Treatment of immune thrombocytopenia associated with interferon therapy of hepatitis C with the anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody, rituximab.

abstract：:A new density system for the separation of human red blood cells by density-gradient centrifugation is described. The gradient medium is made with colloidal silica particles coated with polyvinylpyrrolidone suspended in aqueous solution of meglamine diatrizoate. By this method, more than 10 red-cell fractions can be s...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Vettore L,De Matteis MC,Zampini P

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indolent non-hodgkin lymphomas (iNHL) are a rare cause of monoclonal immunoglobulin deposits-related glomerulopathy (mIgGN). In patients with iNHL-related mIgGN, whether treatment should include either single or a combination of drug(s) to target the malignant clone and renal inflammation remains elusive. In this retr...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Perry M,Delarche A,Ribes D,Vergez F,Guilbeau-Frugier C,Laurent C,Huart A,Tavitian S,El Hachem H,Oberic L,Chauveau D,Michallet AS,Ysebaert L,Faguer S

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a unique case of adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL). The patient had typical clinicohematological features as ATL, but showed a lack of antibody to human T-cell leukemia virus type-1 (HTLV-1) and was negative for HTLV-1 proviral DNA in the peripheral mononuclear cells by means of polymerase chain reactio...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Nakase K,Hasegawa M,Tsuji K,Ikeda T,Tamaki S,Tanigawa M,Miyanishi E,Shiku H

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that humic acid (well-water humic acid, HA, and synthetic humic acid, SHA) enhances cell surface expression of tissue factor (TF). Here we report that incubation of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) for 2 hr with HA or SHA cause a rapid rise in TF mRNA levels, as shown by Northern...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Yang HL,Chiu HC,Lu FJ

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunomodulatory drugs (IMiDs) are a cornerstone in the treatment of multiple myeloma (MM), but specific markers to predict outcome are still missing. Recent work pointed to a prognostic role for IMiD target genes (e.g. CRBN). Moreover, indirect activity of IMiDs on immune cells correlated with outcome, raising the po...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Bolomsky A,Hübl W,Spada S,Müldür E,Schlangen K,Heintel D,Rocci A,Weißmann A,Fritz V,Willheim M,Zojer N,Palumbo A,Ludwig H

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) analysis of polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-amplified products of immunoglobulin (Ig) heavy chain rearrangements can be used to analyze B cell clonalities and clonal identities of B cells from different samples. However, the usefulness of the PCR-SSCP analysis is not fu...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Shiokawa S,Nishimura J,Uike N,Saburi Y,Suehiro T,Yamamoto K

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fat embolism syndrome is an important complication of patients with sickle cell hemoglobinopathies because of severe morbidity and mortality. Our recent experience with three cases that survived with intensive supportive care and prompt use of transfusion stimulates this review. A high index of suspicion, prompt u...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Dang NC,Johnson C,Eslami-Farsani M,Haywood LJ

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 63-year-old white man with myasthenia gravis and red cell aplasia was found to have hepatic iron overload. The differential diagnosis included hereditary hemochromatosis and secondary iron overload related to red cell aplasia. Family studies of siblings, including HLA typing, initially suggested a diagnosis of secon...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Adams PC

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Red blood cell (RBC) autoantibodies are a relatively uncommon cause of anemia. However, autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) must be considered in the differential diagnosis of hemolytic anemias, especially if the patient has a concomitant lymphoproliferative disorder, autoimmune disease, or viral or mycoplasmal infecti...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Gehrs BC,Friedberg RC

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The standard dose of clofarabine is 52 mg/m2 for pediatrics and 40 mg/m2 in adults. Clofarabine dosed at 52 mg/m2 was used in adult patients with refractory ALL to maximize response before allo-HSCT. All patients had a significant response to therapy. Published pharmacokinetic analysis revealed no difference in peak p...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： McGregor BA,Brown AW,Osswald MB,Savona MR

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite substantial progress in the treatment of AML, a proportion of patients do not achieve first complete remission (1(st) CR) with the induction chemotherapy, and, among patients achieving it, a majority is expected to relapse within three years. As allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation has been estab...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Dauguet N,Récher C,Demur C,Fournié JJ,Poupot M,Poupot R

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cephalosporins are commonly used drugs that interact with red blood cell membranes. They frequently cause a positive direct antiglobulin test but rarely cause hemolysis. A case of cefotetan-induced hemolytic anemia is described in which two types of antibodies were detected. One reacted with red blood cells by a hapte...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Ehmann WC

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-nine HIV-1 antibody positive and 58 antibody negative hemophiliacs were evaluated over a 2 year study period to gain insight into the natural history and prognosis of HIV-1 disease in members of this risk group. Mean CD4 (Leu 3+) cell counts calculated at 6 month intervals decreased gradually in seropositive pat...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Teitel JM,Freedman JJ,Garvey MB,Kardish M

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of drug-induced neutropenia has not changed in the western hemisphere over the last 30 years. Yet, the drug panorama has changed considerably. This implies that host factors may play an intriguing role for this idiosyncratic reaction. The knowledge as to mechanisms for the reaction has advanced with emer...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Tesfa D,Keisu M,Palmblad J

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the haplotypes of 10 MstII-defined SS patients and a S/beta o thalassemia from the Central African Republic, exhibiting 7 different atypical haplotypes that are different from the typical Bantu haplotype that characterize over 93% of the beta s bearing chromosomes in that region of Africa. Of the seven ...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Srinivas R,Dunda O,Krishnamoorthy R,Fabry ME,Georges A,Labie D,Nagel RL

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of evidence suggests that iron overload is associated with inferior outcomes after myeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). However, all of those studies used surrogate markers of iron overload, especially serum ferritin, and most had a retrospective design. We conducted ...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Armand P,Sainvil MM,Kim HT,Rhodes J,Cutler C,Ho VT,Koreth J,Alyea EP,Neufeld EJ,Kwong RY,Soiffer RJ,Antin JH

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have generated a murine hybridoma that secretes a monoclonal antibody (mAb) that is highly specific for hemoglobin C (HbC) [alpha 2 beta 2 6(A3)Glu----Lys] and shows no cross reactivity with HbA, HbA2, HbF, HbS, HbE, or Hb O-Arab. Using this antibody, we developed a simple and rapid enzyme linked immunosorbent assa...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Shyamala M,Kiefer CR,Moscoso H,Garver FA

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An infectious episode is the presenting manifestation of hairy cell leukemia (HCL) in approximately 30% of cases. Most often this is bacterial and only rare cases of opportunistic fungal infection are described. We report a patient who presented with sporotrichal involvement of multiple cutaneous sites and lymph nodes...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Kumar S,Kumar D,Gourley WK,Alperin JB

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This analysis, using data from the bortezomib-melphalan-prednisone (VMP) arm of the Phase III VISTA study, investigated whether increased cumulative bortezomib dose could improve overall survival (OS) in transplant-ineligible patients with previously untreated multiple myeloma. Median cumulative bortezomib dose receiv...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Mateos MV,Richardson PG,Dimopoulos MA,Palumbo A,Anderson KC,Shi H,Elliott J,Dow E,van de Velde H,Niculescu L,San Miguel JF

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Splenic lymphoma with villous lymphocytes (SLVL) is a relatively new entity with only a few reports published. We report seven cases of SLVL with detailed clinicopathologic and comprehensive immunophenotypic studies to further characterize this lymphoma, which is frequently confused with hairy cell leukemia and other ...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Sun T,Susin M,Brody J,Dittmar K,Teichberg S,Weiner R,Lin JH,Felber N

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is defined as ≥20% myeloblasts, representing a change from original guidelines where ≤30% blasts were considered as myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), and 20-29% blasts classified as refractory anemia with excess blasts in transformation (RAEB-T). Whether the diagnostic bone marrow blast per...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： DiNardo CD,Garcia-Manero G,Pierce S,Nazha A,Bueso-Ramos C,Jabbour E,Ravandi F,Cortes J,Kantarjian H

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole (Bactrim r) is a widely used antibiotic combination effective against a broad spectrum of microbial organisms. There are reports of neutropenia developing during even brief periods of oral therapy, particularly in individuals with either folate deficiency or increased folate requireme...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Bjornson BH,McIntyre AP,Harvey JM,Tauber AI

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sickle cell disease (SCD) nephropathy and lower estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) are risk factors for early mortality. Furthermore, rate of eGFR decline predicts progression to end-stage renal disease in many clinical settings. However, factors predicting renal function decline in SCD are poorly documented....

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Xu JZ,Garrett ME,Soldano KL,Chen ST,Clish CB,Ashley-Koch AE,Telen MJ

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is a unique type of lymphoma with a prognosis intermediate between indolent and aggressive types. The purpose of this study was to study blood cytokine levels in newly diagnosed and relapsed MCL patients with respect to patterns of abnormalities and relationship to the MCL International Prog...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Sonbol MB,Maurer MJ,Stenson MJ,Allmer C,LaPlant BR,Weiner GJ,Macon WR,Cerhan JR,Witzig TE,Gupta M

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the precise mechanisms of molecular and cellular regulation of hemopoiesis, it is necessary to develop a chemically defined culture assay for purified hemopoietic progenitors. To approach this long-term goal, we attempted to develop a serum-free culture system for enriched human progenitors that permits e...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Sonoda Y,Ogawa M

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temporal development of the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) was studied in wide, short vacuum tubes. It was found that in about 3% of the specimens arriving in the laboratory the ESR developed in three different phases during 60 min, whereas the other showed only two. The specimens with three phases behaved s...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Kallner A

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the current study, we investigated C/EBPA gene mutations and promoter hypermethylation in a series of 53 patients with CN-AML. In addition, we also analyzed two other frequent mutations (FLT3/ITD and NPM1) in these patients and correlated them with C/EBPA gene alterations. 13/53 patients were FLT3/ITD+/NPM1-, 11/53...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Lu Y,Chen W,Chen W,Stein A,Weiss LM,Huang Q

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin lymphoma (NLPHL) is a rare form of Hodgkin lymphoma that typically presents as early stage, indolent disease in young adult males. The relationship between NLPHL and DLBCL is incompletely understood, and there remains a paucity of data with regard the incidence and management of ...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Eyre TA,Gatter K,Collins GP,Hall GW,Watson C,Hatton CS

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrillar granules (FGs) represent neutrophilic primary granules containing clustered filaments. We investigated neutrophils in the bone marrow obtained from 17 patients with chronic myeloproliferative disorders (CMPD) by electron microscopy. FG-positive neutrophils were seen in 15 of the 17 CMPDs with varying frequen...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Takemori N,Hirai K,Onodera R,Saito N,Miyokawa N

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six patients and their parents from five different families with Hb H have been evaluated clinically and hematologically. Previous studies using restriction endonuclease mapping technique indicated that alpha-thalassemia determinants in these cases are heterogeneous. Only one of the five cases have the usual genotype ...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Altay C,Gurgey A,Tuncbilek E

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00