Publications by authors named "Walid Bouteraa"

Article Synopsis
  • Skin lesions occur in 4% to 20% of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and are less common than in T-cell leukemia.
  • These lesions often present as leukemic cutis or secondary conditions like urticaria, itching, and cutaneous vasculitis.
  • The case discussed involves a patient whose skin lesions led to the late diagnosis of isolated cutaneous CLL, highlighting the need for improved awareness and prompt diagnosis to enhance treatment outcomes.
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Introduction: An important but rare adverse effect of vaccines is their association with autoimmune events, including hepatitis and aplastic anemia (AA). In this paper, we report a case of hepatitis followed by AA that occurred after the COVID-19 vaccine was administered.

Case Report: This paper focuses on a 30-year-old female who presented with acute hepatitis three weeks after receiving the second dose of the coronavirus Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.

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Primary non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the adrenal gland is rare. We report the case of a 56-year-old patient suffering from B symptoms. The CT scan showed a bilateral adrenal mass without any lymph nodes.

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Reports on childhood APL from developing countries are scarce. We treated 65 APL with two consecutive trials combining ATRA and chemotherapy. Twenty (30.

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Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) has now become the most curable of all subtypes of acute myeloid leukemia. A cure rate of 75-80% can be anticipated with a combination of all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) and anthracyclines. In Tunisia, the ATRA era began in 1998 with the use, consecutively, of two regimens of a combination of ATRA with anthracycline and cytarabine (APL93), and without cytarabine (LPA99).

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Severe sepsis defined as infection-induced organ dysfunction or hypoperfusion abnormalities predispose to septic shock and increased mortality in neutropenic setting. We aimed at determining predictors of severe sepsis in neutropenic patients. Between 1 October and 31 December 2007, 41 patients (21 with acute myeloid leukemia, 19 with acute lymphoid leukemia and one with autologous stem cell transplantation for a mantle cell lymphoma) with chemotherapy-induced neutropenia (<0.

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