Disseminated intravascular coagulation due to cytomegalovirus infection in an immunocompetent adult treated with plasma exchange.

abstract：:Imatinib mesylate radically changed the natural history of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). The recent availability of alternative tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) renders the clinical management of CML more complex. In this article, we summarize our long-term single institution experience. From 2003 to 2012, 102 pati...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Viganò I,Di Giacomo N,Bozzani S,Antolini L,Piazza R,Gambacorti Passerini C

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reverse transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RTqPCR)is currently the most sensitive tool available for the routine monitoring of disease level in patients undergoing treatment for BCRABL1 associated malignancies. Considerable effort has been invested at both the local and international levels to stand...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Gerrard G,Mudge K,Foskett P,Stevens D,Alikian M,White HE,Cross NC,Apperley J,Foroni L

更新日期：2012-07-01 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：DISEASE OVERVIEW:Immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis is a clonal, nonproliferative plasma cell disorder in which fragments of immunoglobulin light or heavy chain are deposited in tissues. Clinical features depend on organs involved but can include heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, nephrotic syndrome, h...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Gertz MA

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent progress in sensitive KIT D816V mutation analysis suggests that mutation analysis of peripheral blood (PB) represents a promising diagnostic test in mastocytosis. However, there is a need for systematic assessment of the analytical sensitivity and specificity of the approach in order to establish its value ...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Kristensen T,Vestergaard H,Bindslev-Jensen C,Møller MB,Broesby-Olsen S,Mastocytosis Centre, Odense University Hospital (MastOUH).

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial and metachronous aggregations of malignant lymphoma are well-documented, but the molecular basis of a predisposition for development of lymphoma is as yet unclear. Malignant lymphomas have been described as part of the spectrum of neoplasias in Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS), which is associated with constitution...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Pötzsch C,Schaefer HE,Lübbert M

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agnogenic myeloid metaplasia (AMM) is a chronic myeloproliferative disorder arising from a single hematopoietic cell. Approximately 5% of reported cases of AMM have terminated in leukemic crisis; however, the precise characteristics of the leukemic cells have rarely been reported. We report a case of AMM that occurred...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Tasaka T,Nagai M,Murao S,Yamaguchi M,Kitanaka A,Sasaki K,Murata M,Tanaka T,Kuwabara H,Ikeda K

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Botrocetin, a protein isolated from the venom of the snake Bothrops jararaca, induces platelet aggregation/agglutination by von Willebrand factor (vWF) binding to the membrane glycoprotein (GP) Ib, an action resembling that of ristocetin. However, some differences in the interaction between vWF and platelet GPIb induc...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Nishio K,Fujimura Y,Niinomi K,Takahashi Y,Yoshioka A,Fukui H,Usami Y,Titani K,Ruggeri ZM,Zimmerman TS

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this descriptive study, all 425 reports were included concerning drug-associated agranulocytosis as registered between 1974 and 1994 in the files of the Drug Safety Unit of the Dutch Inspectorate for Health Care. All reports were analysed as to the probability of agranulocytosis or neutropenia according to previous...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： van der Klauw MM,Wilson JH,Stricker BH

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancytopenia is a rare complication of the thionamide therapy reported secondary to aplastic anemia, the bone marrow being invariably hypocellular. We present a case of a 16-year-old female with Graves' disease who presented with massive bone marrow plasmocytosis mimicking multiple myeloma. The patient had already bee...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Breier DV,Rendo P,Gonzalez J,Shilton G,Stivel M,Goldztein S

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with congenital protein-C deficiency was treated with stanozolol for 8 weeks to increase circulating levels of protein C. A rise in protein C was achieved, accompanied by an increase in factor II, factor X, antithrombin III, and protein S; but at the 8th week the patient suffered a transient ischemia attack....

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： De Stefano V,Leone G,Teofili L,Ferrelli R,Pollari G,Antonini V,Bizzi B

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:National AIDS surveillance suggests that approximately 3.5% of all hemophilic patients in the United States have developed AIDS as of February 1988; however, the cumulative incidence of AIDS among seropositive patients at individual hemophilia treatment centers (HTCs) has been reported to be as high as 12%. The purpos...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Stehr-Green JK,Jason JM,Evatt BL

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In May 2005 at the 8th International Symposium on Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS), a consensus meeting was held on iron overload in MDS (Seymour, Hematol Oncol Clin 2005; Suppl 1:18-25). The recommendations of the 2005 consensus meeting were discussed in the context of currently available evidence at the 9th Internati...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Bennett JM,MDS Foundation's Working Group on Transfusional Iron Overload.

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of carbonic anhydrase isozyme I (CA-I) by erythropoietin or hemin was investigated using erythroleukemia (K562) cells. Immunological estimation and purification of carbonic anhydrases showed that untreated K562 cells contained only carbonic anhydrase isozyme II(CA-II), while incubation of the cells with 2 un...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Kondo T,Sakai M,Isobe H,Taniguchi N,Nishi S,Kawakami Y

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case report describes a patient with hepatitis C virus infection responding to pegylated INF/ribaviron therapy, who developed immune thrombocytopenia. The severe thrombocytopenia failed to resolve with cessation of the peg-IFN/ribaviron. Because of rising hepatitis C virus RNA levels and evidence of rising serum ...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Weitz IC

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：DISEASE OVERVIEW:The myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are a very heterogeneous group of myeloid disorders characterized by peripheral blood cytopenias and increased risk of transformation to acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). MDS occurs more frequently in older males and in individuals with prior exposure to cytotoxic th...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Garcia-Manero G

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we investigated the possible role of neutrophil (PMN) elastase and its natural inhibitor, alpha1-proteinase inhibitor (alpha1-PI) in the pathogenesis of the pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE)-like syndrome which is found in patients with homozygous beta-thalassemia. We studied 30 beta-thalassemia homozygotes...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Samarkos M,Aessopos A,Fragodimitri C,Karagiorga M,Kalotychou V,Voskaridou E,Kavouklis E,Loukopoulos D

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gaucher disease (GD) is a lysosomal storage disorder; symptomatic patients with type 1 GD need long-term disease-specific therapy of which the standard of care has been enzyme replacement therapy (ERT). Thirty-eight of 40 patients (aged 9-71 years) clinically stable on ERT with imiglucerase, safely switched to a compa...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Elstein D,Mehta A,Hughes DA,Giraldo P,Charrow J,Smith L,Shankar SP,Hangartner TN,Kunes Y,Wang N,Crombez E,Zimran A

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with light-chain myeloma or primary AL-amyloidosis, 24-hr light-chain excretion in the urine is considered an essential marker of the tumor mass. However, 24-hr urine collection and analysis may be cumbersome and prone to inaccuracy. Recently, a sensitive immunonephelometric assay for immunoglobulin free l...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Alyanakian MA,Abbas A,Delarue R,Arnulf B,Aucouturier P

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial and protozoal infections can cause thrombocytopenia and may mimic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). Brucella species and Toxoplasma are among the infectious agents with protean clinical manifestations which may induce immune thrombocytopenia. In rare cases, thrombocytopenia can be severe and may res...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Gürkan E,Başlamişli F,Güvenç B,Bozkurt B,Unsal C

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 28-year-old asymptomatic male of Iranian Jewish (Meshadi) heritage was found on routine exam to have an erythrocytosis (RBC = 6.22 x 10(12)/l, Hgb = 19.2 g/dl, Hct = 58.9%). Splenomegaly was absent on physical exam. There was no family history of erythrocytosis. His oxygen dissociation curve was left-shifted with a ...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Hoyer JD,Allen SL,Beutler E,Kubik K,West C,Fairbanks VF

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations at positions beta IVS1-6, beta IVS1-110, and beta 39 of the beta globin gene are responsible for the three most common thalassemic genes in the Mediterranean population. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was employed to amplify a 536 base pair segment surrounding this region. Nonradioactive labelling of an...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Hendy JG,Cauchi MN

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mast cell disease (MCD), a proliferation of mast cells (MC), is occasionally associated with hematologic malignancies. Neoplastic MC have activating c-kit mutations. c-kit is a receptor tyrosine kinase required for the development, proliferation, and survival of MC. Interaction of c-kit with its ligand stem cell facto...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Pullarkat VA,Pullarkat ST,Calverley DC,Brynes RK

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug metabolizing genes are involved in the detoxification of chemical carcinogens. Polymorphisms in drug-metabolizing genes affect the risk of some forms of cancer. We analyzed six polymorphisms to evaluate their association with risk for non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), and to examine whether smoking modifies these assoc...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Kim HN,Kim NY,Yu L,Kim YK,Lee IK,Yang DH,Lee JJ,Shin MH,Park KS,Choi JS,Kim HJ

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of heparin on platelet aggregation was systematically examined on platelets in plasma (PRP), as well as on gel-filtered, washed, and formaldehyde-fixed platelets. Results indicate that, although heparin causes a mild potentiation of platelet aggregation in the PRP systems, a significant inhibitory activity ...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Saba HI,Saba SR,Morelli GA

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete remission can be achieved in 60-80% of adults with diffuse aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. However, 20-40% of them will subsequently relapse. Nevertheless, formal follow-up guidelines for recurrence detection have never been advocated. We analyzed the pattern of relapse in 30 patients with intermediate- an...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Elis A,Blickstein D,Klein O,Eliav-Ronen R,Manor Y,Lishner M

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:Hemophagocytic syndrome (HPS) is an unusual acute syndrome presenting with fever, hepatosplenomegaly, and cytopenias. The hallmark of HPS is the accumulation of activated macrophages that engulf hematopoietic cells in the reticuloendothelial system. Most cases of HPS in adults are secondary to infection or malignancy,...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Goldschmidt N,Gural A,Kornberg A,Spectre G,Shopen A,Paltiel O

更新日期：2004-08-01 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 present two patients with human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) infection in whom T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma developed, based on pathologic diagnosis, immunophenotyping, and T-cell receptor gene rearrangement. Both cases were positive for human immunodeficiency virus-1 by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and imm...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Lust JA,Banks PM,Hooper WC,Paya CV,Kueck BD,Hanson GA,Ritch PS,Woloschak GE

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00