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What are the signs, symptoms, and lab abnormalities of myelodysplastic syndromes?

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• August 21, 2024

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Learn about the signs, symptoms, and lab abnormalities of MDS in this video.

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What are the signs, symptoms, and lab abnormalities of MDS? Most of the times they may have fatigue if they have low red cells, and if they have low white cell count, they may have infection. That's how it might be diagnosed. So it presents with low blood counts. And when they present, you know, like they may have a fever or fatigue most of the times, and the lab abnormalities, as I said, low blood counts, low red cell count, low white cell count, or low platelet count. And then they may have some, when they have a bone marrow biopsy, they may have, you know, like dysplasia or abnormal cells in the bone marrow, and then some chromosomal abnormalities like 5Q-, or, you know, a deletion of 5Q, 5 chromosome, that is, you know, common, of the common abnormalities in MDS. So either some chromosomal abnormalities or some mutations that are commonly associated with MDS also, we're doing more often, and that is how we are diagnosing.

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