Primary prophylaxis with lamivudine of hepatitis B virus reactivation in chronic HbsAg carriers with lymphoid malignancies treated with chemotherapy.

abstract：:Sickle cell disease (SCD) affects approximately 100,000 people in the US, 12,500 in the UK, and millions worldwide. SCD is typified by painful vaso-occlusive episodes, haemolytic anaemia and organ damage. A secondary complication is infection, which can be bacterial, fungal or viral. Universal newborn screening, routi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sobota A,Sabharwal V,Fonebi G,Steinberg M

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reported here is the first example of a partial D antigen stimulating the production of anti-D: stimulation was of fetal origin. During her second pregnancy, anti-D developed in the serum of a D-negative mother who had received Rh immunoglobulin after the birth of her first D-positive child. Her second baby had modera...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mayne K,Bowell P,Woodward T,Sibley C,Lomas C,Tippett P

更新日期：1990-12-01 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：:A radioimmunoassay has been developed to measure platelet factor 4 (PF4) in biological fluids both in vitro and in vivo. The assay has been shown to be highly specific for PF4 and has a sensitivity of 0.08 ng/assay tube and 1.6 ng/ml of plasma. The preparation of plasma for the measurement of in vivo levels of PF4 req...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Chesterman CN,McGready JR,Doyle DJ,Morgan FJ

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The records of 121 children presenting with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia between 1969 and 1982 were reviewed. The overall relapse free survival rate was 50%. However, girls presenting with a total white blood cell count of 20 X 10(9)/l or less (35% of all patients) had a particularly favourable prognosis with an 80% ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Stockley RJ,Ahlquist PY,Mott MG

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(90) Y-ibritumomab-tiuxetan ((90) YIT) was used as a first-line therapy for patients with early-stage follicular lymphoma (FL) or marginal zone B-cell lymphoma (MZL). Thirty-one patients were treated, with an overall 3-month response rate of 100% (68% complete response, 29% unconfirmed complete response and 3% partial...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Samaniego F,Berkova Z,Romaguera JE,Fowler N,Fanale MA,Pro B,Shah JJ,McLaughlin P,Sehgal L,Selvaraj V,Braun FK,Mathur R,Feng L,Neelapu SS,Kwak LW

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe genetic, haematological and biochemical properties of a new mouse pigment mutant, cocoa (coa). Cocoa is a recessive mutation located on the centromeric end of chromosome 3 near the Car-2 locus. The mutation causes increased bleeding time accompanied by symptoms of platelet storage pool deficiency (SPD), in...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Novak EK,Sweet HO,Prochazka M,Parentis M,Soble R,Reddington M,Cairo A,Swank RT

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previously reported cases, congenital deficiency of coagulation factor XIII has been found to result from the absence of the enzymatically active A subunits. In the family reported here two members were found to be heterozygous for an unstable A subunit which, in the homozygous state, or in the heterozygous state w...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Castle S,Board PG,Anderson RA

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The question as to whether autologous stem cell transplantation (SCT) after consolidation chemotherapy improves the probability of survival of patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) in first remission has not been settled. Here, we present the results of a phase III study conducted in newly diagnosed adult AML pa...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Breems DA,Boogaerts MA,Dekker AW,Van Putten WL,Sonneveld P,Huijgens PC,Van der Lelie J,Vellenga E,Gratwohl A,Verhoef GE,Verdonck LF,Löwenberg B

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone loss in multiple myeloma (MM) is caused by an uncoupling of bone formation to resorption trigged by malignant plasma cells. Increasing evidence indicates that the bone remodelling compartment (BRC) canopy, which normally covers the remodelling sites, is important for coupled bone remodelling. Loss of this canopy ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hinge M,Delaisse JM,Plesner T,Clasen-Linde E,Salomo M,Andersen TL

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the relationship between duodenal mucosal mRNA levels of the transcription factor, NF-E2, H-ferritin (a putative NF-E2 regulated gene) and iron absorption in mice. CD1-strain mice with normal and altered iron metabolism (hypoxic, iron-deficient, iron-loaded) and animals with genetic defects of ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Raja KB,Gerard B,McKie AT,Simpson RJ,Peters TJ,Grandchamp B,Beaumont C

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a familial study of AT III, a type III antithrombin III variant which was identified in the propositus by gene analysis as Pro 41 Leu heterozygous mutation. None of the four members of the family who presented with defective heparin cofactor (hep-cofactor) activity, and therefore probably carried the mutat...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： de Roux N,Chadeuf G,Molho-Sabatier P,Plouin PF,Aiach M

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor VIII (FVIII) inhibitors appear in 3-20% of haemophilia A patients after injection of FVIII concentrates. However, autoantibodies to FVIII are also reported in non-haemophiliacs. In these patients FVIII inhibitor disappears spontaneously or diminishes in response to immunosuppressive therapy. However, a few pati...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sunagawa T,Uezu Y,Kadena K,Tokuyama K,Kinjo F,Saito A

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the blood from 150 patients with primary AL-amyloidosis for circulating monoclonal plasma cells using a sensitive slide-based immunofluorescence technique. The percentage of monoclonal blood plasma cells (BPC) that were in S-phase was determined by the bromodeoxyuridine labelling index (BLI). Monoclonal B...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： McElroy EA Jr,Witzig TE,Gertz MA,Greipp PR,Kyle RA

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Critically ill patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) present with hypoxaemia and are mechanically ventilated to support gas exchange. We performed a retrospective, observational study of blood gas analyses (n = 3518) obtained from patients with COVID-19 to investigate changes in haemoglobin oxygen (Hb-O2 )...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Vogel DJ,Formenti F,Retter AJ,Vasques F,Camporota L

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) occurring in a patient with untreated chronic lymphatic leukaemia (CLL) is presented. The diagnosis of two simultaneous leukaemic processes is based on morphological, cytochemical and immunological findings. The significance of the development of AML in patients with CLL is disc...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lawlor E,McCann SR,Whelan A,Greally J,Temperley IJ

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 18-month-old child, who had no evidence of liver disease, malabsorption, or chronic ingestion of coumarin compounds, was found to have plasma deficiencies of factors II, VII, IX and X. Assays for factor II and X by immunological techniques (antibody neutralization and immunoelectrophoresis) revealed normal or eleva...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Johnson CA,Chung KS,McGrath KM,Bean PE,Roberts HR

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study was undertaken to determine the effectiveness of an empirical antibiotic therapy regimen in 34 neutropenic patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation or remission-induction chemotherapy for leukaemia. Throughout the study period a total of 90 pyrexial episodes were monitored in which organisms...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Barnes RA,Rogers TR

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During definitive erythropoiesis, erythroid precursors undergo differentiation through multiple nucleated states to an enucleated reticulocyte, which loses its residual RNA/organelles to become a mature erythrocyte. Over the course of these transformations, continuous changes in membrane proteins occur, including shif...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kodippili GC,Spector J,Kang GE,Liu H,Wickrema A,Ritchie K,Low PS

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular defect of a congenitally dysfunctional form of prothrombin, prothrombin Obihiro, was identified in a patient with a severe bleeding tendency. He showed reduced fibrinogen clotting activity, despite a normal prothrombin antigen level. Nucleotide sequencing of amplified DNA revealed a C-->T change at nucle...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Miyata T,Zheng YZ,Kato A,Kato H

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial cells (EC) were isolated from the umbilical vein of a newborn girl with type I 'platelet low' von Willebrand disease (I vWD) and endothelial localization and release and the ability of subendothelial von Willebrand factor (vWF) to support platelet adhesion were compared with those of normal EC. vWF was det...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Federici AB,de Groot PG,Moia M,Ijsseldijk MJ,Sixma JJ,Mannucci PM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cord blood (CB) has successfully been used as a stem cell source for haemopoietic reconstitution. However, a significant delay in platelet engraftment is consistently found in CB versus adult peripheral blood (PB) or bone marrow transplants. We sought to determine whether or not CB megakaryocytes have reached terminal...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bornstein R,García-Vela J,Gilsanz F,Auray C,Calés C

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hodgkin-Reed Sternberg (H-RS) cells harbour clonal immunoglobulin gene (Ig) rearrangements in almost all cases of classical Hodgkin's disease but lack Ig gene expression. In the H-RS cell line L1236, a somatic mutation of the Ig heavy-chain gene promoter octamer motif has been described as a putative reason for absenc...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Re D,Staratschek-Jox A,Holtick U,Diehl V,Wolf J

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many adult T-cell leukaemia/lymphoma (ATLL) patients who respond to induction treatment, then relapse. Knowing the clonality pattern of residual tumourous clones during treatment could help understand disease evolution and aid therapeutic decisions. We developed a sensitive and semi-quantitative molecular analysis of ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Leclercq I,Mortreux F,Morschhauser F,Duthilleul P,Desgranges C,Gessain A,Cavrois M,Vernant JP,Hermine O,Wattel E

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune-mediated pathways have been recognized to be of importance in the pathogenesis of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). We assessed a broad variety of immune-related and inflammatory conditions and subsequent CLL development among 4 million adult male veterans admitted to VA hospitals. We identified 3,680 CLL ca...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Landgren O,Gridley G,Check D,Caporaso NE,Morris Brown L

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bortezomib in combination with cyclophosphamide and dexamethasone (CyBorD, is a well-established frontline chemotherapy regimen for patients with multiple myeloma, but prospective data on elderly non-transplant eligible patients is limited. A total of 155 patients aged 70 years or older with newly diagnosed multiple m...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Chan H,Chai K,Shih S,Lewsey R,Chen K,McDiarmid B,Jackson S,Simpson D

更新日期：2019-11-01 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：:Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is characterized by a minority of neoplastic Hodgkin-Reed Sternberg (HRS) cells surrounded by a non-neoplastic reactive infiltrate. As immunological mechanisms appear to be crucial in classical HL pathogenesis, altered serum chemokine levels might be related to disease activity. Serum levels of n...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Niens M,Visser L,Nolte IM,van der Steege G,Diepstra A,Cordano P,Jarrett RF,Te Meerman GJ,Poppema S,van den Berg A

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our knowledge of the cellular and molecular mechanisms of platelet production has greatly expanded in recent years due to the opportunity to culture in vitro megakaryocytes and to create transgenic animals with specific genetic defects that interfere with platelet biogenesis. However, in vitro models do not reproduce ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Pecci A,Balduini CL

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lack of consensus for first-line marginal zone lymphoma (MZL) treatment and toxicities associated with currently available systemic therapies have inspired evaluation of immunotherapeutic agents yielding robust outcomes with improved tolerability. We previously reported durable efficacy with first-line lenalidomide an...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Becnel MR,Nastoupil LJ,Samaniego F,Davis RE,You MJ,Green M,Hagemeister FB,Fanale MA,Fayad LE,Westin JR,Wang M,Oki Y,Forbes SG,Feng L,Neelapu SS,Fowler NH

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00