Retinoic Acid Syndrome | Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia

Has the patient recently been diagnosed as having acute promyelocytic leukemia?

Has the patient been recently started on trans-retinoic acid therapy?

• an increasing WBC count?

• fever?

• an increase in body weight?

• respiratory distress with dyspnea?

• a pulmonary infiltrate on chest X-ray?

• episodic hypotension?

• a pleural or pericardial effusion?

• cardiac failure with edema of the lower extremities?

• renal failure?