Abnormal platelet count is an independent predictor of mortality in the elderly and is influenced by ethnicity.

abstract：:A prospective neurological and electroencephalographic (EEG) study was performed in sixteen leukemia patients receiving busulfan (BU) and cyclophosphamide before autologous bone marrow transplantation. All patients were given anticonvulsant prophylaxis with a combination of phenobarbital (PB) and clonazepam (CLZ). Neu...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Meloni G,Nasta L,Pinto RM,Spalice A,Raucci U,Iannetti P

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-five adult patients with resistant or early relapsing Hodgkin's disease have been treated with CAV combination chemotherapy (CCNU, melphalan and etoposide). All patients had previously received both MOPP and ABVD regimens (23 patients as primary therapy and two as first salvage). High-energy radiotherapy had be...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Brusamolino E,Castelli G,Pagnucco G,Orlandi E,Malagó D,Lazzarino M,Bernasconi C

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outcome of patients with primary refractory acute myeloid leukemia remains unsatisfactory. We conducted a prospective phase II clinical trial with gemtuzumab ozogamicin (3 mg/m(2) intravenously on day 1), all-trans retinoic acid (45 mg/m(2) orally on days 4-6 and 15 mg/m(2) orally on days 7-28), high-dose cytarabine (...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Hütter-Krönke ML,Benner A,Döhner K,Krauter J,Weber D,Moessner M,Köhne CH,Horst HA,Schmidt-Wolf IG,Rummel M,Götze K,Koller E,Petzer AL,Salwender H,Fiedler W,Kirchen H,Haase D,Kremers S,Theobald M,Matzdorff AC,Ganse

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful expansion of hematopoietic stem cells would benefit the use of hematopoietic stem cell transplants in the clinic. Several angiopoietin-like proteins, including angiopoietin-like 7, can support the activity of hematopoietic stem cells. However, effects of ANGPTL7 on human hematopoietic stem cells and the dow...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Xiao Y,Jiang Z,Li Y,Ye W,Jia B,Zhang M,Xu Y,Wu D,Lai L,Chen Y,Chang Y,Huang X,Liu H,Qing G,Liu P,Li Y,Xu B,Zhong M,Yao Y,Pei D,Li P

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multipotent stromal cells have immunomodulatory capacities and have been used in transplantation and autoimmune diseases. One of the effects of multipotent stromal cells involves the inhibition of dendritic cell differentiation. Since interleukin-6 and interleukin-10 are known to play a role in inhibiting immature den...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Melief SM,Geutskens SB,Fibbe WE,Roelofs H

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Patients with acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML) with features of myelodysplastic syndrome and abnormalities of megakaryocytopoiesis often have cytogenetic aberrations of 3q21 and 3q26 bands involving the paracentric inversion [inv(3) (q21q26)] or a reciprocal translocation [t(3;3) (q21;q26)]. ...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Martinelli G,Ottaviani E,Buonamici S,Isidori A,Borsaru G,Visani G,Piccaluga PP,Malagola M,Testoni N,Rondoni M,Nucifora G,Tura S,Baccarani M

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distinct expression patterns of pro- and anti-apoptotic proteins may contribute to different prognoses and therapy outcomes in adult versus childhood acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Therefore, we investigated whether expression levels of apoptosis-related proteins CD95, Bcl-2, Bax, Bcl-xL, procaspase-3, XIAP, cIAP-1, an...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Wuchter C,Richter S,Oltersdorf D,Karawajew L,Ludwig WD,Tamm I

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:High levels of erythrocyte destruction in sickle cell anemia (SCA) result in chronic hyperbilirubinemia, with cholelithiasis occurring in a subset of patients. We investigated whether susceptibility to cholelithiasis in SCA was associated with the promoter polymorphism of the 5?-diphosphate-gl...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Chaar V,Kéclard L,Diara JP,Leturdu C,Elion J,Krishnamoorthy R,Clayton J,Romana M

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating stem cells (CSC) are well documented in animals and humans. Though their function in normal conditions remains obscure, autologous CSC seem capable of restoring hemopoiesis after myeloablative treatment. With cell separators CSC may be harvested in adequate number, and collection may be further improved gi...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Majolino I,Scimé R,Indovina A

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute myeloid leukemia is a clonal hematopoietic malignant disease; about 45-50% of cases do not have detectable chromosomal abnormalities. Here, we identified hidden genomic alterations and novel disease-related regions in normal karyotype acute myeloid leukemia/myelodysplastic syndrome samples. DESIGN AND...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Akagi T,Ogawa S,Dugas M,Kawamata N,Yamamoto G,Nannya Y,Sanada M,Miller CW,Yung A,Schnittger S,Haferlach T,Haferlach C,Koeffler HP

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-transfusion hepatitis (PTH) is a major problem in patients with acute leukemias requiring blood products during induction or consolidation therapy. In fact, PTH causes delays of chemotherapy with major violations in the timing of protocols. In order to assess the efficacy and safety of a short course of alpha-int...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Almasio P,Mirto S,Malleo C,Di Marco V,Caronia F,Craxi A

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one leading gram-negative organism associated with nosocomial infections. Bacteremia is life-threatening in the immunocompromised host. Increasing frequency of multi-drug-resistant (MDRPA) strains is concerning. We started a retrospective survey in the pediatric hematology oncology Italian ne...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Caselli D,Cesaro S,Ziino O,Zanazzo G,Manicone R,Livadiotti S,Cellini M,Frenos S,Milano GM,Cappelli B,Licciardello M,Beretta C,Aricò M,Castagnola E,Infection Study Group of the Associazione Italiana Ematologia Oncologia Pediat

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen patients with stage III multiple myeloma (MM) and a median age of 51 years were treated with autografting followed by reduced intensity conditioning allotransplantation (RICT). Nine patients are alive in remission at a median of 30 months after their transplants, one patient is alive in relapse and 6 patients ...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Carella AM,Beltrami G,Corsetti MT,Scalzulli P,Carella AM Jr,Musto P

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia-related genomic changes were analyzed by karyotyping, fluorescence in situ hybridization, and V(H) gene sequencing in a prospective clinical evaluation. The V(H) mutational status correlated with high-risk cytogenetic aberrations while no such relation could be demonstrated for spec...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Méhes G,Kovács G,Kajtár B,Lacza A,Várnai A,Losonczy H,Pajor L

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HTLV-1 infections and their associated diseases are very rare in Italy, as well as in most parts of Europe, occurring prevalently in subjects related to endemic areas. The HTLV-1-associated leukemia/lymphoma, ATLL, is a very aggressive T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma which can be difficult to recognize in non-endemic ar...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Menin C,Bulian P,Filippi F,Buttarello M,Casado C,Lopez-Galindez C,De Rossi A,Chieco-Bianchi L,Del Mistro A

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long-term central venous catheters have improved the quality of care for patients with chronic illnesses, but are complicated by obstructions which can result in delay of treatment or catheter removal. DESIGN AND METHODS:This paper reviews thrombolytic treatment for catheter obstruction. Literature from Med...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Baskin JL,Reiss U,Wilimas JA,Metzger ML,Ribeiro RC,Pui CH,Howard SC

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with hypogammaglobulinemia who do not fulfill all the classical diagnostic criteria for common variable immunodeficiency (reduction of two immunoglobulin isotypes and a reduced response to vaccination) constitute a diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma, because information concerning the clinical and immunologic...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Driessen GJ,Dalm VA,van Hagen PM,Grashoff HA,Hartwig NG,van Rossum AM,Warris A,de Vries E,Barendregt BH,Pico I,Posthumus S,van Zelm MC,van Dongen JJ,van der Burg M

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staining for CD27 and CD201 (endothelial protein C receptor) has been recently suggested as an alternative to stem cell antigen-1 (Sca1) to identify hematopoietic stem cells in inbred mouse strains with low or nil expression of SCA1. However, whether staining for CD27 and CD201 is compatible with low fms-like tyrosine...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Nowlan B,Williams ED,Doran MR,Levesque JP

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) oncogenic fusion proteins, expressed in about 60% of anaplastic large cell lymphomas (ALCL), are tumor-specific molecular targets for such a malignancy. One of the promising ALK-targeted therapeutic options is cancer vaccination. In this study, we investigate w...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Passoni L,Gallo B,Biganzoli E,Stefanoni R,Massimino M,Di Nicola M,Gianni AM,Gambacorti-Passerini C

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral cytopenia has been reported in a number of patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), but the mechanism of bone marrow (BM) failure is unclear. We have examined the BM morphology and cytokinetics of 16 untreated HIV-positive patients whose clinical condition ranged from asymptomatic (stage...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Danova M,Riccardi A,Brugnatelli S,Maserati R,Comolli G,Mazzini G,Castello A,Ascari E,Rondanelli EG

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) can be administered after a peripheral blood stem cell transplantation with the aim of accelerating neutrophil recovery. In a randomized, single-blind study we studied a new administration schedule of G-CSF in this context. ...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Piccirillo N,De Matteis S,Sorà F,d'Onofrio G,Leone G,Sica S

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute myeloid leukemia is the second most common leukemia among United States adults with a median age of 69 years. We investigated recent clinical practices related to treatments and disease outcomes in older patients with acute myeloid leukemia in the United States. DESIGN AND METHODS:In this retrospectiv...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Oran B,Weisdorf DJ

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Double umbilical cord blood transplantation is increasingly applied in the treatment of adult patients with high-risk hematological malignancies and has been associated with improved engraftment as compared to that provided by single unit cord blood transplantation. The mechanism of improved engraftment is, however, s...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Somers JA,Braakman E,van der Holt B,Petersen EJ,Marijt EW,Huisman C,Sintnicolaas K,Oudshoorn M,Groenendijk-Sijnke ME,Brand A,Cornelissen JJ

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Older chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients have poor outcomes with standard treatments and are underrepresented in clinical trials. We retrospectively reviewed outcomes of refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients in two age categories (≥70 and <70 years) treated with single-agent flavopiridol, a drug active i...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Stephens DM,Ruppert AS,Blum K,Jones J,Flynn JM,Johnson AJ,Ji J,Phelps MA,Grever MR,Byrd JC

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-four patients over 60 years of age with new cases of ANLL diagnosed between January, 1980 and December, 1986 were retrospectively evaluated. Twenty-nine (median age 63, range 60-70) received aggressive induction polychemotherapy: 15 achieved CR (52%), 10 were resistant (34.5%) and 4 died during induction (13.5...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Latagliata R,Sgadari C,Pisani F,Falconi M,Spadea A,Vegna ML,Petti MC

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assessment of clinical probability represents an important step in the diagnostic strategy of patients with suspected deep vein thrombosis. The recently derived LEFt clinical prediction rule for pregnant women combines three variables: symptoms in the left leg (L), calf circumference difference of 2 centimeters or...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Righini M,Jobic C,Boehlen F,Broussaud J,Becker F,Jaffrelot M,Blondon M,Guias B,Le Gal G,EDVIGE study group.

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:With the development and refinement of guidance modalities for percutaneous biopsies, many investigators have reported studies supporting the role of guided core needle biopsy in the diagnosis of mediastinal lymphoma. The aims of this report are to evaluate the efficacy of findings at core need...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Zinzani PL,Corneli G,Cancellieri A,Magagnoli M,Lacava N,Gherlinzoni F,Bendandi M,Albertini P,Baruzzi G,Tura S,Boaron M

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Storage pool diseases (SPD) are heterogeneous disorders associated with an abnormal presence of intraplatelet granules, which cause mild to moderate bleeding diathesis. We investigated signaling through tyrosine phosphorylation of proteins occurring in platelets with total or partial absence o...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Arderiu G,Díaz-Ricart M,Domenech P,Escolar G,Ordinas A,Pujol-Moix N

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:We tested the principle of local International Normalized Ratio (INR) calibration using INR calibrator plasmas (PT Calibration Plasma Kit, Behring), two thomboplastin reagents (Neoplastin plus, rabbit brain, Stago, and Recombiplastin, recombinant human tissue factor, Ortho Diagnostics) and the...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Testa S,Morstabilini G,Fattorini A,Galli L,Denti N,D'Angelo A

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic myeloid leukemia is characterized by a reciprocal translocation between chromosomes 9 and 22, creating the fusion gene BCR-ABL. The clinical significance of the type of BCR-ABL transcript in newly diagnosed patients in chronic phase treated with imatinib 400 mg from initial diagnosis remains unknown....

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Lucas CM,Harris RJ,Giannoudis A,Davies A,Knight K,Watmough SJ,Wang L,Clark RE

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00