Allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation in beta-thalassemia.

abstract：:This study evaluated the efficacy of hydroxyurea treatment in the prevention of vaso-occlusive crises among children and teenagers with severe sickle cell anemia and sickle cell beta-thalassemia. Nineteen children and young adults with severe sickle cell disease were enrolled to the hydroxyurea treatment trial. The in...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Koren A,Segal-Kupershmit D,Zalman L,Levin C,Abu Hana M,Palmor H,Luder A,Attias D

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study assessed changes in cerebral blood flow and need for chronic blood transfusions in sickle cell disease children after splenectomy. A retrospective chart review of 40 children splenectomized between 1999 and 2014 was performed. The mean time-average maximum velocity before splenectomy was 129 cm/sec; which in...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Siddiqui AH,Soh PB

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective, open-label, randomized, comparative study in pediatric cancer patients was conducted to evaluate the efficacy and safety of cefepime and meropenem in the empiric therapy of febrile neutropenic patients. Febrile episodes were classified as microbiologically documented infection, clinical documented infec...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Oguz A,Karadeniz C,Citak EC,Cil V,Eldes N

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the influence of levamisole therapy on immunocompetent cells and lymphocyte reactivity to mitogens in 25 children with brain tumor. Eleven (11/25) patients were receiving chemotherapy and immunomodulating drug levamisole 3 months after neurosurgery, during maintenance chemotherapy, 2.5 mg/kg of...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Hajnzić TF,Kastelan M,Lukac J,Hajnzić T

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the extragonadal teratomas are located in the sacrococygeal region. Teratoma with malignant sarcomatous differentiation is a rare form of germ cell tumor. The authors describe a 5-year-old-girl with sacrococygeal teratoma in which sarcomatous elements were observed. The patient was treated with complete surgic...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Elli M,Pinarli FG,Kandemir B,Dagdemir A,Ceyhan M,Acar S

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methotrexate (MTX) is an antimetabolite with a major role in the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). The authors report the management of a 9-year-old boy who developed an anaphylactoid reaction to high-dose MTX infusion, after a first challenge with intrathecal administration, during induction therapy f...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Caldeira T,Costa V,Silva I,Oliva T,Norton L

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two children are described who presented with fever and generalized seizures, days 50 and 200, respectively, after matched unrelated donor-bone marrow transplantation. Upon antiepileptic treatment the seizures vanished but somnolence and fever remained. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain was performed and r...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Fischmeister G,Wiesbauer P,Holzmann HM,Peters C,Eibl M,Gadner H

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) inhibitors such as crizotinib and alectinib have been shown to have significant activity in ALK-rearranged non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC). There are no data for alectinib's safety or efficacy in younger patients, though it is superior to crizotinib in adult trials. We present a 14...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Balzer BWR,Loo C,Wegner EA,Nath CE,Lee S,Smith C,Lewis CR,Trahair TN,Anazodo AC

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ondansetron, a highly selective 5-HT3 receptor antagonist, is available in an intravenous (IV) formulation and tables, but syrup would be particularly useful in children. As chemotherapy can affect taste perceptions, this study was undertaken to determine the preference between two flavors of ondansetron syrup in chil...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Stevens R,Votan B,Lane R,Schaison G,Hewitt M,Kohler J,Thyss A

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of the different pharmacological agents and different doses of systemic corticosteroids was analyzed. A total of 1109 patients (median age 8 months; F/M: 2.3) with hemangioma, followed up in our unit for 23 years, were evaluated retrospectively. Forty-five of them received systemic corticosteroids. T...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Akyüz C,Yariş N,Kutluk MT,Büyükpamukçu M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The FLT3 gene encodes a tyrosine kinase receptor that regulates proliferation and differentiation of hematopoietic cells. Recently, the internal duplication of FLT3 has been observed in hematological malignancies, suggesting the involvement of these mutations in leukemogenesis. The authors analyzed the expression of F...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Ishii E,Zaitsu M,Ihara K,Hara T,Miyazaki S

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial protein C receptor (EPCR) is primarily localized on the endothelial cells of large blood vessels and is very low or absent in the microvascular endothelium of most tissues. EPCR augments the thrombin/thrombomodulin-dependent activation of protein C by 5- to 20-fold. EPCR appears to be physiologically signi...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Kendirli T,Ciftçi E,Ince E,Yurdakul E,Kansu A,Akar N

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroblastoma is the most common solid tumor in childhood and is the most frequent neural crest tumor (NCT). More than 90% of the patients excrete high levels of vanilmandelic acid (VMA) and homovanillic acid (HVA) in the urine. Original biochemical methods for measuring these two metabolites of catecholamines employe...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Gregianin LJ,McGill AC,Pinheiro CM,Brunetto AL

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In five patients under the age of 15 with hemophilia and inhibitors, due to frequent joint bleedings, 13 joints were treated with synoviorthesis (intra-articular injection of radioactive gold). The patients received high doses of factor VIII/IX for 2-4 days or were treated simultaneously with tolerance induction accor...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Löfqvist T,Petersson C

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the effect of recombinant human granulocyte-colony stimulation factor (rhG-CSF) on the immune system, serum immunoglobulins, lymphocyte subsets, and serum cytokines were analyzed in eight pediatric patients with aplastic anemia (AA) during 8-week rhG-CSF therapy. The rhG-CSF was administered either subcut...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Hibi S,Yoshihara T,Nakajima F,Misu H,Mabuchi O,Imashuku S

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurological complications may occur following intensive chemotherapy and hematopoietic cell transplantation. Postirradiation somnolence syndrome has been observed in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who received central nervous system preventive therapy with 1800-2400 cGy cranial irradiation. The authors re...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Miyahara M,Azuma E,Hirayama M,Kobayashi M,Hori H,Komada Y,Masuda H

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe a 10-year-old boy with beta-thalassemia major who received double-unit unrelated cord blood transplantation and had a rocky post-transplantation course that included an episode of massive pericardial effusion. Pericardial tube drainage was performed for evacuating fluid. Results showed hemorrhagic...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Chung HT,Hsieh TC,Yu MC,Chang YS,Lo WC,Jaing TH

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of therapy on long-term gonadal function of young people cured of childhood lymphomas and to assess whether a prepubertal state during the treatment protects the gonads from chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy late effects. Clinical evaluation, semen analysis, and endoc...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Ben Arush MW,Solt I,Lightman A,Linn S,Kuten A

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described to estimate MYCN (N-myc) oncogene amplification in neuroblastoma by the technique of differential polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The technique is quicker than conventional Southern blotting techniques and does not require radioactive materials. The ability to measure MYCN amplification from sma...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Huddart SN,Mann JR,McGukin AG,Corbett R

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal education might be an important factor for the neuroblastoma risk in children, but it was conflicting. This meta-analysis was performed to evaluate the relationship between maternal education and neuroblastoma susceptibility and to explore whether maternal education was an important indicator to be associated...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Wang P,Liao N,Liao XH,Liang B,Huang CX,Li W

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is a rare genetically determined immunodeficiency. Neutrophils from CGD patients show a defective killing of phagocytosed fungi and bacteria, due not only to an impairment in oxidative burst, but also to absence of normal pH value within phagocytic vacuole following phagocytosis. Be...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Granzotto M,Leone V,Lepore L,Zerial M,Tommasini A,Ciambra R,Gombac F,Ventura A

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical usefulness of the measurement of red cell zinc protoporphyrin (ZPP), an indicator of iron-deficient erythropoiesis, was assessed in a group of UK children undergoing investigation for red cell microcytosis. Of 213 children studied, 136 had increased ZPP values. Of these, 86 also had reduced iron stores as...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Hinchliffe RF,Lilleyman JS,Steel GJ,Bellamy GJ

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-thalassemia major is a severe, transfusion-dependent anemia that also causes infertility due to iron deposition to endocrine organs after overtransfusion. Very few pregnancies have been reported among such patients after modern therapies. In this study, 32 women with thalassemia who were admitted to Ali Asghar Ch...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Ansari S,Azarkeivan A,Tabaroki A

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections remain a serious complication in pediatric oncology patients. To determine if daily bathing with Chlorhexidine gluconate can decrease the rate of nosocomial infection in pediatric oncology patients, we reviewed rates of infections in pediatric oncology patients over a 14-month span. Intervention group recei...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Raulji CM,Clay K,Velasco C,Yu LC

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report on supernumerary nipples and various hematologic disorders in 7 patients [factor X deficiency (n = 1), factor XI deficiency (n = 2), acute lymphoblastic leukemia (n = 3), and acute myeloblastic leukemia (n = 1)]. They would like to draw attention to the association of supernumerary nipples with hema...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Aslan D,Gürsel T,Kaya Z

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated serum C-reactive protein (CRP) level and serum sodium concentration as early indicators of bacteremia in neutropenic children in two different series in 1983-1984 (49 bacteremias) and 1989-1990 (29 bacteremias). During the earlier period, the goal was to avoid unnecessary antimicrobial therapy. Currently ...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Riikonen P,Saarinen UM,Perkkiö M,Hovi L,Siimes MA

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1973 and 1991, 10 patients with locally advanced [stages III and IV] nasopharyngeal carcinoma were treated at the Northern Israel Oncology Center. All patients were treated with wide-field irradiation to the primary tumor, including the base of skull, neck, and supraclavicular region. After 1984, 6 patients al...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Arush MW,Stein ME,Rosenblatt E,Lavie R,Kuten A

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors aimed to investigate the efficacy of epoetin-alpha on hemoglobin levels and red cell transfusion requirement in children with both hematologic malignancy (HM, n = 27) and solid tumors (ST, n = 14). Epoetin-alpha was given (150 U/kg or 250 U/kg, thrice weekly) for 12 weeks. Epoetin alpha significantly incre...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Yilmaz D,Cetingül N,Kantar M,Oniz H,Kansoy S,Kavakli K

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nesiritide is a recombinant formulation of B-type natriuretic peptide used most commonly in the treatment of adults with decompensated congestive heart failure. The physiologic effects of BNP include natriuresis, diuresis, and smooth muscle relaxation. These physiologic effects result in its beneficial therapeutic eff...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Wheeler AD,Tobias JD

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a frequently encountered disease in childhood. Recent reports pointed to the benefit of high-dose steroid in ITP treatment since it resulted in a better outcome in a shorter time than IV immunoglobulin therapy. In the authors' clinic, mainly after 1984, megadose methyl prednisolone (MD...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Yetgin S,Yenicesu IC,Ersoy F

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00