Acute Myeloid Leukemia | Clinical Presentation

What is acute leukemia? It is a condition in which the hematopoietic stem cells in the body become abnormal and accumulate in the bone marrow and blood serum. Acute leukemia can be split into two types: myeloid or lymphoblastic. This depends on the lineage of the hematopoietic stem cell. This video discusses the pathophysiology and major clinical signs and symptoms.

[AS-yziz]

My son was diagnosed with AML three years ago when he was 19. He had acute monocytic leukemia. Interestingly, while he had probably had it for a little while, it was diagnosed after he had his wisdom teeth removed, and it didn't seem to be healing and his gums were extremely swollen. That, along with his WBC count of 108, 000 led his oncologist to diagnose him even before he had any testing done. He also had it in his cerebral spinal fluid. He went through 5 rounds of intense chemotherapy. He has been in remission for 3 years, and is engaged to get married this summer.

[walkingdead]

I'm a medical student. I've never seen any lecture better than this. Thank you very much.

[stevie-leannemcindoe]

I got diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia aged 14, after 3 months of symptoms and been told by doctors it was a water infection, pulled muscles and puberty. Finally one doctor listened and ordered blood tests. 18 months later from remission aged 16 I relapsed and had a stem cell transplant. Now I'm 31 and although not in the best of health from side effects of the chemo and radiotherapy (had a bad reaction to it all) I'm thankfully still here.

[zpto]

Amazing...no one can explain such a highly complicated topic in such a simple way like its done here....Great work... Keep it up

[tonybigham]

(from Tina Bigham) My husband passed away at tbe age of 59 from AML after a 2-year battle. I never really understood it competely, but I understand it a little better now. Thanks for this help.

[ricoF]

for anyone that is watching this because kyedae got diagnosed with myleoid lukemia, Please Pray or Send Guidance to her because she needs us right now.

[kjartanfreyr]

I had AML when i was 12. I´m forever grateful to science, doctors and my friends and family for the fact i always had a positive surrounding and beat it after 8 months of intensive chemo. today i am 26 and so happy to be alive. if any person could say that he loves everyone and anything, it would be me. i just love everything, there's no other way to explain my feeling towards the world. The feeling of "i get to live and experience life after being so close to death" is unexplainable. however i did not always have this thought process after my treatment. I felt a lot of pain for a long time... Why me ? Why cant i do the same things as other kids? Why cant i have a normal childhood ? why cant i think the same way as other kids? why cant i focus on my dreams? why do i feel like little things don´t matter? why do i have no sense of direction? why am i feeling depressed? and loads of other thoughts that followed. I was never a victim but my thoughts for long time between the age of 16-24 were negative and for again, for a long time i felt like i was this victim that i told myself so often i wasn´t. If you are reading this and have a family member, friend or if you are going through this yourself, please speak out, to anyone! whether it be me, your dad, uncle, friend...Life after cancer can be hard, but we all need to make a choice to speak about it and seek the help that we may need.

[ladygray]

Thank you for terrific presentation. We lost our daughter in July with AML, it having progressed from MDS. She first had symptoms at age 15 and passed away at 42. No one explained this to us.

[rahullovesthepayne]

I lost my father due to Acute Monoblastic Leukaemia this week. It's been 5 days and i am trying to accept the fact that he isn't with me anymore. He was only diagnosed 4 months ago and he was completely okay whilst his treatment was going on until he caught a fever and then a lung infection which took him away from me.

As a person from the medicine and health sciences field and my sister is a doctor herself we closely monitored our dad daily and made sure he lived the best life he could in his last days. I wish he was here because I wanted to do SO much for him. I will always regret it.

[morganburdick]

2 years ago I was diagnosed with AML. Doctors called me dramatic and was saying since I was 18-19 years old that blood counts can fluctuate. It was until my hemoglobin dropped to 4.5 and a hospital stay that they finally saw it in my blood and sent me to Emory in Atlanta. I‘ve learned SOOO much about the disease and want to be able to help others like me through. After losing 4 friends from AML I’ve been pursuing a nursing degree for oncology and hopes to further this into a doctor of Hematology oncology. Thank you for your post and for helping me to further understand! To anyone watching this vid or reading this post that has been or is currently going through treatment for any type of leukemia, I’m praying for YOU!!💜

[thacompilations]

This is the best tutorial I've ever received on Acute leukemias. I've studied this 2x in class and no professor has simplified it like osmosis did in this video.

[elizabeth]

This past Father's Day my dad was diagnosed with leukemia, and it ended up being a mixed phenotype, so he had both lymphoid and myeloid leukemia combined. It took him in about two weeks. I'm going into medicine, and normally this sort of thing is super fascinating to learn about, especially something so rare as mixed phenotype acute leukemia. But it just hits different when the patient in question is your dad. I'm glad to see stories of survivors here, and I hope everyone who sees this video holds their loved ones close.

[Oceanrex]

Thank you so much for helping me learn about my cancer. Btw, I'm about five or six years into remission so don't worry. I had acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

[GERMANFORLIFEMEL]

My aunt just got this 5 hours ago today

Im praying everything’s okay:(

[mikuruki]

If you're here because you know what happen to Kyedae, Let's all pray for her

Prayers up, Get well soon Kyedae <3

[janicela]

AML in 2007 with a stem cell transplant. All is well thanks to God and all the amazing Dr's and nurses in Calgary.

[KK]

A classmate of mine passed away from AML just last week at age 23. Thank you for a great video.

[KQuinn]

im in remission from acute myeloii leukemia. three years now...still cautious though as its a five year mark an im only three years in...i wish you all who are suffering or in remission like myself for healing

[yejikim]

Thank you so much for this
-Clear visual presentation
-Smooth logical, concise flow
It was So helpful!
It’d help me, my colleagues and patients too!

[syedmotasimali]

My Brother is suffering from it. Currently undergoing chemotherapy. Lets all pray for his speedy recovery. InshaAllah