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Do you check LDH levels for patients with CLL who are asymptomatic and on surveillance?

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Medical Oncology · UPMC Hillman Cancer Center

I personally include LDH as part of my routine chemistry panel monitoring of CLL in surveillance for several reasons. Often, patients with CLL can show up with new anemia; in such cases, the differential diagnosis is autoimmune hemolytic anemia versus disease progression. An elevated, new LDH level ...

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