Amebic Encephalitis in a Patient with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia on Ibrutinib Therapy

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is the most common type of leukemia in Western countries. A common first-line therapy offered to qualifying patients includes ibrutinib, an oral covalent inhibitor of Bruton’s tyrosine kinase. Treatment of CLL with ibrutinib therapy is generally well tolerated; how...

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Published in:Case Reports in Hematology
Main Authors: Ensi Voshtina, Huiya Huang, Renju Raj, Ehab Atallah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018-01-01
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/6514604