Acute lymphoblastic leukemia with hyperleukocytosis, sinus pauses, and hypoxemic respiratory failure in an infant.

Pediatr Emerg Care

Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of New Jersey, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ 07112, USA.

Published: March 2011

A 5-month-old female infant presented with new-onset acute lymphoblastic leukemia and hyperleukocytosis with white blood cell count of 352 × 10(9) cells/L. She developed sinus pauses and hypoxemic respiratory failure. A manual single volume exchange blood transfusion was done with complete resolution of sinus pauses and hypoxemia.

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