Successful Treatment of Chronic Myeloproliferative Disease-unclassifiable (CMPD-U) with No Chromosomal Abnormalities by Imatinib Mesylate

Abstract

We report a chronic myeloproliferative disease-unclassifiable (CMPD-U) patient who achieved hematological remission following imatinib mesylate (imatinib). Chromosomal and molecular analyses demonstrated no genetic abnormalities of c-abl, bcr-abl, c-kit or platelet-derived growth factor receptor (PDGFR) genes from hematopoietic cells. Although there has been one report of CMPD-U patient with chromosomal abnormalities of the PDGFR gene having complete hematologic responses upon treatment with imatinib, there have not been similar reports of patients without chromosomal abnormalities. This is the first case report of a CMPD-U patient with no chromosomal abnormalities who completely responded to treatment with imatinib.