Impact of unrelated donor status on the incidence and outcome of cytomegalovirus infections after non-myeloablative allogeneic stem cell transplantation.

abstract：:Two new glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD, D-glucose 6-phosphate: NADP oxido reductase, E.C. 1.1.1.49) variants, designated G6PD Napoli and G6PD Ferrara II, are described in propositi from two unrelated families. Characterization side by side of the two variants according to W.H.O. recommendations reveals minor ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： De Flora A,Morelli A,Benatti U,Giuntini P,Ferraris AM,Galiano S,Ravazzolo R,Gaetani GF

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Employing an immunoblotting procedure, we have identified and characterized an autoantigen carried on glycoprotein (GP) IIb in a patient with chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), and have compared the location of the autoantigen with that of the platelet-specific alloantigen Baka. Immunoblots, using the ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tomiyama Y,Kurata Y,Shibata Y,Honda S,Furubayashi T,Mizutani H,Tsubakio T,Yonezawa T,Tarui S

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：:Flow cytometry was used to determine the percentage and number of circulating CD34+ cells in fetal blood from 100 pregnancies at 13-38 weeks gestation. When expressed as a percentage of the total number of lymphocytes, the proportion of CD34+ cells decreased exponentially from a mean of 11.1% (9.2 x 10(7)/l) at 13 wee...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Thilaganathan B,Nicolaides KH,Morgan G

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Xba I polymorphic site in the factor VIII gene is present in the int22h-1 region which is found in two other copies (int22h-2 and int22h-3) distal to the gene. Previously the polymorphic status of the Xba I locus was studied by either Southern blot or PCR that amplified all three copies. Here we report the use of ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： El-Maarri O,Oldenburg J,Cağlayan SH

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inverse of the difference between rates, called the 'number needed to treat' (NNT), was suggested 20 years ago as a good way to present the results of comparisons of success or failure under different therapies. Such comparisons usually arise in randomised controlled trials and meta-analysis. This article reviews ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hutton JL

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydroxycarbamide (HC) (or hydroxyurea) has been reported to increase fetal haemoglobin levels and improve clinical symptoms in sickle cell anaemia (SCA) patients. However, the complete pathway by which HC acts remains unclear. To study the mechanisms involved in the action of HC, global gene expression profiles were o...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Costa FC,da Cunha AF,Fattori A,de Sousa Peres T,Costa GG,Machado TF,de Albuquerque DM,Gambero S,Lanaro C,Saad ST,Costa FF

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 80 hereditary spherocytosis (HS) kindreds studied using denaturing electrophoretic separation of solubilized eythrocyte membrane proteins, we recognized three prominent subsets: HS with isolated spectrin deficiency, HS with combined spectrin and ankyrin deficiency, and HS with band 3 deficiency These three subse...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dhermy D,Galand C,Bournier O,Boulanger L,Cynober T,Schismanoff PO,Bursaux E,Tchernia G,Boivin P,Garbarz M

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult T-cell leukaemia (ATL) is caused by human T-cell leukaemia virus type I (HTLV-I). It has been suggested that cytokines play a role in the development and in the neoplastic cell growth of ATL. However, the precise mechanism involved in this process still remains unclear. Interleukin-21 (IL-21) and its receptor (I...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ueda M,Imada K,Imura A,Koga H,Hishizawa M,Uchiyama T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a therapy-related MDS (RAEB) patient with eosinophilia, unbalanced translocation der(7)t(1;7) (q12;q22) and lung cancer. We observed no increase in cytokine levels in serum or in the conditioned medium (CM) of peripheral T cells cultured with or without IL-2. When bone marrow (BM) cells were cultured with GM...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Imai Y,Yasuhara S,Hanafusa N,Ohsaka A,Enokihara H,Tomizuka H,Sonoyama M,Miura YS,Tohda S,Nara N,Takahashi A

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the present study was to further disclose the autoantigenic repertoire carried by the platelet glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa complex. IgG-F(ab')2 fragments were prepared from two prototype ITP patients, and their ability to block the binding of GPIIb/IIIa reactive antibodies derived from other patients w...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hou M,Stockelberg D,Kutti J,Wadenvik H

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The object of this study was to determine whether there were any differences between the 'typical' child with fever and neutropenia and their adult counterpart with regard to infection type and outcome, by analysis of 3080 patients, including 759 children < 18 years of age and 2321 adults. These represented patients r...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hann I,Viscoli C,Paesmans M,Gaya H,Glauser M

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bcl-2 gene is rearranged in most cases of follicular lymphoma and the breakpoint clusters into two specific regions: mbr and mcr. Rearrangements to immunoglobulin heavy chain genes (IgH) result in a deregulation of the gene and increased transcription of mRNA for the bcl-2 protein. In chronic lymphocytic leukaemia...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Merup M,Spasokoukotskaja T,Einhorn S,Smith CI,Gahrton G,Juliusson G

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The records of 637 patients with lymphoproliferative disorders and 346 patients with myeloproliferative disorders were retrospectively analysed for the presence of additional autoimmune derangements. The frequency of autoimmune perturbations in lymphoproliferative diseases (51 cases; 8.0%) was significantly higher tha...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dührsen U,Augener W,Zwingers T,Brittinger G

更新日期：1987-10-01 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：:Graft rejection and graft-versus-host disease are major problems in mismatched marrow transplants along with toxicity from standard myeloablative host treatments. We have established a tolerization model, using 1 Gy irradiation, which reduces stem cell capacity to < 10% of control while causing minimal myelosuppressio...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lambert JF,Colvin GA,Zhong S,Wang H,D'Hondt L,Abedi M,Frimberger AE,Stewart FM,Quesenberry PJ

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple technique to separate erythrocytes from bone marrow by sedimentation under gravity after addition of hydroxyethyl starch is described. This method of removing red blood cells from the donor marrow was evaluated in 23 consecutive allogeneic bone marrow transplants between ABH-incompatible individuals. Infusion...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ho WG,Champlin RE,Feig SA,Gale RP

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After T-cell depleted marrow transplantation, there is a rapid recovery of cytotoxic effector cells, with activity against targets not susceptible to killing by 'resting' natural killer cells. These targets include Epstein-Barr virus transformed B cells and leukaemic cell lines. Activated killer cell function declines...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Leger O,Drexler HG,Reittie JE,Secker-Walker L,Prentice HG,Brenner MK

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 32 kD lipid-raft-associated membrane protein 'stomatin' is deficient from the erythrocyte membrane in the Na+-K+ leaky haemolytic anaemia, overhydrated hereditary stomatocytosis (OHSt). To date, no mutation in the gene coding for this protein has so far been found in OHSt. In this study, we have analysed the distr...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Fricke B,Parsons SF,Knöpfle G,von Düring M,Stewart GW

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet and cell stimulation lead to plasma membrane remodelling, resulting in phosphatidylserine (PS) externalisation in the outer leaflet of the membrane, associated with the shedding of PS-rich microparticles (MPs), and contributes to thrombin generation by promoting the assembly of coagulation enzyme complexes. A...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Proulle V,Hugel B,Guillet B,Grunebaum L,Lambert T,Freyssinet JM,Dreyfus M

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone disease in patients with thalassaemia major is a multifactorial and still poorly understood process. The present study evaluated 45 thalassaemic patients using dual X-ray absorptiometry at three sites (lumbar spine, head of femur and forearm) to assess bone mineral density, in parallel with a series of biochemica...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Voskaridou E,Kyrtsonis MC,Terpos E,Skordili M,Theodoropoulos I,Bergele A,Diamanti E,Kalovidouris A,Loutradi A,Loukopoulos D

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients with familial antithrombin III deficiency underwent a trial of prophylactic antithrombotic therapy with stanozolol. An increase in plasma fibrinolytic activity and antithrombin III was seen. Acute venous thrombosis occurred in two patients; in the first patient thrombosis was precipitated by venography ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Winter JH,Fenech A,Bennett B,Douglas AS

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify a commonly deleted region of 13q14 in idiopathic myelofibrosis (IMF), we used fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis to test for deletion of the RB1 and BRCA2 genes, and the microsatellite loci D13S319 and D13S25, in a series of 25 patients. A further two patients with myelofibrosis secondary to polyc...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sinclair EJ,Forrest EC,Reilly JT,Watmore AE,Potter AM

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We detected two transversions in two unrelated Italian patients with type 2A von Willebrand disease (VWD): a C to A at nucleotide 8821 and a T to A at nucleotide 8830, resulting in the missense mutations Pro864His and Val867Glu respectively. Both mutations were in the heterozygous form and abolished the BstXI restrict...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bernardi F,Casonato A,Marchetti G,Gemmati D,Bizzaro N,Pontara E,Girolami A

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2-year-old girl is described with severe haemophilia A (factor VIII: C < 0.01 units/ml). Both of her parents were phenotypically normal. Cytogenetic analysis on the proband demonstrated an interstitial X chromosome deletion encompassing Xq26-q28. Molecular studies with several polymorphic markers close to and within...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Windsor S,Lyng A,Taylor SA,Ewenstein BM,Neufeld EJ,Lillicrap D

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a randomized study that compared human leucocyte antigen-identical allogeneic granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF)-mobilized peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) versus bone marrow (BM) transplantation, the expression of activation markers, CD23, CD25 and CD45RO by B cells, was compared in blood before and af...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tayebi H,Lapierre V,Saas P,Lienard A,Sutton L,Milpied N,Attal M,Cahn JY,Kuentz M,Blaise D,Hervé P,Tiberghien P,Robinet E,Société Française de Greffe de Moelle et de Therapie Cellulaire.

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A female patient with delayed haemolytic transfusion reaction due to anti-M antibody is described. Diagnosis was based on laboratory evidence of haemolysis and on characteristic serological findings. Anti-M was detected in the recipient's serum 7 d after the last transfusion episode. This alloantibody had not been pre...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sancho JM,Pujol M,Fernández F,Soler M,Manzano P,Feliu E

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet mass (mean platelet volume x platelet count) can be derived from data obtained from the routine full blood count and separates patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) at diagnosis into three distinct prognostic groups: low platelet mass group - median survival 5 months and 5-year survival 0%; intermedia...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bowles KM,Warner BA,Baglin TP

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An anomalous organization of the cytoskeleton has been described in lymphocytes from chronic lymphatic leukaemia and in only few cell lines. We have now studied normal and neoplastic lymphocytes and lymphoid cell lines of both T and B lineage in order to detect morphological differences in the expression of microfilam...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Zauli D,Gobbi M,Crespi C,Tazzari PL,Miserocchi F,Tassinari A

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haematological characteristics have been compared in 29 subjects with heterozygous beta0 thalassaemia and in 33 subjects with heterozygous beta+ thalassaemia, identified by the type of sickle cell-beta thalassaemia among close relatives, in a Jamaican Negro population. Total haemoglobin, MCV and MCH were significantly...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Millard DP,Mason K,Serjeant BE,Serjeant GR

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00