSE HE COULD NOT INGEST ANY FOOD ORALLY. ABOUT ONE MONTH HE SUDDENDLY RECOVER HIS ABILITY TO EAT THROUGH HIS MOUTH, BUT A FEW DAYS AGO THE FEEDING TUBE WAS SUCKED INTO THE STOMACH SPONTANEOUSLY, WHAT COULD HAVE CAUSED THIS ? WHAT ARE THE DANGERS.
At Wall green you can get Drug tests If That is"nt the problem Check for Alzheimer"s Disease. OR bump in the head!
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