Triclonal gammopathy (IgA kappa, IgG kappa, and IgM kappa) in a patient with plasmacytoid lymphoma derived from a monoclonal origin.

abstract：:By virtue of their religious principles, Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs) generally object to receiving blood products, raising numerous ethical, legal, and medical challenges for providers who care for these patients, especially in the emergent setting. In this review, we discuss several areas relevant to the care of JWs, i...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Scharman CD,Burger D,Shatzel JJ,Kim E,DeLoughery TG

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the presentation and course of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and amyloidosis. Mayo databases were interrogated for patients who carried a diagnosis of amyloidosis and CLL evaluated at Mayo Clinic, Rochester from January 1974 to October 2012. Charts were abstracted and data analyzed. Of th...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Kourelis TV,Gertz M,Zent C,Lacy M,Kyle R,Kapoor P,Zeldenrust S,Buadi F,Witzig T,Hayman S,Lust J,Russell S,Lin Y,Rajkumar VS,Kumar S,Leung N,Dingli D,Dispenzieri A

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The soluble form of Fas (sFas) can block apoptosis induced by the Fas ligand in vitro. A recent report demonstrated that mice injected with sFas displayed autoimmune features. Therefore, an elevated serum concentration of sFas may be associated with lymphoproliferation and autoimmune diseases. We measured the serum co...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Yufu Y,Choi I,Hirase N,Tokoro A,Noguchi Y,Goto T,Uike N,Kozuru M

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a family with a dominantly transmitted syndrome resembling Fanconi's anemia and spanning two generations. This syndrome was characterized by an ill-defined hematologic stem cell disorder, immune dysfunction, poor dentition, hyperpigmented skin, warts, and multiple second trimester spontaneous abortions and i...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Alter CL,Levine PH,Bennett J,Kessler C,Rick M,Washburn RG,Gallin JI,Miller RW,Auerbach AD

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied telomere length in the bone marrow cells or the granulocyte and lymphocyte cell fractions of 54 patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) by Southern blot hybridization using the (TTAGGG)4 probe. The average telomere length expressed as the peak telomere repeat array (TRA) in the peripheral blood, ...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Boultwood J,Fidler C,Kusec R,Rack K,Elliott PJ,Atoyebi O,Chapman R,Oscier DG,Wainscoat JS

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study demonstrates the quantitative characteristics of the first patient-reported outcome (PRO) tool developed for patients with nontransfusion-dependent β-thalassemia (NTDT), the NTDT-PRO© . A multicenter validation study was performed over 24 weeks, involving 48 patients from Italy, Lebanon, Greece, and Thailan...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Taher A,Cappellini MD,Viprakasit V,Sutcharitchan P,Mahmoud D,Laadem A,Khan A,Gwaltney C,Harding G,Attie K,Zhang X,Zou J,Pariseau J,Henry Hu X,Kattamis A

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune thrombocytopenia is frequently encountered in medical practice and is generally accepted as being caused by an IgG antibody. The capability of detecting platelet-bound IgG as a diagnostic and therapeutic modality is critical for appropriate care and management of patients with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpur...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Tate DY,Carlton GT,Nesbit ME,White JG,Krivit W,Sorenson RL

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 74-year old woman with Ph1-negative chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) and heterozygous for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) was studied. Both A and B types of G6PD were found in skin. In contrast, white blood cells and platelets showed only a single G6PD type A. These results provide further evidence that P...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Kaye FJ,Najfeld V,Singer J,Cuttner J,Fialkow PJ

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variability in DNA content detected was found with image cytometry, in immature bone marrow cells from 13 healthy donors (median age 31 yr). The mean coefficient of variation (C.V.) of the DNA content was found to be significantly (P = 0.0002) higher in immature blasts and promyelocytes than in mature granulocytes, ...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Widell S,Auer G,Hast R,Reizenstein P

更新日期：1993-08-01 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：:We aimed to comprehensively study sex differences in disease and patients' characteristics, treatment and outcomes in patients with follicular lymphoma (FL) in the United States (USA) utilizing the National LymphoCare Study registry (2004-2014). Among evaluable males (n = 1277) and females (n = 1375) with FL, females ...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Nabhan C,Zhou X,Day BM,Dawson K,Zelenetz AD,Friedberg JW,Cerhan JR,Link BK,Flowers CR

更新日期：2016-08-01 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：:Chronic transfusion therapy is the treatment of choice for preventing stroke recurrence in children with sickle cell disease (SCD). The majority of children affected by this devastating complication live in the developing world where access to regular blood transfusions may be impractical. Since 2000, in the absence o...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Ali SB,Moosang M,King L,Knight-Madden J,Reid M

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Philadelphia chromosome (Ph1) positive, or "adult-type," chronic granulocytic leukemia (CGL) differs in many clinical and laboratory aspects from PH1-negative, or "juvenile," CGL. Because of these differences, the disorders have been considered two distinct disease entities. We present a child with Ph1-positive CGL wh...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Gay JC,Dessypris EN,Roloff JS,Lukens JN

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of primary plasma cell leukemia (pPCL) has been made by quantifying circulating plasma cells (cPCs) morphologically on a peripheral blood (PB) smear. However, this technique is not sufficiently sensitive. Multiparametric flow cytometry (MFC) provides a readily available and highly sensitive method to ide...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Evans LA,Jevremovic D,Nandakumar B,Dispenzieri A,Buadi FK,Dingli D,Lacy MQ,Hayman SR,Kapoor P,Leung N,Fonder A,Hobbs M,Hwa YL,Muchtar E,Warsame R,Kourelis TV,Go R,Russell S,Lust JA,Lin Y,Siddiqui M,Kyle RA,Ger

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Splenectomy is a time-honoured well established approach for patients with steroid-resistant immune thrombocytopenia (ITP). However, due to the more recent availability of therapeutic options alternative to splenectomy, such as rituximab and agonists of the thrombopoietin-receptor, the choice of second-line therapy is...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Palandri F,Polverelli N,Catani L,Sollazzo D,Romano M,Levorato M,Vianelli N

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotide sequence analysis of the 5' beta-globin gene flanking region has been carried out for numerous homozygous beta-thalassemia patients with different mutations and of various ethnic backgrounds. Four different rearrangements were found associated with numerous beta-thalassemia mutations. The (AT)X(T)Y repeat m...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Dimovski AJ,Adekile AD,Divoky V,Baysal E,Huisman TH

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), 34 out of 35 patients (97%) had cytochemically abnormal polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN). Some interesting regularity was noted in the appearance of cytochemical abnormalities of the PMNs. When peroxidase (PO) activity was low, both alkaline phosphatase (AP) and ch...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Suda T,Onai T,Maekawa T

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Older patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) have poor outcomes, with median durations of complete remission lasting less than 1 year. Increased toxicity in older patients limits the delivery of standard consolidation therapies, such as allogeneic stem cell transplant or high-dose cytarabine. Azacitidine, a nucleo...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Griffin PT,Komrokji RS,De Castro CM,Rizzieri DA,Melchert M,List AF,Lancet JE

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:Quinine-induced immune thrombocytopenia with hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) is a recently defined clinical entity. In this paper we have attempted to characterize the natural history and laboratory abnormalities typical of quinine-induced immune thrombocytopenia associated with hemolytic uremic syndrome in nine patie...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Gottschall JL,Neahring B,McFarland JG,Wu GG,Weitekamp LA,Aster RH

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a common cause of morbidity and mortality among patients with multiple myeloma (MM). The International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG) developed guidelines recommending primary thromboprophylaxis, in those identified at high-risk of VTE by the presence of risk factors. The National Compreh...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Sanfilippo KM,Luo S,Wang TF,Fiala M,Schoen M,Wildes TM,Mikhael J,Kuderer NM,Calverley DC,Keller J,Thomas T,Carson KR,Gage BF

更新日期：2019-11-01 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 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 relative importance of the resolution level of HLA typing has not been fully defined for related donor transplantation. To address this question, we retrospectively evaluated patients who underwent a first related hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) from 2000 to 2011 from an HLA high-resolution matched ...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Fuji S,Kanda J,Kato S,Ikegame K,Morishima S,Miyamoto T,Hidaka M,Kubo K,Miyamura K,Tsudo M,Kobayashi H,Maesako Y,Eto T,Adachi S,Ichinohe T,Atsuta Y,Kanda Y,HLA Working Group of the Japan Society for Hematopoietic Cell Tr

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eosinophilia associated with solid tumors is an infrequent occurrence. The pathogenesis of tumor-associated eosinophilia is not well understood. Interleukin-5 (IL-5) is a cytokine that has been implicated in the development of eosinophilia in mice and humans. However, there is little data associating IL-5 production w...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Pandit R,Scholnik A,Wulfekuhler L,Dimitrov N

更新日期：2007-03-01 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：:During 1971-1988, 194 adults with de novo acute myeloid leukemia (AML) received initial therapy at the University of Minnesota with an anthracycline-based regimen. Seventy-two of the 194 required further chemotherapy and received a second cycle of the same or similar therapy; 63 of these 72 were evaluable. For each ma...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Hammerschmidt DE,Crea MT

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chuvash polycythemia results from a homozygous 598C>T mutation in exon 3 of the von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) gene. This disrupts the normoxia pathway for degrading hypoxia inducible factor (HIF)-1alpha and HIF-2alpha causing altered expression of HIF-1 and HIF-2 inducible genes. As hypoxia induces expression of pro-inflamm...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Niu X,Miasnikova GY,Sergueeva AI,Polyakova LA,Okhotin DJ,Tuktanov NV,Nouraie M,Ammosova T,Nekhai S,Gordeuk VR

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several syndromes characterized by striking eosinophilia may be complicated by thrombosis. The experiments described indicate that, paradoxically, eosinophils and certain of their constituents inhibit the activation of Hageman factor (HF, factor XII). In earlier studies, suspensions of mixed types of granulocytes, oth...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Ratnoff OD,Gleich GJ,Shurin SB,Kazura J,Everson B,Embury P

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00