Are haemochromatosis mutations related to the severity of liver disease in hepatitis C virus infection?

abstract：:A 16-year-old Japanese woman with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) and t(6;9) received peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT). Although chromosomal studies just prior to and following PBSCT showed a normal karyotype, reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) detected the mRNA derived from th...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Nakano H,Shimamoto Y,Suga K,Kobayashi M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rare case of Hodgkin's disease which initially presented with a thyroid tumor in an 18-year-old-man is reported. The tumor involved most of the thyroid gland but was well demarcated, and the border between the tumor and the remnants of the thyroid gland was relatively clear, suggesting secondary Hodgkin's disease in...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Nakamura S,Mizukami Y,Yokoyama K,Saito Y,Ohtake S,Matsuda T

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood lymphocytes from patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), lymphoplasmacytoid lymphoma, centrocytic lymphoma and hairy cell leukemia were studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). In general, SEM revealed rather homogenous cell populations. Most lymphocytes displayed a moderately villous ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Fischer K,Cohnen G,Szaniawski W,Brittinger G

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amylase-producing tumors are mainly adenocarcinomas and, in rare instances, multiple myelomas. We describe here a first case of amylase-producing Bence Jones type myeloma with pancreatitis-like symptoms and the second in a Caucasian patient. The finding of salivary-type hyperamylasemia in a 72-year-old female with a p...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Lopez J,Ulibarrena C,Gonzalez-Porque P,Navas G,Roldan E,Cancelas JA,Perez-Oteyza J,Burgaleta C,García-Laraña J,Sastre JL

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The short-term effect of a domestically produced equine antithymocyte globulin (ATG) was analyzed in 6 patients with acquired severe aplastic anemia (AA). All patients received 5 doses of ATG every other day in a 60-min intravenous infusion. Five peripheral blood immunoregulatory mononuclear cell (MNC) subsets, define...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： López-Karpovitch X,Zarzosa ME,Cárdenas MR,Piedras J

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agranulocytosis developed in a 20-year-old Greek patient with beta-thalassaemia major, 11 weeks after commencing chelation with the oral iron chelator 1,2-dimethyl-3-hydroxypyrid-4-one (L1) and 6 weeks after receiving the drug at a total daily dose of 105 mg/kg. The patient presented with generalised weakness, low-gra...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： al-Refaie FN,Veys PA,Wilkes S,Wonke B,Hoffbrand AV

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasma cortisol levels of 108 children aged 1-16 years with various Hb genotypes (AA, AS and SS) were measured. The mean plasma cortisol levels of both the AS and SS groups (during steady state) fell within the normal range but the mean of the SS group is significantly lower than the AA group. In fact, 9 of the si...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Osifo BO,Lukanmbi FA,Adekile A

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the amount and intracellular distribution of erythroblastic alkaline and acid phosphatase, nonspecific esterase, and N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase in 50 patients with acquired dyserythropoiesis. 19 morphologically normal bone marrow smears served as controls. Alkaline phosphatase was found in all contr...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Woessner S,Lafuente R,Florensa L,Sans-Sabrafen J

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RAS mutations are found in about 25% of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cases. The importance of these changes is unknown. If RAS mutations confer growth advantage to leukemia subclones in which they emerge, substantially more nonconservative than conservative mutations should be found. The incidence of conservative muta...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Aurer I,Labar B,Nemet D,Ajduković R,Bogdanić V,Gale RP

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Immunotherapy using recombinant human interleukin-2 (rIL-2) produces objective responses in a proportion of advanced cancer patients. While early investigators employed intravenous (i.v.) treatment regimens, recent clinical trials applied therapy schedules via subcutaneous (s.c.) injection, mostly in combina...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Schomburg A,Kirchner H,Atzpodien J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deficiency in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) is the most common enzymopathy, and more than 125 different mutations causing G6PD deficiency have been identified. Chronic haemolytic anaemia (CHA) associated with G6PD deficiency is rare, but there is a cluster of mutations causing CHA between amino acids 361-42...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Hundsdoerfer P,Vetter B,Kulozik AE

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of 3 different detergents (Triton X-100, Lubrol WX and Nonidet) on brain thromboplastin was examined and compared with the solubilisation due to deoxycholate. The effect of deoxycholate is superior over that of the other examined detergents. Deoxycholate extracts thromboplastic activity from brain tissue to...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Bayer PM,Deutsch E

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have retrospectively analyzed a series of 19 patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and chronic thrombocytopenia not attributable to hypersplenism or to other causes. Antiplatelet antibodies were present in 81% of cases. Response to prednisone was observed in 6 of 7 patients and 1 of 3 patients responded t...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Hernández F,Blanquer A,Linares M,López A,Tarín F,Cerveró A

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human urinary erythropoietin has been purified to homogeneity. The seven-step procedure yielded a preparation with a potency of 225,000 U/mg protein. SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic analysis of the purified hormone revealed a single protein band with a molecular weight of about 35,000 that migrated with the bio...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Matsushita J,Kawakita M,Shibuya K,Koishihara Y,Sakaguchi M,Takatsuki A

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagocytic activity of leukaemic blasts in 20 adults and 16 children suffering from acute leukaemia was studied in vitro by the use of ferrioxidsaccharate. Most frequently phagocytosing blasts were encountered in myelomonocytic leukaemias. The morphological character of positive blasts resembled often that of monocyto...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Neuwirtová R,Setková O,Housková J,Poch T,Dorazilová V,Donner L

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow fragments from 10 patients with a megaloblastic anaemia due to vitamin B12 or folate deficiency were studied by electron microscopy and electron microscope autoradiography. A proportion of the erythroblasts showed ultrastructural abnormalities. Some of the cells containing autophagic vacuoles, large sidero...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Wickramasinghe SN,Bush V

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor X inhibitors are rare. The few cases documented in the literature have occurred after viral prodromes, in association with cancer, or after exposure to antibiotics. Acquired factor X deficiencies are also rare and their etiology is largely unknown. We report a new case of a factor X inhibitor and review prior c...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Gollard R,Rahman S,Ratnasabapathy R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systematic reviews and meta-analyses have made a major contribution to the evidence-based management of infections in cancer patients. We review the contribution of systematic reviews with regard to antibiotic, antifungal, antiviral and Pneumocystis pneumonia prophylaxis; antibiotic and antifungal treatment of febrile...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Paul M,Gafter-Gvili A,Goldberg E,Yahav D

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual complication of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is reported. The patient, a 79-year-old man, had a long standing history of CLL, that had been complicated by the development of a Guillain-Barré-like syndrome and a peripheral biclonal gammopathy. The biclonal immunoglobulins identified in the serum were I...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Ruiz P,Moezzi M,Chamizo W,Ganjei P,Whitcomb CC,Rey LC

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulation factor VIII inhibitor arising in a patient with autoimmune disease was immunologically analyzed. A 63-year-old man who had been diagnosed as suffering from polyarteritis nodosa was treated with prednisolone for 10 years. Severe bleeding tendency developed and coagulation studies demonstrated a high titer o...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Okamura T,Yamauchi Y,Fukuda T,Suehiro K,Murakawa M,Shibuya T,Nagasawa K,Harada M,Niho Y

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with sickle cell disease have an increased tendency to develop frequent and severe pyogenic infections. Lymphocyte subpopulations were studied in 14 patients with homozygous sickle cell anaemia (SCA) using the OKT monoclonal antibody. The mean absolute lymphocyte counts observed in patients with SCA were simi...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Adedeji MO

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron overload is a constant and the more important complication in thalassemia. Serum ferritin concentration accurately reflects body iron stores. A total of 245 thalassemic patients aged 12-55 years were examined, 71 having Hb H disease and 174 beta-thalassemia/Hb E disease. The patients received minimal or no blood ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Pootrakul P,Vongsmasa V,La-ongpanich P,Wasi P

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a case of preleukemic dyserythropoiesis, in vitro red cell lysis tests showed a positive acidified serum test whose characteristics are described. The positive acidified serum test occurred in 10 normal sera, in 1 serum with complete deficiency of the fourth component of complement and in 1 serum with complete defi...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Hauptmann G,Sondag D,Lang JM,Oberling F

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) is an interferon (IFN)-induced molecule with apoptotic activity. We examined gene mutations in the death domains of TRAIL receptor 1 (TRAIL-R1) and TRAIL receptor 2 (TRAIL-R2), and in the TRAIL gene promoter in 46 chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) patien...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Liu LG,Tanaka H,Ito K,Ito T,Sultana TA,Kyo T,Kimura A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the diagnosis of multiple myeloma (MM), the radiological skeletal survey (RSS) was proven to be most useful for the detection of bone lesions. Since 1961, a new technique radioisotopic bone scan (RIBS), for the detection of such lesions, using 85Sr and 99mTc, has been shown to be highly sensitive for the detection ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Tamir R,Glanz I,Lubin E,Vana D,Pick AI

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocytic sarcoma of the small intestine preceding or as the presenting feature of acute myelogenous leukemia with chromosome 16 abnormalities has been observed in at least 4 patients. We report the case of a patient initially diagnosed with eosinophilic gastroenteritis, responding to corticosteroid treatment for 2...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Julia A,Nomdedeu JF

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of methylprednisolone on fresh cells from patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) has been studied using the differential staining cytotoxicity (DiSC) assay resulting in LC90s of < or = 0.2 to 2,000 micrograms/ml. Cells from previously treated patients were, on average, significantly more sensitiv...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Bosanquet AG,McCann SR,Crotty GM,Mills MJ,Catovsky D

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of Philadelphia-positive (Ph) acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) in a 40-year-old male is presented. At diagnosis, 80% of bone marrow cells were Ph. Remission with normal blood counts was achieved but the marrow became hypercellular, indicating conversion to chronic granulocytic leukaemia (GCL). The Ph clone p...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： O'Brien DV,Craig JM,Secker-Walker LM,Boughton BJ

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In evaluating hypoimmunoglobulinemia in a patient with nonsecretory myeloma, studies of in vitro immunoglobulin synthesis were performed during a 3-year period. Impaired polyclonal response to mitogen stimulation associated with excessive suppressor activity was demonstrable at diagnosis. Despite successful chemothera...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Shustik C,Michel R,Karsh J

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 69-year-old woman with typical thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura is reported, who was treated successfully by plasma exchange. An initial chromosomal analysis of peripheral blood lymphocytes revealed abnormal patterns of 45, XO/46, XX/47, XXX; a second analysis showed 45, XO/46, XX/47, XXX/47, XX + 21, and a third...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Itoh Y,Taniguchi T,Takeyama N,Kuriki H,Tanaka T

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00