ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | April 17, 2024
Patterns of microRNA and CD Expression Associated with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia in a Set of Sudanese Patients
Ekhlas A. Abuelfadol, Ahmed Abdalla Agabeldour, Inaam Eloshary Mohammed Hayaty, Mahadi Musa Mohammed Abdallah, Hassan Yousif Adam Regal, Khalil Ali Ibraheim, Ahmed Abdallah, Rogeia Mahmoud Niyle, Salah Eldinn Eltahir Gumaa, Hassan Mohamed Musa Salih, Hussain Gadelkarim Ahmed
Page no 33-41 |
DOI: 10.36348/sjbr.2024.v09i03.001
Background: CLL is an adult leukemia presented with a clonal accumulation of lymphocytes. Immunophenotypic changes can be effective in predicting clinical course, the survival of patients, and determining first-line treatment. Methodology: The current research used lymphoma data obtained from El-Obeid Oncology Center. Included were details pertaining to lymphoma patients who received their diagnoses between January 2018 and January 2020. One hundred patients, including sixty-one with CLL and forty-nine without, made up the full coverage sample. Immunohistochemistry and molecular analyses were conducted on a subset of individuals. Additionally, several patients underwent flow cytometry analysis for some CD markers as well as microRNA prediction. Results: CD19 was shown to be positively expressed in all CLL patients studied (100%), while 88% of non-CLL patients also showed the same expression. Ninety-three percent of the CLL patients and nine percent of the non-CLL patients examined showed CD5-positive expressions. Only 16.7% of CLL patients and 66.7% of non-CLL patients tested positive for CD22. Among the CLL patients studied, 92.3% showed CD23 positive expressions, while no non-CLL patients did. Every single patient with CLL and every single patient without CLL tested negative for CD38. We observed the presence of FMC70 in 16.7% of the analyzed CLL samples and in two out of the three non-CLL cases. We evaluated the predictive significance of microRNA in a cohort of 12 patients, finding that around 83% showed positive expression. Conclusion: CLL is more prevalent in Sudan than the reported global epidemiology and more common among elder men than non-CLL variants. According to the molecular prognostic markers, CLL has bad prognostic indicators.