The changing pattern of bloodstream infection in pediatric oncology patients in the United Arab Emirates.

abstract：:Six transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia major patients were treated with allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) transplant. The donors were HLA identical siblings except one donor who was a father with one-antigen mismatch of HLA-B loci. The donors were mobilized with G-CSF and PBSC was infused without manipu...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Fang J,Huang S,Chen C,Zhou D,Wu Y,Bao R

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a rare and fatal hematological syndrome that causes a disturbance of the immune system. Overall mortality of HLH is greater than 50% and the majority of patients who die do so within the first 8 weeks of chemotherapy treatment. To find clinical parameters relating to high-ri...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Dao AT,Luong VT,Nguyen TT,Huynh QT,Phan TT,Lam MT,Ngoma AM,Koriyama C

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of G-CSF after myelotoxic chemotherapy accelerates neutrophil recovery reducing the risk of febrile neutropenia. Current guidelines recommend initiating G-CSF 24 hours after myelotoxic chemotherapy. However, the optimal timing of post-chemotherapy G-CSF administration has not been elucidated. Our previous work...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Yankelevich M,Hoogstra DJ,Abrams J,Chu R,Bhambhani K,Taub JW

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reported long-term outcome of endemic Burkitt lymphoma (eBL) patients who present with paraplegia is largely unknown. Records of BL patients treated with comparable short-interval cyclophosphamide chemotherapy schedules between 2004 and 2014 at three Baptist mission hospitals in Cameroon were reviewed. Survivors w...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Hesseling PB,Mbah G,Kouya F,Kimbi C,Nfor P,Kaah J,Kuruvilla R,Best A,Wharin P

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parvovirus B19 (PVB19) is the causative agent of infectious erythema. In healthy children the virus causes transient erythroid aplasia, whereas in children with chronic hemolytic anemias it can cause severe aplastic crises, and in immunodeficient individuals it can produce chronic red cell aplasia. If contracted durin...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Miniero R,Dalponte S,Linari A,Saracco P,Testa A,Musiani M

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study is to evaluate the etiologic and clinical characteristics, treatment regimens, and outcome of the patients with intracranial tumors presenting with central diabetes insipidus (DI). Sixty-nine patients with intracranial tumors presenting with central DI between 1972 and 2012 were retrospectively ev...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Varan A,Atas E,Aydın B,Yalçın B,Akyüz C,Kutluk T,Büyükpamukçu M

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overall survival from cancer has greatly improved, although it still remains the second leading cause of mortality in the world. This result was achieved through the use of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, which are severely toxic to normal tissues. In the long-term follow-up of cancer patients, the development of secon...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Varan A,Kebudi R

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although survival rates in childhood cancer have distinctly improved, pediatric cancer patients often experience various disease- and treatment-related side effects with long-term consequences. Despite current studies investigating inactivity and limitations in physical functioning and quality of life in pediatric can...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Beulertz J,Bloch W,Prokop A,Baumann FT

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary immunodeficiency disorders (PID) are under-reported from the developing world. We present data regarding diagnosis and outcome from a hospital-based registry in India. Forty-seven patients fulfilled diagnostic criteria. Majority were males. Subgroups were disorders of immune dysregulation-29%, B&T-cell abnorma...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Chinnabhandar V,Yadav SP,Kaul D,Verma IC,Sachdeva A

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An episode of transient encephalopathy after the first course of intravenous high-dose methotrexate (HD-MTX; 1000 mg/m2) was observed in a 4-year-old girl with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The neurological abnormalities took place 5 days after HD-MTX therapy. She experienced complex partial seizure and left hemipares...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Kubo M,Azuma E,Arai S,Komada Y,Ito M,Sakurai M

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Venous thrombotic events (VTE) are a well-recognized complication in pediatric cancer patients. Population-based data on the incidence and characteristics of VTE in all pediatric cancer patients are limited. This information is crucial to identify patients at high risk and design targeted interventions accord...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Asyyed Z,MacDonald T,Digout C,Kulkarni K

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, 82 Turkish children with Hodgkin's disease (HD) between 1 and 14 years of age and diagnosed over a 10-year period were evaluated retrospectively. More than half of the patients (54%) presented with advanced stages of HD. Mixed cellularity (MC) was the most frequent (56.1%) histopathologic type, which wa...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Ertem U,Duru F,Dağdemir A,Taçyildiz N,Pamir A,Akçayöz A,Uluoğlu O,Teziç T

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is an acute self-limited disease of childhood, mostly resolving within 6 months irrespective of whether therapy is given or not. Treatment options when indicated include corticosteroids, intravenous immune globulin (IVIG), and anti-RhD immunoglobulin. We reviewed our 32 years' experience ...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Yildiz I,Ozdemir N,Celkan T,Soylu S,Karaman S,Canbolat A,Dogru O,Erginoz E,Apak H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plexiform neurofibroma is a relatively common but potentially devastating manifestation of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF 1). A substantial number of plexiform neurofibroma causes morbidity. Various treatment modalities are considered to decrease pain. In this paper a case with plexiform neurofibroma causing severe pain...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Citak EC,Oguz A,Karadeniz C,Okur A,Memis L,Boyunaga O

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor X (FX) is the component of both extrinsic and intrinsic coagulation cascade and is the first enzyme of the common pathway which results in thrombus. Congenital FX deficiency (FXD) is an extremely rare coagulation defect. In this study, we aimed to investigate the clinical and laboratory data of the patients dia...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Karabel M,Söker M,Yıldırım AT,Oymak Y,Kelekçi S,Karabel D

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to address the clinical impact of recombination-activating gene (RAG1) expression and tumor suppressor IKZF1 gene deletions in Philadelphia negative B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) patients. Fifty newly diagnosed pediatric Philadelphia negative B-ALL patients were included in thi...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Aref S,Khaled N,Menshawy NE,Sabry M,Agder MA

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outcomes in pediatric B-Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (B NHL) have improved with intensive chemotherapy protocols, with long-term survival now over 80%. However, long-term adverse effects of therapy and poor outcomes for patients who relapse remain challenges. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the potential risks and benefit...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Eissa HM,Allen CE,Kamdar K,Simko S,Goradia P,Dreyer Z,Steuber P,McClain KL,Guillerman RP,Bollard CM

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) embraces the frequently indistinguishable conditions of familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHL) and virus-associated hemophagocytic syndrome (VAHS). Without therapy FHL is invariably fatal, but successful therapy, including chemotherapy and immunotherapy followed by b...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Al-Lamki Z,Wali YA,Pathare A,Ericson KG,Henter JI

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：:The authors sought to determine prevalence, social, economic, and dietary patterns of young children (n = 20) identified as having vitamin B12 deficiency anemia after admission to their hospital in the last 3 years. The diagnosis of vitamin B12 deficiency was based on symptoms and clinical findings, findings on periph...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Cetinkaya F,Yildirmak Y,Kutluk G,Erdem E

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoporosis is common in patients with thalassemia major. A 16-year-old patient with thalassemia major was referred for evaluation of osteoporosis. The results of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in a patient with thalassemia major are presented. The patient underwent measurements of the spine in both AP and lateral ...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Yildiz M,Canatan D

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three children with malignant solid tumors developed hyponatremia with renal sodium wasting associated with other signs of tubular dysfunction, such as hypokalemia or hypomagnesemia, a few days after cis-diammine dichloroplatinum (CDDP) administration. The normalization of serum electrolyte disturbances was obtained w...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Vassal G,Rubie H,Kalifa C,Hartmann O,Lemerle J

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infantile hemangioendothelioma is the most common hepatic vascular tumor in infants less than 6 months of age, with a prevalence of 1%. Serum alpha-fetoprotein levels have been used as an important tumor marker for hepatoblastoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, and germ cell tumors. It is rarely elevated in hepatic hemangi...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Sari N,Yalçin B,Akyüz C,Haliloglu M,Büyükpamukçu M

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All pediatric osteosarcomas treated in our hospital between 1985 and 1995 were reviewed. There were 26 patients, 15 males and 11 females, aged 20 or less at diagnosis. All had limb primaries. Nineteen patients had localized disease and seven presented with metastases. Intensive multiagent chemotherapy was given both p...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Kwong DL,Ha SY,Chau KY,Choi PH,Chan GC,Kwong PW,Lau YL

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 11-year-old girl with hereditary factor-VII deficiency and her family have been studied for factor VII coagulation activity (VII:C) and factor VII antigen level (VII:Ag). The proband had 11% VII:C, whereas her VII:Ag was at a level that corresponds to about 50% coagulation activity. Forty-two members of the proband...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Svendsen J,Osterud B

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single institution's experience of three patients with nephroblastoma extending via the inferior vena cava to the right heart is described. The case reports and the pertinent literature illustrate that preoperative failure to detect the intracardial extension increases the risk of right outflow obstruction and pulmo...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Kremens B,Sadony V,Goepel M,Hellinger A,Havers W

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten children receiving 5 to 6 week courses of radiotherapy after brain tumor surgery were given ondansetron treatment for persistent nausea and emesis. All patients continued the ondansetron treatment until the end of their radiotherapy course. Nausea, emesis, appetite, and adverse events were scored throughout the on...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Lippens RJ,Broeders GC

更新日期：1996-05-01 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：AIM:To standardize diagnosis and treatment of childhood Wilms tumor (WT) in Turkey. METHODS AND PATIENTS:Between 1998 and 2006, WT patients were registered from 19 centers. Patients <16 years with unilateral WT whose treatment started in first postoperative 3 weeks were included. Treatments were stage I favorable (FH)...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Akyüz C,Yalçin B,Yildiz I,Hazar V,Yörük A,Tokuç G,Akici F,Büyükpamukçu N,Kale G,Atahan L,Büyükünal C,Dervişoğlu S,Atkovar GA,Melikoğlu M,Karpuzoğlu G,Olgun N,Ayan I,Oğuz A,Yariş N,Dağdemir A,Darendeliler E,Sande

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary erythrocytosis diagnosed in a 10-month-old female and followed for 12 years is described. The erythrocytosis was associated with an abnormally elevated set point of erythropoietin production in which the sensitivity fluctuated independently, but corresponded to the alterations in the oxygen-carrying capacity o...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Kalmantis T,Kalmanti M

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00