Secondary T-acute lymphoblastic leukaemia mimicking blast crisis in chronic myeloid leukaemia.

abstract：:Death during the induction phase of chemotherapy remains a common event in patients with aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). In a series of patients with aggressive NHL homogeneously treated with intensive induction chemotherapy [ACVB (doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, vindesine, bleomycin, prednisone) regimen], we ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dumontet C,Mounier N,Munck JN,Bosly A,Morschauser F,Simon D,Marit G,Casasnovas O,Reman O,Molina T,Reyes F,Coiffier B

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a patient with both haemophagocytic syndrome and acute myocarditis probably associated with parvovirus B19 infection. The patient had a marked neutrophilia instead of neutropenia more usually observed in virus-associated haemophagocytic syndrome (VAHS). Endogenous serum concentrations of macrophage colony-...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tsuda H,Maeda Y,Nakagawa K,Nakayama M,Nishimura H,Ishihara A,Miyayama H

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapy for a first episode of venous thromboembolism (VTE) typically includes a vitamin K antagonist, such as warfarin, for 3-6 months at an international normalized ratio (INR) of 2-3. After the cessation of warfarin therapy, unprovoked VTE is associated with a recurrence rate of 5-15% per year. Prolonging initial t...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bauer KA

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have assessed the effects of the diphosphonate, dichloromethylene diphosphonate (Cl2MDP), in 19 patients with hypercalcaemia and increased bone resorption due to myeloma. Cl2MDP (800-3200 mg daily by mouth or 300 mg daily by intravenous infusion) decreased plasma calcium and biochemical indices of increased bone re...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Paterson AD,Kanis JA,Cameron EC,Douglas DL,Beard DJ,Preston FE,Russell RG

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The close association between translocation of the proto-oncogene bcl-2 and follicular lymphomas has been well established in Caucasian patients and the de-regulation of bcl-2 has been implicated in follicular lymphomagenesis. Similar molecular structural alterations have also been detected in diffuse lymphomas with a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Loke SL,Pittaluga S,Srivastava G,Raffeld M,Ho FC

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epistaxis is a common problem amongst anti-coagulated patients. Application of first-aid principles can control the majority of bleeds. In our sample of 60 patients attending the anticoagulant clinic, 40% were unable to think of a single measure that would be helpful in controlling a nose bleed. 6 weeks after being gi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lavy J

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Transplant-related mortality (TRM) remains a major problem in older patients undergoing allogeneic haemopoietic stem cell transplants (HSCTs). We have therefore explored a less intensive conditioning in 33 patients with a median age of 52 years (range 43-60) transplanted from human leucocyte antigen (HLA)-id...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Raiola AM,Van Lint MT,Lamparelli T,Gualandi F,Mordini N,Berisso G,Bregante S,Frassoni F,Sessarego M,Fugazza G,Di Stefano F,Pitto A,Bacigalupo A

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P-glycoprotein (Pgp) expression, which is associated with the multi-drug resistance (MDR) phenotype, has been reported to be a useful predictor of treatment outcome in acute leukaemia. We have examined the expression of Pgp on acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) cells in 54 newly diagnosed patients, using a novel streptavid...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Wood P,Burgess R,MacGregor A,Yin JA

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following a recent court judgment, legal and moral issues surrounding consent have been thrown into the spotlight. Elizabeth Larner, Solicitor, and Rachel Carter, Partner, of Wollen Michelmore LLP, look at the issues surrounding consent, including where problems arise in the fields of clinical negligence and non-accid...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Larner E,Carter R

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the use of a new conditioning regimen followed by allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) for treating children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) after relapse within 6 months of the completion of therapy. One hundred and sixteen children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in second or subs...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bordigoni P,Esperou H,Souillet G,Pico J,Michel G,Lacour B,Reiffers J,Sadoun A,Rohrlich P,Jouet JP,Milpied N,Lutz P,Plouvier E,Cornu G,Vannier JP,Gandemer V,Rubie H,Gratecos N,Leverger G,Stephan JL,Boutard P,Vern

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of anaemia and reticulocytosis by arylhydrazines was influenced by substituents on the benzene ring of phenylhydrazine. Arylhydrazines with ortho substituents, which would hinder the binding by haemoglobin of a ligand derived from the arylhydrazine, resulted in the least anaemia and reticulocytosis. Thes...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Itano HA,Hosokawa K,Hirota K

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections continue to be a serious problem for severely neutropenic oncology and haematopoietic progenitor cell (HPC) transplant patients. Although it is now possible to collect much larger numbers of neutrophils (PMNs) from donors stimulated with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor + corticosteroids, the efficacy ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Strauss RG

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapy with imatinib mesylate is limited by cellular resistance in chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML). Further, the limited availability of matching stem cell donors or an unfavourable risk profile for allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) reduces the number of therapeutic options in a number of patients. To assess...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kreuzer KA,Klühs C,Baskaynak G,Movassaghi K,Dörken B,le Coutre P

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human monocytes contain a series of alpha-naphthyl acetate (alpha NA) esterases which are not present in other blood cells and which can be specifically inhibited by bis(4-nitrophenyl)-phosphate (BNPP). This inhibitor is non-toxic at the concentration used and thus enabled studies on the possible significance of this ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Oertel J,Hagner G,Kastner M,Huhn D

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, quiescent bone marrow-derived CD34+ erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E) were found to be resistant to the inhibitory effects of tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha and -beta as well as interferon (IFN)-alpha, -beta and -gamma, in contrast to those stimulated by a combination of erytrhropoietin (Epo) pl...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ratajczak J,Kucia M,Reca R,Zhang J,Machalinski B,Ratajczak MZ

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minor histocompatibility antigens (mHAs) are major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-associated peptides, which trigger T-cell responses that mediate graft versus host disease (GVHD) and graft versus leukaemia effects. We recently identified a new mHA epitope, termed ACC-1, which is presented by HLA-A*2402 and encoded ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Nishida T,Akatsuka Y,Morishima Y,Hamajima N,Tsujimura K,Kuzushima K,Kodera Y,Takahashi T

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophils are amongst the first immune cells to arrive at sites of infection and play an important role as the host's first line of defence against invading pathogens. Defects of neutrophil number or function are usually recognized clinically by recurrent infections that often are life-threatening. Over the last few...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bouma G,Ancliff PJ,Thrasher AJ,Burns SO

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was hypothesized that contact between chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) B-cells and marrow stromal cells impact both cell types. To test this hypothesis, we utilized a long-term primary culture system from bone biopsies that reliably generates a mesenchymal stem cell (MSC). Co-culture of MSC with CLL B-cells prot...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ding W,Nowakowski GS,Knox TR,Boysen JC,Maas ML,Schwager SM,Wu W,Wellik LE,Dietz AB,Ghosh AK,Secreto CR,Medina KL,Shanafelt TD,Zent CS,Call TG,Kay NE

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with acute immune haemolytic anaemia caused by diclofenac are described. Both patients had developed IgG drug-independent autoantibodies and drug-dependent antibodies. The drug-dependent antibodies in one patient reacted with red blood cells (RBC) only in the presence of urine from patients receiving dicl...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Salama A,Göttsche B,Mueller-Eckhardt C

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-10 (IL-10) is one of the cytokines implicated in the pathogenesis of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) in which it acts as auto/paracrine growth factor for lymphoma growth. T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) is a heterogeneous disease, the biological basis of which is not fully understood. Some evidence...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lee JJ,Kim DH,Lee NY,Sohn SK,Kim JG,Kim HJ,Do YR,Park YH

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet function was investigated in three patients with the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. Platelet count, morphology and size distribution was normal in all patients. Platelet turnover was normal. Electron microscopy did not reveal any ultrastructural abnormality. Template bleeding times were normal and prolonged after aspi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Rivard GE,Izadi P,Lazerson J,McLaren JD,Parker C,Fish CH

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simultaneous evaluation of coagulation and fibrinolysis facilitates an overall understanding of normal and pathological haemostasis. We established an assay for assessing clot formation and fibrinolysis simultaneously using clot waveform analysis by the trigger of a mixture of activated partial thromboplastin time rea...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Nogami K,Matsumoto T,Sasai K,Ogiwara K,Arai N,Shima M

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we describe the placental transport of [3H]vitamin K1 in pregnant rats during the first 24 h after the oral administration of the vitamin. Vitamin K1 in the fetal livers ranged from 0.13% (3 h) to 2% (24 h) of the values found in the corresponding maternal livers. In spite of the low placental transfer o...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hamulyák K,de Boer-van den Berg MA,Thijssen HH,Hemker HC,Vermeer C

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment with 75 microg/kg/d intravenous (i.v.) anti-D was compared with 50 microg/kg/d in a prospective randomized study of 27 RhD-positive, human immunodeficiency virus-negative, adult, acute, non-splenectomized patients with immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) and platelet counts < or = 30 x 109/l. The higher do...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Newman GC,Novoa MV,Fodero EM,Lesser ML,Woloski BM,Bussel JB

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent lymphocytosis is usually associated with a malignant lymphoproliferative disease (MLPD). We report six female patients presenting a chronic, moderate lymphocytosis of 2-16 years duration with atypical binucleated lymphocytes on peripheral blood smears. Further investigation showed a polyclonal increase in s...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Troussard X,Valensi F,Debert C,Maynadie M,Schillinger F,Bonnet P,Macintyre EA,Flandrin G

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AML1/RUNX1, which encodes a transcription factor essential for definitive haematopoiesis, is a frequent target of leukaemia-associated chromosome translocations. Point mutations of this gene have also recently been associated with leukaemia and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). To further define the frequency and biolog...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Nakao M,Horiike S,Fukushima-Nakase Y,Nishimura M,Fujita Y,Taniwaki M,Okuda T

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary hypertension (PH) can complicate myelofibrosis with myeloid metaplasia (MMM), may arise in the absence of evidence for thromboembolic disease and carries a grim prognosis. Four patients with MMM and severe symptomatic PH were treated with whole-lung external beam radiotherapy in a single fraction of 100 cGy....

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Steensma DP,Hook CC,Stafford SL,Tefferi A

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FOXP2 mutation causes a severe inherited speech and language defect, while the related transcription factors FOXP1, FOXP3 and FOXP4 are implicated in cancer. FOXP2 mRNA and protein expression were characterised in normal human tissues, haematological cell lines and multiple myeloma (MM) patients' samples. FOXP2 mRNA a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Campbell AJ,Lyne L,Brown PJ,Launchbury RJ,Bignone P,Chi J,Roncador G,Lawrie CH,Gatter KC,Kusec R,Banham AH

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow (BM) and peripheral blood (PB) involvement in 10 patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) was analysed by a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-mediated RNase protection assay. The complementarity determining regions (CDR)-III of all 10 MCLs examined was amplified efficiently with consensus V(H) and J(H) prime...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kurokawa T,Kinoshita T,Murate T,Nagasaka T,Kagami Y,Ogura M,Nakamura S,Seto M,Hotta T,Saito H

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) remains a significant complication in patients undergoing allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) using a reduced intensity conditioning regimen. Although T-cell depletion (TCD) reduces the risk of GVHD after a myeloablative conditioning regimen, it is associated with an increased r...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Craddock C,Bardy P,Kreiter S,Johnston R,Apperley J,Marks D,Huber C,Kolbe K,Goulding R,Lawler M,Goldman J,Hughes T,Derigs G

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00