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Venetoclax and Low-Dose Cytarabine Induced Complete Remission in a Patient with High-Risk Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Case Report

DOI

10.1007/s11684-018-0635-y

Journal Title

Frontiers of Medicine

First Page

593

Last Page

599

Document Type

Case Report

Publication Date

October 2018

Department

Medicine

Abstract

Conventional combination therapies have not resulted in considerable progress in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Elderly patients with AML and poor risk factors have grave prognosis. Midostaurin has been recently approved for the treatment of FLT-3-mutated AML. Venetoclax, a BCL-2 inhibitor, has been approved for the treatment of relapsed and/or refractory chronic lymphoid leukemia. Clinical trials on applying venetoclax in combination with cytarabine and other agents to treat various hematological malignancies are currently underway. Here, we present a case of a male patient with poor performance status and who developed AML following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant for high-risk myelodysplasia. The patient with high risk AML achieved complete response to the combined treatment regimen of low-dose cytarabine and venetoclax. Furthermore, we reviewed current clinical trials on the use of venetoclax for hematological malignancies.

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