Case 1. The laboratory findings of a hematological analysis of a 53-year-old woman with palpitations and dyspnea revealed the following: red blood cell (RBC) count: 9.4×10 5 /μL with 60.0‰ reticulocytes; Hb: 3.7 g/ dL; mean corpuscular volume (MCV): 124.5 fL; white blood cell (WBC) count: 2,800/μL with 10.0% myeloblasts. Case 2. Similarly, a 42-year-old man with dizziness had a RBC count of 1.63×10 6 /μL with 24.0% reticulocytes, an Hb level of 6.0 g/dL, an MCV of 120.2 fL and a WBC count of 3,100/μL with 4.0% myeloblasts. Bone marrow aspirates in both patients confirmed a diagnosis of acute erythroid leukemia (AEL), which can present as marked macrocytic anemia with an MCV in excess of 120 fL and hemolysis.
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