Myelodysplastic syndrome

It appears that MDS has not been reported before in Tanzania. We report two patients who were referred to Muhimbili Medical Centre; Dar es Salaam and subsequently diagnosed as MDS type CMML

Ocular granulocytic sarcoma with acute myeloid leukaemia in Dar es Salaam

It appears that granulocytic sarcoma in children has not been reported before in Tanzania. This report describes three cases of granulocytic sarcoma which were associated with otherwise typical acute myeloid leukaemia

[Results of clinical and hematologic examination of donors infected with the human immunodeficiency virus]. / Rezul'taty klinicheskogo i gematologicheskogo obsledovaniia donorov, infitsirovannykh virusom immunodefitsita cheloveka.

The data on the myelogram, peripheral blood and the proteinogram of 30 donors infected with human immunodeficiency virus are provided. The donors were observed for 6 months in the Department of Hematology and Blood Transfusion of the Mukhimbili hospital (Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania). It is concluded that the above-enumerated parameters should be controlled over time, which is likely to be instrumental in the diagnosis of a qualitatively new condition of the patients--a stage of human immunodeficiency infection transformation to AIDS.