Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation of chronic myeloid leukemia from an HLA-matched unrelated donor with the beta-thalassemic trait.

abstract：:Hemoglobin (Hb) E is the commonest beta-globin variant in Thailand. Other uncommon variants have been rarely reported. We performed direct DNA sequencing of the entire beta-globin gene in cases showing unidentified bands by isolectric focusing electrophoresis or high-performance liquid chromatography. Six different be...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Uaprasert N,Rojnuckarin P,Settapiboon R,Amornsiriwat S,Sutcharitchan P

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The percentage of myeloperoxidase (MPO)-positive blast cells is a simple and highly significant prognostic factor in AML patients. It has been reported that the high MPO group (MPO-H), in which >50% of blasts are MPO activity positive, is associated with favorable karyotypes, while the low MPO group (≤50% of blasts ar...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Tominaga-Sato S,Tsushima H,Ando K,Itonaga H,Imaizumi Y,Imanishi D,Iwanaga M,Taguchi J,Fukushima T,Yoshida S,Hata T,Moriuchi Y,Kuriyama K,Mano H,Tomonaga M,Miyazaki Y

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of cell surface glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) on the inactivation of factor VIIa-tissue factor activity by antithrombin III (ATIII) on a human bladder carcinoma (J82) cell line and an ovarian carcinoma (OC-2008) cell line, two tumor cell lines which constitutively synthesize and express high lev...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Hamamoto T,Kisiel W

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is an autoimmune disorder characterised by isolated thrombocytopenia (peripheral blood platelet count <100 × 10(9)/L) in the absence of other causes or disorders that may be associated with thrombocytopenia. The upfront treatment in newly diagnosed ITP patients is steroids; howeve...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Tripathi AK,Shukla A,Mishra S,Yadav YS,Yadav DK

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of effective antigen-specific T-cell immunity to pathogens without the initiation of autoimmunity has evolved as a sophisticated and highly balanced immunoregulatory mechanism. This mechanism assures the generation of antigen-specific effector cells as well as the induction and maintenance of antigen-spe...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Kubach J,Becker C,Schmitt E,Steinbrink K,Huter E,Tuettenberg A,Jonuleit H

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elderly/comorbid patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) require low-toxicity treatments. Internationally, the standard treatment for such patients is chlorambucil and an anti-CD20 therapy; however, chlorambucil is not approved in Japan. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the safety, efficacy and ph...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Hatake K,Ogura M,Takada K,Taniwaki M,Zhang F,Fujita T,Ando K

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have suggested that an increase in mitochondrial reactive oxygen species may cause organ damage in patients with light-chain (AL) amyloidosis; however, this damage can be decreased by antioxidant-agent treatment. Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), the major natural catechin in green tea, has potent anti...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Meshitsuka S,Shingaki S,Hotta M,Goto M,Kobayashi M,Ukawa Y,Sagesaka YM,Wada Y,Nojima M,Suzuki K

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distinction between RAEB, RAEB-T and AML M6a is difficult when erythroblasts in the bone marrow (BM) exceed 50%. We analyzed 19 children (2 RAEB, 13 RAEB-T and 4 AML M6a) enrolled in a prospective pathological central review in Japan and divided them into two groups according to the myeloblasts percentage among no...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Honda Y,Manabe A,Tsuchida M,Zaike Y,Masunaga A,Inoue M,Kobayashi R,Ohtsuka Y,Kikuchi A,Nakahata T,From the MDS Committee, the Japanese Society of Pediatric Hematology.

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate differences in the antigenic structure of factor VIII (FVIII) among mammals, we evaluated cross-reactivities of well-defined antihuman FVIII antibodies with canine and other mammalian FVIII proteins. Monoclonal antibodies against human FVIII recognizing the A1 domain in the heavy chain and the A3 domain i...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Ori J,Tanaka I,Kubota Y,Shima M,Matsumoto T,Yoshida K,Sakurai Y,Yoshioka A

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe congenital neutropenia (SCN) is characterized by a maturation arrest of myeloid progenitor cells at the stage of promyelocytes in bone marrow and low levels of mature neutrophils in peripheral blood. To date, little is known regarding the underlying pathomechanism of SCN. A defective response of neutrophil prec...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Kasper B,Tidow N,Welte K

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paradox of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) which present with pancytopenias despite cellular bone marrows (BM) was investigated by conducting detailed studies of proliferation and apoptosis in 89 MDS patients. Our results demonstrated a rapid rate of both proliferation as well as apoptosis. Levels of three cytokin...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Raza A,Mundle S,Shetty V,Alvi S,Chopra H,Span L,Parcharidou A,Dar S,Venugopal P,Borok R,Gezer S,Showel J,Loew J,Robin E,Rifkin S,Alston D,Hernandez B,Shah R,Kaizer H,Gregory S

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a patient with Philadelphia chromosome (Ph)-positive chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) who developed an extramedullary blast crisis in the central nervous system (CNS) and then a subcutaneous tumor of the neck during treatment with imatinib mesylate. Administered 400 mg of imatinib mesylate after the diag...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Matsuda M,Morita Y,Shimada T,Miyatake J,Hirase C,Tanaka M,Tatsumi Y,Maeda Y,Kanamaru A

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose an algorithm based on a slightly modified version of MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) score (i.e., mutational status of IgVH, LDH, presence of high-risk FISH abnormalities), β2-microglobulin and separation of clinical monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis (cMBL) from chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) to predict...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Molica S,Giannarelli D,Levato L,Mirabelli R,Gentile M,Lentini M,Morabito F

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunological abnormalities (IA) are frequently observed in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Although there have been a number of analyses of the prognostic factors, there have been few studies, if any, to determine whether IA affects prognosis. We investigated the prognosis of 153 MDS patients with or w...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Okamoto T,Okada M,Mori A,Saheki K,Takatsuka H,Wada H,Tamura A,Fujimori Y,Takemoto Y,Kanamaru A,Kakishita E

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of mutations in PRF1, UNC13D, STX11 and STXBP2 genes in homozygosis or compound heterozygosis results in immune deregulation. Most such cases lead to clinical manifestations of haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH). In the present study, we analyzed degranulation and cytotoxicity in a pediatric patien...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Viñas-Giménez L,Donadeu L,Alsina L,Rincón R,de la Campa EÁ,Esteve-Sole A,Català A,Colobran R,de la Cruz X,Sayós J,Martínez-Gallo M

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The causes of thrombosis in antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) remain unknown, though several hypotheses in regard to hypofibrinolysis have been proposed. To clarify the mechanism, we measured plasma levels of thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFI) in APS patients. Both the TAFI antigen (TAFI:Ag) level measur...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Ieko M,Yoshida M,Naito S,Nakabayashi T,Kanazawa K,Mizukami K,Mukai M,Atsumi T,Koike T

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurological complications in thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) are associated with poor prognosis and/or permanent damage. We report a young woman in whom the diagnosis of TTP was difficult because cardinal manifestations were absent at presentation. The patient relapsed, showing severe and dramatic neurologi...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Rabkin Y,Fradin Z,Zeidman A,Schwartz A,Cohen A,Mittelman M

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac dysfunction due to transfusional iron overload is one of the most critical complications for patients with transfusion-dependent hematological disorders. Clinical parameters such as total red blood cell (RBC) transfusion units and serum ferritin level are usually considered as indicators for initiation of iron...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Sakuta J,Ito Y,Kimura Y,Park J,Tokuuye K,Ohyashiki K

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) represent a group of potentially acute myeloid leukemic disorders. There exists a delicate balance between increased apoptosis and proliferation of the leukemic hematopoietic stem cell that permits many patients to survive for years. When the balance shifts towards proliferation AML...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Bennett JM,Kouides PA,Forman SJ

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the crucial aid that newly developed target therapies are providing to chemotherapy and stem cell transplant, the cure for many hematological malignancies is still an unmet need. Although available therapies are able to induce an effective debulking of the tumor, most of the time, an insidious minimal residual...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Bocchia M,Defina M,Aprile L,Sicuranza A

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a novel method for the efficient production of hematopoietic progenitors from human embryonic stem cells (hESC) via coculture with murine fetal liver-derived stromal cells, in which embryonic hematopoiesis dramatically expands at midgestation. We generated various hematopoietic progenitors in coculture, and...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Ma F,Wang D,Hanada S,Ebihara Y,Kawasaki H,Zaike Y,Heike T,Nakahata T,Tsuji K

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Waldenström macroglobulinemia is a lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma characterized by production of the immunoglobulin M (IgM) monoclonal protein. Commonly involved sites are the bone marrow, lymph nodes, and spleen. Lymphoplasmacytic infiltration of the central nervous system (CNS), in contrast, is referred to as Bing-Neel ...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Morita K,Yoshimi A,Masuda A,Ichikawa M,Yatomi Y,Kurokawa M

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dasatinib induces lymphocytosis of large granular lymphocytes (LGLs) in a proportion of patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), and is associated with better clinical outcomes. LGLs consist of cytotoxic T lymphocytes and natural killer cells; however, the context and phenotypic/functional features of each ty...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Watanabe N,Takaku T,Takeda K,Shirane S,Toyota T,Koike M,Noguchi M,Hirano T,Fujiwara H,Komatsu N

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognostic significance of Bcl-2, Bcl-6, p53, topoisomerase II, and β-tubulin expression was evaluated in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients treated with cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisolone, and rituximab. Eight-year progression-free survival (PFS, P = 0.006) and overall survival (...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Choi YW,Ahn MS,Choi JH,Lee HW,Kang SY,Jeong SH,Park JS,Han JH,Kim JH,Sheen SS

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We retrospectively evaluated single-institute outcomes of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) with a reduced-intensity conditioning regimen consisting of fludarabine (125 mg/m²) and melphalan (140 mg/m²) for multiple myeloma. Twenty-three patients (median age: 46 years) were evaluated. Stem ...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Kikuchi T,Mori T,Koda Y,Kohashi S,Kato J,Toyama T,Nakazato T,Aisa Y,Shimizu T,Okamoto S

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 29-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with exhaustion, fatigue, and abdominal pain. She reported having received a diagnosis of bulimia nervosa 10 years before. On examination, she had a marked pallor and was severely malnourished. Laboratory analysis revealed a dramatically low hemoglobin level of...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Jost PJ,Stengel SM,Huber W,Sarbia M,Peschel C,Duyster J

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 26-year-old female diagnosed as mycosis fungoides (MF, clinical stage IV) was treated with single-agent chemotherapy, multi-drug chemotherapy and unrelated bone marrow transplantation with reduced-intensity conditioning (engraftment failure), resulting in failure. Unrelated cord blood transplantation (CBT) as second...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Fukushima T,Horio K,Matsuo E,Imanishi D,Yamasaki R,Tsushima H,Imaizumi Y,Ohshima K,Hata T,Yoshida S,Miyazaki Y,Tomonaga M

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We established a simple method of T cell depletion using anti-CD6 monoclonal antibody-conjugated immunomagnetic beads. Preliminary experiments using this method demonstrated that CD3+ T cells could be partially depleted without depleting CD56+ NK cells. A phase I-II clinical study was performed to assess the safety an...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Sao H,Kitaori K,Kasai M,Shimokawa T,Kato C,Yamanishi H,Ueda R,Morishima Y

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-dose melphalan followed by autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (ASCT) is a standard treatment for younger myeloma patients. However, the correlation between its toxicity and renal impairment is not clear. We analyzed this relationship, focusing on estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) as an i...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Tamaki M,Nakasone H,Gomyo A,Hayakawa J,Akahoshi Y,Harada N,Kusuda M,Ishihara Y,Kawamura K,Tanihara A,Sato M,Terasako-Saito K,Kameda K,Wada H,Kikuchi M,Kimura SI,Kako S,Kanda Y

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imatinib mesylate binds to the inactive conformation of BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase, suppressing the Philadelphia chromosome-positive clone in chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). Clinical studies of imatinib have yielded impressive results in the treatment of all phases of CML. With the higher rates of complete cytogeneti...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Borthakur G,Cortes JE

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00