Hospital readmission for adult acute sickle cell painful episodes: frequency, etiology, and prognostic significance.

abstract：:We report the case of an immunocompetent woman who developed disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) due to acute cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and was successfully treated with plasma exchange. Extensive investigations revealed no other cause for her DIC, and she did not have any recurrence after more than 1 y...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Niewold TB,Bundrick JB

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation pathways for the generation of enzymes involved in blood clotting, clot lysis, complement activation, and kinin generation are briefly reviewed. The interrelationship of the four systems is illustrated by the multiple functions of four key enzymes: Factor XIIa, kallikrein, plasmin, and C1 esterase. The ...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Murano G

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet antibodies are detectable in only about 50% of patients with chronic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (AITP). We determined platelet antibodies against GPIa/IIa, GPIb/IX, GPIIb/IIIa, and GPV and reticulated platelets in three female patients with AITP, before and after immunoadsorption treatment. None of the three...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Leitner GC,Stiegler G,Horvath M,Hoecker P,Sagaster P,Panzer S

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Celecoxib, a specific cyclooxygenase-2 (Cox-2) inhibitor, has been shown to possess antitumor activity in a variety of cancer cells. However, the antitumor activity of celecoxib in hematopoietic tumors, especially in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), has not been well established. This study was designed to investigate ...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Zhang GS,Liu DS,Dai CW,Li RJ

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 45-year-old female patient with recurrent spontaneous deep vein thrombosis associated with an isolated hypoplasminogenemia (plasminogen activity and antigen level of 42% and 37%, respectively). The plasminogen molecule was normal as demonstrated by a normal activation by tissue plasminogen activator, elect...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Leebeek FW,Knot EA,Ten Cate JW,Traas DW

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelin-1 (Et-1) is a vasoconstrictor produced by endothelial and vascular smooth muscle cells in response to hypoxia, which induces hypertrophy in cultured cardiac myocytes. We measured plasma Et-1 levels and left ventricular dimensions in 13 patients with sickle cell anemia (SCD) and in 12 African-American contro...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Werdehoff SG,Moore RB,Hoff CJ,Fillingim E,Hackman AM

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of teardrop-shaped red cells in peripheral blood has traditionally been felt to reflect altered marrow architecture, namely myelofibrosis. We evaluated two patients with splenomegaly, moderately severe hemolytic anemia due to warm-reactive IgG anti-red cell autoantibody, and bone marrow erythroid hyperpla...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Farolino DL,Rustagi PK,Currie MS,Doeblin TD,Logue GL

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified protein-bound cobalamin absorption test was used to study dietary cobalamin absorption in healthy adults of different age groups and patients with isolated low serum concentrations of cobalamin. Dietary cobalamin absorption was significantly reduced in healthy adults aged 55-75 years compared with young adu...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Scarlett JD,Read H,O'Dea K

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 64-year-old woman with mild bilateral parotid gland swelling and bilateral lower extremity purpura was admitted for evaluation of xerostomia and pancytopenia. The patient had an increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate, pancytopenia, and positive tests for antibodies to nuclear antigen, SS-A, and SS-B. Impaired cell...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Seki T,Kiyosawa K,Monno S,Imai Y,Furukawa K,Kumazawa S,Ota M,Saito H,Furuta S,Nakahata T

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study concerned the gamma chain composition of Hb F and the haplotypes of 44 patients with beta-thalassemia major or intermedia and many of their relatives. Seventeen patients came from Northern (Turkish) Cyprus, 12 from the Istanbul area, and 15 from Macedonia and Bulgaria. Analysis of the A gamma T-G gamma-A ga...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Aksoy M,Kutlar A,Efremov GD,Nikolov N,Petkov G,Reese AL,Harano T,Chen SS,Huisman TH

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2010, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) added a black box warning to anti-D immune globulin (Rho(D) immune globulin, anti-D) for immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) to warn of the complications related to severe hemolysis. The objective of this retrospective medical record review was to examine recent trends in anti...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Long M,Kalish LA,Neufeld EJ,Grace RF

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of idiopathic immune-mediated von Willebrand's disease (AvWD) associated angiodysplasia and recurrent lower gastrointestinal bleeding is reported. Coagulation parameters at presentation were activated partial thromboplastin time of 41 sec, bleeding time >15 min, factor VIII procoagulant activity, 5%; von Willeb...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Alhumood SA,Devine DV,Lawson L,Nantel SH,Carter CJ

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied red blood cell morphology in two marathon runners before, immediately after, and 1 day after a marathon race. A discocyte-stomatocyte transformation was found by light microscopy of wet preparations and also by scanning electron microscopy, with about one-half the erythrocytes becoming cup-shaped after the ...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Reinhart WH,Chien S

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal diagnosis was carried out on a woman who had previously given birth to a son with a spontaneous mutation of C-->T transition at nt 31133 of the factor IX (F.IX) gene. The diagnosis was performed on chorionic villi sampling by the method of amplification-created restriction site (ACRS). It revealed a female fe...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Young JH,Wang JC,Gau JP,Hu HT

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intravascular pool of human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) is composed of one compartment which is circulating and another that is marginated to the vascular endothelium. Administration of B-adrenergic agonists leads to a rapid demargination with an increase in the circulating PMN pool. The marginating PMN has...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Berkow RL,Dodson RW

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lupus anticoagulant may be accompanied by an acquired factor II deficiency and bleeding. We report on a patient with a lupus anticoagulant and factor II (Fll) deficiency responsive to Danazol. Acquired hypoprothrombinemia (FII) with the lupus anticoagulant (LA) may be accompanied by a hemorrhagic diathesis. A 64-y...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Williams S,Linardic C,Wilson O,Comp P,Gralnick HR

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced intensity conditioning (RIC) regimens are widely used in allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT). In this study, we retrospectively investigated the clinical outcomes of RIC with fludarabine (Flu; 180 mg/m(2)), intravenous busulfan (BU; 6.4 mg/kg) or oral BU (8 mg/kg), and low-dose total body irradiation (T...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Takahata M,Hashino S,Okada K,Onozawa M,Kahata K,Sugita J,Shigematsu A,Kondo T,Yamamoto S,Endo T,Nishio M,Ito YM,Tanaka J,Koike T,Asaka M,Imamura M

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the incidence and prognostic impact of monosomal karyotype (MK) in 405 higher-risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) patients treated with 5-AZA. The MK was present in 66 out of 405 (16.3%) patients, most of whom had complex karyotype (CK). MK was strongly associated with CK and the cytoge...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Papageorgiou SG,Vasilatou D,Kontos CK,Kotsianidis I,Symeonidis A,Galanopoulos AG,Hatzimichael E,Megalakaki A,Poulakidas E,Diamantopoulos P,Vassilakopoulos TP,Zikos P,Papadaki H,Mparmparousi D,Bouronikou E,Panayiotidis P,V

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 37-year-old untransfused, non-drinking man with Hemoglobin H-CS disease presented with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, markedly elevated serum ferritin level, and marked iron deposition in hepatocytes. He did not carry either of the two common mutations of the HLA-H gene for hereditary hemochromatosis, namely, ...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Chim CS,Chan V,Todd D

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and accurate micromethod for the determination of erythrocyte osmotic fragility is introduced. The method uses a laminar parabolic flow pattern, together with gravity, to retain cells in a long, small-diameter tube while a solution with decreasing osmolarity is passed through the tube. As the cells hemolyze, ...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Ito Y,Carmeci P,Steele R

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor cells of 14 cases of non-Hodgkin lymphomas and 2 cases of Hodgkin disease were tested for the presence of the transferrin receptor (CD71) by flow cytofluorimetry before 67gallium imaging. It appeared that expression of CD71 phenotype was closely related to the positivity of gallium scan before therapy. We feel t...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Feremans W,Bujan W,Neve P,Delville JP,Schandene L

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) may convert to a diffuse large cell lymphoma (Richter's syndrome) over time. In occasional cases of Richter's transformation, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) has been identified in the lymphoma cells. To evaluate the association of EBV infection with Richter's syndrome, the biopsy specimens...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Ansell SM,Li CY,Lloyd RV,Phyliky RL

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In HIV-positive patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), no benefit of adding rituximab to chemotherapy was seen in a randomized controlled trial (RCT). We performed a meta-analysis of prospective studies to ascertain outcomes in HIV-positive NHL patients treated with chemotherapy (chemo) versus rituximab and chemo (...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Castillo JJ,Echenique IA

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Micro-transplantation (MST) by chemotherapy, combined with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor-mobilized peripheral blood stem cell (GPBSC) infusion, from an HLA partial matched related donor has shown some encouraging effective therapy for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). However, the outcome of human leukocyte antige...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Hu KX,Du X,Guo M,Yu CL,Qiao JH,Sun QY,Zuo HL,Cai B,Huang YJ,Ai HS,Dong Z,Wang Y

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a laparoscopic splenectomy (LS) in 60 patients (age 9-83, 45 females) with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) who did not achieve sustained remission on steroid therapy. Using a modified procedure, the mean duration of LS was 78 min (range 25-240 min) and surgery was associated with only 5% major a...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Szold A,Schwartz J,Abu-Abeid S,Bulvik S,Eldor A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the calreticulin gene (CALR) were recently identified in approximately 70-80% of patients with JAK2-V617F-negative essential thrombocytosis and primary myelofibrosis. All frameshift mutations generate a recurring novel C-terminus. Here we provide evidence that mutant calreticulin does not accumulate effic...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Garbati MR,Welgan CA,Landefeld SH,Newell LF,Agarwal A,Dunlap JB,Chourasia TK,Lee H,Elferich J,Traer E,Rattray R,Cascio MJ,Press RD,Bagby GC,Tyner JW,Druker BJ,Dao KH

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corticosteroids are essential and one of the mainstays in the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). In vitro assays show that dexamethasone(DXM) is five to six times more cytotoxic to leukemic lymphoblasts than prednisolone (PDN) [1], and the use of DXM as an alternative drug for PDN is an important issue i...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Zheng C,Liu X,Wu J,Cai X,Zhu W,Sun Z

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder that requires lifelong adherence to a complicated and burdensome medical regimen which could potentially impact emotional functioning of patients. The importance of understanding and promoting healthy emotional functioning is crucial not only to psychological well-being, but ...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Mednick L,Yu S,Trachtenberg F,Xu Y,Kleinert DA,Giardina PJ,Kwiatkowski JL,Foote D,Thayalasuthan V,Porter JB,Thompson AA,Schilling L,Quinn CT,Neufeld EJ,Yamashita R,Thalassemia Clinical Research Network.

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here a patient with de novo acute myelocytic leukemia with trilineage myelodysplasia (AML/TMDS) in whom cytogenetic analysis was normal at diagnosis and in whom Philadelphia chromosome (Ph1) with monosomy 7 emerged at the terminal stage of the disease. Reverse transcription polymerse chain reaction (RT-PCTR)...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Matsue K,Miyamoto T,Ito M,Tsukuda K

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：DISEASE OVERVIEW:Polycythemia vera (PV) and essential thrombocythemia (ET) are myeloproliferative neoplasms primarily characterized by erythrocytosis and thrombocytosis, respectively. Other disease features include leukocytosis, splenomegaly, thrombohemorrhagic complications, vasomotor disturbances, pruritus, and a sma...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Tefferi A

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00