Immunologic thrombocytopenic purpura as presenting symptom of hepatitis C infection.

abstract：DISEASE OVERVIEW:Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is an uncommon B-cell lymphoid malignancy affecting 8500 new patients annually and representing approximately 10.2% of all lymphomas in the United States. DIAGNOSIS:HL is composed of two distinct disease entities: classical HL and nodular lymphocyte predominant HL. Nodular sclero...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Ansell SM

更新日期：2018-05-01 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：:Immunologic studies were performed on mononuclear cells from ten chronically transfused children with sickle cell disease, and the results were compared with those from five other groups: 21 sickle cell patients who were not receiving regular transfusions, 6 chronically transfused children with other forms of refracto...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Wang W,Herrod H,Presbury G,Wilimas J

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A discordance between p53 protein overexpression and the presence of mutations in the gene has been observed in many types of tumors, including human lymphomas. To probe this finding, we have studied a large series of 94 lymphomas of different pathologic types and histologic differentiation. Analyzing exons 5-9, we ha...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Martinez-Delgado B,Robledo M,Arranz E,Infantes F,Echezarreta G,Marcos B,Sanz C,Rivas C,Benitez J

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Muir-Torre syndrome (MTS) is defined as the concurrent or sequential discovery of at least one sebaceous gland tumor and a minimum of one internal malignancy. A man with Hodgkin's lymphoma who subsequently developed an ocular sebaceous carcinoma in situ is described and the world literature of patients with the MT...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Cohen PR

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide-pulsed dendritic cells can stimulate T cells showing specific cytotoxicity in chronic myelogenous leukemia. We tried to induce a specific cytotoxic T-cell response stimulated by RNA-pulsed dendritic cells in acute myelogenous leukemia. The total RNA of WEHI-3BD+, a myelomonocytic leukemia cell line derived fro...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Jung CW,Kwon JH,Seol JG,Park WH,Hyun JM,Kim ES,Kim ST,Lee SJ,Kim BK,Lee YY

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquired pure megakaryocytic aplasia is a rare disorder defined by severe thrombocytopenia with no other hematologic abnormalities and absent, or severely decreased marrow megakaryocytes. The etiology may be immune suppression of megakaryocyte development. Two patients are described who both responded rapidly to a com...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Leach JW,Hussein KK,George JN

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) is associated with administration of all plasma containing blood products. We present a 14-year-old adolescent diagnosed with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura who developed acute respiratory insufficiency compatible with TRALI within 5 hr following intravenous anti-D. F...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Berger-Achituv S,Ellis MH,Curtis BR,Wolach B

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serum free light chain (FLC) assay quantitates free immunoglobulin kappa and lambda light chains, which has prognostic value in plasma cell dyscrasias. However, there is limited data on serum FLC in lymphoid malignancies. We analyzed the association of pretreatment FLC with event-free survival (EFS) and overall su...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Thompson CA,Maurer MJ,Cerhan JR,Katzmann JA,Ansell SM,Habermann TM,Macon WR,Weiner GJ,Link BK,Witzig TE

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a female patient with T-gamma LGL leukemia, who was followed for the last 20 years. Over these years she developed several autoimmune disorders, including Sjögren's syndrome, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, premature ovarian failure (compatible with type II autoimmune polyglandular syndrome), amegakaryocytic throm...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Ergas D,Tsimanis A,Shtalrid M,Duskin C,Berrebi A

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative changes of hemostatic molecular markers were studied in patients with nephrotic syndrome. The plasma levels of fibrinopeptide A (FPA), thrombin-antithrombin III complex (TAT), products of thrombin activation, and fragment F1 + 2 (F1 + 2), a product of prothrombin activation, were measured by enzyme immuno...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Chen TY,Huang CC,Tsao CJ

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To better assess the efficacy and safety of rituximab in adults' warm antibody autoimmune hemolytic anemia (wAIHA), we conducted a retrospective study including 27 adults (mean age 49.7 +/- 21 years) with either primary (n = 17) or secondary (n = 10) wAIHA. On average, the patients received 2.1 +/- 1.4 treatment lines...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Bussone G,Ribeiro E,Dechartres A,Viallard JF,Bonnotte B,Fain O,Godeau B,Michel M

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:Using an in vitro system to evaluate the simultaneous use of two drugs, we previously have confirmed the synergism of vincristine and prednisolone cytotoxicity against lymphoid cells. Experiments were now carried out to determine whether other steroid hormones can be substituted for prednisolone. Partial or complete p...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Rosner F,Hirshaut Y,Grünwald HW,Deutsch S

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 15 patients with essential thrombocythemia (ET) before treatment and after normalization of platelet count by anagrelide. Significantly increased plasma levels of PDGF, TGFbeta, and bFGF were found. Patients with mild reticulin fibrosis in bone marrow had higher PDGF levels. During treatment, plasma TGFbeta...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Lev PR,Marta RF,Vassallu P,Molinas FC

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia is an uncommon but important cause of thrombocytopenia in infants. Because of the severity of the thrombocytopenia, some of these infants will have intracranial hemorrhage with resultant long-term disability. Obstetricians and neonatologists have recommended delivery by caesarean s...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Burrows RF,Caco CC,Kelton JG

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular basis of triosephosphate isomerase (TPI) deficiency was studied in 3 patients from three separate families. In all 3 patients, genomic DNA directly sequenced after amplification by the polymerase chain reaction exhibited the point mutation TPI315C amino acid 104 Glu-->Asp. Although other mutations known ...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Schneider A,Westwood B,Yim C,Prchal J,Berkow R,Labotka R,Warrier R,Beutler E

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sickle cell disease is a single amino acid molecular disorder of hemoglobin leading to its pathological polymerization, red cell rigidity that causes poor microvascular blood flow, with consequent tissue ischemia and infarction. The manifestations of this disease are protean.Among them, leg ulcers represent a particul...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Minniti CP,Eckman J,Sebastiani P,Steinberg MH,Ballas SK

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-one patients with polycythemia vera (PV) according to the PVSG criteria were analysed retrospectively from January 1960 to March 1996. There were 23 male and 18 female patients with a median follow-up of 66.5 months (3-431 months). Median age was 62 (range: 37-85). The median hemoglobin level at diagnosis was 18...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Chim CS,Kwong YL,Chan PT,Liang R

更新日期：1997-09-01 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：:Most reports of prognosis and therapy in diffuse small non-cleaved cell lymphoma (DSNCL), an aggressive high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) which appears to be of two histopathologic subtypes, have included predominantly a pediatric population and very few adults. We studied 20 newly diagnosed, previously untreate...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Morrison VA,Frizzera G,Arthur DC,Ogle KM,Hurd DD,Bloomfield CD,Peterson BA

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory T-cells (Tregs) are increased in chronic lymphocytic leukemia(CLL) and correlates with clinical and biological features of active/progressive disease. However, little is known about their ability to predict the time to first treatment (TFT). We evaluated 75 patients with Rai stage 0 CLL, in whom the absolut...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： D'Arena G,D'Auria F,Simeon V,Laurenti L,Deaglio S,Mansueto G,Del Principe MI,Statuto T,Pietrantuono G,Guariglia R,Innocenti I,Martorelli MC,Villani O,De Feo V,Del Poeta G,Musto P

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements of the iron regulatory hormone hepcidin by various methodologies and laboratories are not harmonized. As a result different numeric results are obtained for the same clinical sample. We investigated whether better agreement between plasma hepcidin methods can be achieved by harmonization. Native plasma po...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Kroot JJ,van Herwaarden AE,Tjalsma H,Jansen RT,Hendriks JC,Swinkels DW

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with MM are at an increased risk for life-threatening bacterial infections, primarily by organisms that require opsonization for interaction with granulocytes. In the present study we used a neutrophil chemiluminescence (CL) assay of opsonization to explore the opsonic activity of MM-Ig for zymosan particles....

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Cheson BD

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two patients with mild hemophilia A (MHA) who developed high titer inhibitor (HTI) following intensive recombinant factor VIII (rFVIII) concentrate replacement for surgery and trauma. Intranasal desmopressin was instituted shortly following immunosuppressive therapy (IST) and activated prothrombin complex ...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Robbins D,Kulkarni R,Gera R,Scott-Emuakpor AB,Bosma K,Penner JA

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection and identification of blood group antibodies in patients is crucial for successful allogeneic blood transfusions. Current methods are highly subjective and rely on red blood cells (RBCs), which simultaneously express many blood group antigens, have a short shelf-life, and carry potential biohazard risks....

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Yazdanbakhsh K,Oyen R,Yu Q,Lee S,Antoniou M,Chaudhuri A,Reid ME

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although karyotypic abnormalities are well documented in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL), few sequential cytogenetic studies have been done. In this study, peripheral blood lymphocytes from fifty-one patients with B-CLL were sequentially karyotyped over a mean interval of 13.8 months (range, one to 51 mont...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Finn WG,Kay NE,Kroft SH,Church S,Peterson LC

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although infectious complications represent a relevant cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with myelofibrosis (MF), little is known about their incidence, outcome and risk factors. We retrospectively evaluated a cohort of 507 MF patients, diagnosed between 1980 and 2014 in five Italian hematology centers, to ...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Polverelli N,Breccia M,Benevolo G,Martino B,Tieghi A,Latagliata R,Sabattini E,Riminucci M,Godio L,Catani L,Nicolosi M,Perricone M,Sollazzo D,Colafigli G,Campana A,Merli F,Vitolo U,Alimena G,Martinelli G,Lewis RE,V

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a murine monoclonal antibody (mAb) specific for the delta chain of hemoglobin (Hb) A2 that does not cross-react with alpha, beta, or gamma chains. The mAb reacted with Hb P-Nilotic (beta delta hybrid), but not with Hb Lepore-Boston (delta beta hybrid), indicating an epitope consisting of positions 11...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

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

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysosomes (granules) of rabbit PMN leukocytes were extracted with either HCl or H2SO4, and the extracts were chromatographed over Sephadex to separate protein constituents. Some of the low molecular weight cationic proteins homogeneous on SDS PAGE (8% and 12.5% gels) were characterized by electrophoretic mobility in a...

journal_title：American journal of hematology

authors： Herion JC,Bucher JR,Penniall R,Walker RI,Baker M,Roberts HR

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00