What is the association between leukemia and thrombocytopenia?
Thrombocytopenia is a common bleeding disorder, caused by a decrease in the number of platelets (thrombocytopenia) or reduced function (platelet insufficiency) leading to poor thrombostasis and bleeding.
Leukemia is a malignant disease of the hematopoietic system, which is characterized by the malignant proliferation of a certain type of leukemia cells in the bone marrow or other hematopoietic tissues in the hematopoietic tissues and infiltration of organs and tissues in the body, leading to the inhibition of normal hematopoietic cells, resulting in a variety of symptoms, the clinical manifestations are characterized by fever, hemorrhage, anemia, enlargement of the liver, spleen and lymph nodes.
People with leukemia can be accompanied by symptoms of thrombocytopenia
Thrombocytopenia is caused by immune factors, while leukemia is caused by malignant cells in the bone marrow. The two groups are completely different diseases, and thrombocytopenia does not progress to leukemia.
In summary, thrombocytopenia does not cause leukemia, which you can rest assured, but it does not cause leukemia does not mean that patients can relax treatment.
Thrombocytopenia also has a very serious harm to patients, and even some patients will be too low because of platelets and serious bleeding phenomenon, directly endangering the patient's life, therefore, I also hope to help you understand clearly as soon as possible thrombocytopenia, and actively treat it, to avoid the occurrence of more serious bleeding phenomenon.