Analysis of myelodysplastic syndrome patients with deletion of long arm chromosome 5 followed up by the Czech MDS Working Group. Significance for the diagnostic and prognostic assessment

Abstract

There are new important discoveries in the pathogenesis and therapy of MDS patients with del(5q). To be well prepared for rational application of new findings for precise diagnosis and new therapy, clinical and laboratory data of our 68 MDS patients with del(5q) were analyzed.

Keywords

• myelodysplastic syndrome
• del(5q)
• clinical and laboratory picture
• prognostic assessment