Clinical Case Reports (Oct 2020)

Noninvasive prenatal testing detected acute myeloid leukemia in paucisymptomatic pregnant patient

  • Laura Yissel Rengifo,
  • Lucienne Michaux,
  • Johan Maertens,
  • Thomas Tousseyn,
  • Liesbeth Lenaerts,
  • Joris Robert Vermeesch,
  • Peter Vandenberghe,
  • Barbara Dewaele

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3027
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 10
pp. 1924 – 1927

Abstract

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Abstract To the authors' best knowledge, this is the first report of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) detected by noninvasive prenatal testing. This was an aggressive case that otherwise would have been difficult to characterize due to disadvantages of "gold‐standard" techniques.

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