Radiologic Image of a Child with Leukemia Who Developed Sepsis and Fulminant Thrombosis during Induction Therapy

Abstract

A case study is presented of a five-year-old girl with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), occurred in the induction phase of chemotherapy. It informs that the patient developed tachypnea, bilateral rales and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). It mentions that sepsis is the most common cause of mortality and the overall risk of symptomatic thrombosis.