Acute leukaemias in adults

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• Suspect acute leukaemia in patients with anaemia, neutropenia, thrombocytopenia and associated systemic symptoms such as infections and bleeding, particularly mucosal bleeding.
• Advanced acute leukaemia is characterized by poor general condition of the patient, leucocytosis and immature blast cells in the blood.
• The establishment of precise diagnosis and the initiation of urgent treatment take place in a specialized hospital. Post-treatment follow-up is carried out in the hospital outpatient clinic and later in the primary health care.

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