Abstract
The symptoms of MDS — both de novo and secondary — are nonspecific and largely dependent on the type and severity of the underlying cytopenia. In the early stages of disease, patients are often asymptomatic and a diagnosis of MDS is discovered incidentally during a routine blood analysis. In the later stages of disease, patients may present with symptoms of anemia, neutropenia or thrombocytopenia, or some combination. In fact, at least one-half of patients have pancytopenia at the time of diagnosis [6]. The severity of symptoms and disease manifestations, which range from mild to life-threatening, adversely affect the patient’s quality of life (QoL) [4,24,25].
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- Optic Neuritis
- Retinal Hemorrhage
- Refractory Anemia
- Granulocytic Sarcoma
- Refractory Anemia With Ringed Sideroblasts
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List, A. (2008). Signs and symptoms of myelodysplastic syndromes. In: Clinician’s Manual on Myelodysplastic Syndromes . Springer Healthcare, Tarporley. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-907673-36-8_3
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