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. 2015 Jun 1;90(9):755–768. doi: 10.1002/ajh.24034

Table 6.

Incidence of Laboratory Abnormalities, any Causality

Event,a n (%) AP CML (n = 79) BP CML (n = 64) ALL (n = 24) Total (n = 167)
All grades Grade 3/4 All grades Grade 3/4 All grades Grade 3/4 All grades Grade 3/4
Hematologic laboratory abnormalitiesa
Anemia 78 (99) 28 (35) 60 (94) 25 (39) 22 (92) 7 (29) 160 (96) 60 (36)
Thrombocytopenia 64 (81) 39 (49) 50 (78) 42 (66) 20 (83) 18 (75) 134 (80) 99 (59)
Neutropenia 50 (63) 18 (23) 44 (69) 37 (58) 20 (83) 12 (50) 114 (68) 67 (40)
Leukopenia 39 (49) 11 (14) 42 (66) 28 (44) 16 (67) 9 (38) 97 (58) 48 (29)
Lymphopenia 38 (48) 12 (15) 39 (61) 18 (28) 12 (50) 11 (46) 89 (53) 41 (25)
Other laboratory abnormalities occurring in ≥30% of patients, any cohort
Hypocalcemia 32 (41) 4 (5) 35 (55) 3 (5) 9 (38) 1 (4) 76 (46) 8 (5)
Elevated alkaline phosphatase 30 (38) 1 (1) 25 (39) 1 (2) 15 (63) 0 70 (42) 2 (1)
Hyperglycemia 30 (38) 7 (9) 26 (41) 2 (3) 13 (54) 1 (4) 69 (41) 10 (6)
Elevated INR 31 (39) 2 (3) 30 (47) 0 10 (42) 1 (4) 71 (43) 3 (2)
Elevated ALT 36 (46) 7 (9) 20 (31) 1 (2) 11 (46) 0 67 (40) 8 (5)
Elevated AST 34 (43) 4 (5) 19 (30) 1 (2) 5 (21) 0 58 (35) 5 (3)
Elevated creatinine 25 (32) 0 22 (34) 1 (2) 9 (38) 0 56 (34) 1 (1)
Hypophosphatemia 30 (38) 6 (8) 17 (27) 4 (6) 9 (38) 3 (13) 56 (34) 13 (8)
Elevated PTT 26 (33) 2 (3) 21 (33) 2 (3) 5 (21) 0 52 (31) 4 (2)
Hypokalemia 18 (22) 3 (4) 22 (34) 4 (6) 12 (50) 0 52 (31) 7 (4)
Elevated prothrombin time 23 (29) 2 (3) 20 (31) 0 3 (13) 0 46 (28) 2 (1)
Hyponatremia 16 (20) 3 (4) 22 (34) 6 (9) 5 (21) 1 (4) 43 (26) 10 (6)
Hypoalbuminemia 18 (23) 0 24 (38) 2 (3) 5 (21) 1 (4) 47 (28) 3 (2)
a

Many patients had cytopenias when they started the study.

AP, accelerated phase; CML, chronic myeloid leukemia; BP, blast phase; ALL, acute lymphoblastic leukemia; ALT, alanine aminotransferase; INR, international normalized ratio; AST, aspartate aminotransferase; PTT, partial thromboplastin time.