Hematological Anomalies in Children With Rasopathy

During childhood, patients with RASopathies (Noonan syndrome and related diseases) can harbor various hematological anomalies ranging from isolated monocytosis, myelemia, thrombocytopenia or splenomegaly to myeloproliferative disorders. These anomalies may spontaneously disappear or persist, sometimes leading to juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia. Guidelines for initial screening and subsequent hematological follow-up have recently been published in France: peripheral blood analysis should be performed in all newly diagnosed patients and followed by biannual peripheral blood analysis in infants until the age of 2 years. In order to describe the characteristics of these abnormalities in terms of their incidence, age of occurrence, evolution and relation to genotype, we are conducting a longitudinal prospective study whose aim is to analyze peripheral blood cell counts and smears at diagnos