Pancytopenia as the main manifestation of human immunodeficiency virus infection in the AIDS stage The authors present a case.

The authors present a case report of 59-years-old woman examined for pancytopenia recently diagnosed during hospitalization for bilateral interstitial pneumonia without any confirmed etiological agents. Concomitantly, some systemic symptoms like lack of appetite and weight loss were present. Primary hematological disease was ruled out. Positivity of serological screening for HIV-1,2 was rather surprising. Absolute count of CD4+ lymphocytes was 8/μl. Thus, HIV infection was already in stage of AIDS and retrospectively, the interstitial pneumonia has to be judged as AIDS-indicative illness.

Very rare near-haploid acute lymphoblastic leukemia resistant to immunotherapy and CAR-T therapy in 19-year-old male patient.

Near-haploid acute lymphoblastic leukemia is rare subgroup of the disease, which is very important due to very poor prognosis and resistance to treatment including novel monoclonal antibodies and CAR-T therapy.