Case Report

Acute Myeloid Leukemia in an Infant with t(8;19)(p11.2;q13) Translocation: Case Report and a Review of the Literature

Table 1

Summary of t(8;19)(p11.2;q13) cases in the literature.

Age/sexDiseaseFABKaryotypeAML treatmentOutcomeReference (year)

8 months/MDe novoM546,XY,t(8;19)(p11.2;q13.2) [8]/46,XY,t(8;19), −1,+1q+[22]/46,XY,t(8;19),−16,+16q+[6]Chemotherapy ⟶ BMTRemission ⟶ death due to VODBrizard et al. [8] (1988)
15 years/FDe novoM446,XX,t(8;19)(p11;q13) [6]/46,XX [15]Chemotherapy aloneRemission (14 months)Stark et al. [9] (1995)
76 years/MDe novoM5a46,XY,t(8;19)(p11;q13.3)[18]/46,XY [2]Chemotherapy aloneRemission (8 months)Gervais et al. [7] (2008)
71 years/MSecondary AMLM446,XY,t(8;19)(p11;q13)[20]Chemotherapy aloneNo response to therapy—death due to disease progressionChinen et al. [10] (2014)
3 months/FDe novoM446,XX,t(8;19)(p11.2;q13.3)[16]/46,XX [4]Chemotherapy aloneRemission (24 months)Current case

FAB, French-American-British classification; AML, acute myeloid leukemia; BMT, bone marrow transplantation; VOD, veno-occlusive disease.