Danazol therapy in idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura: the efficacy of low-medium dose therapy.

abstract：:Waldenström macroglobulinemia is a lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma characterized by production of the immunoglobulin M (IgM) monoclonal protein. Commonly involved sites are the bone marrow, lymph nodes, and spleen. Lymphoplasmacytic infiltration of the central nervous system (CNS), in contrast, is referred to as Bing-Neel ...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Morita K,Yoshimi A,Masuda A,Ichikawa M,Yatomi Y,Kurokawa M

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA breaks can be induced by exogenous stimuli or by endogenous stress, but are also generated during recombination of V, D, and J genes (V(D)J recombination), immunoglobulin class switch recombination (CSR). Among various DNA breaks generated, DNA double strand break (DSB) is the most deleterious one. DNA damage resp...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Morio T

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We established two novel cell lines, designated as IMS-BC1 and IMS-BC2, from two patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia in blast crisis. The two cell lines were positive for CD13 and CD33 and negative for CD34 and HLA-DR by surface marker analysis. IMS-BC1 had four Philadelphia (Ph1) chromosomes and a breakpoint w...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Nagamura F,Nagamura-Inoue T,Tojo A,Minamihisamatsu M,Tanabe T,Zaike Y,Tani K,Saisho H,Asano S

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) cells express a considerable level of CD33, which is the target of gemtuzumab ozogamicin (GO), and a significantly lower level of P-glycoprotein (P-gp). Therefore, GO is predicted to be a successful treatment for APL. In this article, we report on the GO treatment of 2 patients with ...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Takeshita A,Shinjo K,Naito K,Matsui H,Sahara N,Shigeno K,Suzumura T,Horii T,Shirai N,Maekawa M,Yada Y,Teshima H,Takeuchi J,Ohnishi K,Ohno R

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 47-year-old woman presented with severe hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) followed by heart failure. An echocardiogram showed an ejection fraction of 20%, and a cardiac catheterization followed by a myocardial histologic evaluation demonstrated dilated cardiomyopathy. Plasma exchange and hemodialysis were performed re...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Alexopoulou A,Dourakis SP,Zovoilis C,Agapitos E,Androulakis A,Filiotou A,Archimandritis AJ

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed autologous CD34+ stem cell transplantation in 3 patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) refractory to conventional treatment. All patients had systemic type JRA. In case 1 (a 3-year-old boy), purified CD34+ cells from bone marrow were transplanted after a preconditioning regimen consisting of cy...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Kishimoto T,Hamazaki T,Yasui M,Sasabe M,Okamura T,Sakata N,Inoue M,Yagi K,Kawa K

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a patient with Philadelphia chromosome (Ph)-positive chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) who developed an extramedullary blast crisis in the central nervous system (CNS) and then a subcutaneous tumor of the neck during treatment with imatinib mesylate. Administered 400 mg of imatinib mesylate after the diag...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Matsuda M,Morita Y,Shimada T,Miyatake J,Hirase C,Tanaka M,Tatsumi Y,Maeda Y,Kanamaru A

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous improvement (SI) occurs more frequently in children with chronic immune thrombocytopenia (cITP) than in adults. It is generally accepted that, with the exception of splenectomy, conventional medical approaches for cITP do not change the natural course of the disease. Previous studies on pediatric cITP have...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Kato M,Koh K,Kikuchi A,Hanada R

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic strategies for early-stage diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) are often influenced by tumor extent, but the prognostic value of this parameter is rarely defined. Here, a retrospective analysis was performed to define the impact of tumor extent on survival of patients with early-stage DLBCL. Eighty-six p...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Yoo C,Yoon DH,Kim JE,Jo J,Park SJ,Yoon SK,Ahn Y,Kim S,Huh J,Lee DH,Suh C

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), which developed into an overt leukemic phase in a 15-year-old female with a rare constitutional abnormality [46,XX,t(2;11) (q31;p13)]. The patient entered complete remission after 3 months of chemotherapy. On chromosome analysis during remission, the t(2;11) (q31;p1...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Hinoda Y,Itoh H,Takahashi T,Adachi M,Tsujisaki M,Imai K,Yachi A

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the pathogenesis of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), serum levels of neuron-specific enolase (NSE) and cytokine profiles were investigated. Serum concentrations of NSE and several cytokines were measured by immunoassays, and the association was evaluated in 18 HLH patients. Serum NSE levels incre...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Honda K,Ohga S,Takada H,Nomura A,Ohshima K,Kinukawa N,Mizuno Y,Hara T

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 12- to 14-kDa eosinophil major basic protein (MBP) is primarily translated as 25-kDa pro-MBP. HL-60, a promyelocytic leukemia cell line, produces pro-MBP but not MBP, suggesting production of pro-MBP by immature granulocytes. We measured the serum levels of total MBP, using an ELISA that detects both pro-MBP and M...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Mukai HY,Ninomiya H,Nagasawa T,Abe T

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant methylation in promoter-associated CpG islands has been recognized as a major mechanism for tumor suppressor gene silencing in several malignancies. We determined the methylation status of nine tumor suppressor genes in 68 newly diagnosed MM patients by methylation-specific PCR. The frequency of promoter hype...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Braggio E,Maiolino A,Gouveia ME,Magalhães R,Souto Filho JT,Garnica M,Nucci M,Renault IZ

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Initial treatment with androgen (metenolone acetate) alone for 19 weeks had no effect in a 45-year-old Japanese female with refractory anemia (RA). The patient achieved trilineage hematologic recovery after addition of recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) and recombinant human erythropoietin...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Katayama Y,Kojima K,Omoto E,Harada M

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 68-year-old female was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML-M2 without 8/21 translocation) in December 2006. Although a complete remission (CR) was obtained after induction chemotherapy, the first post-remission therapy was discontinued because of severe cardiovascular complications. She had a relapse of AML w...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Tsunemine H,Akasaka H,Sakane EI,Ito K,Kodaka T,Takahashi T

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both stem cells and progenitor cells are present in umbilical cord blood (UCB) at a high frequency, making these cells a major target population for experimental and clinical studies. As the use of autologous or allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in the treatment of various diseases has grown rapidly i...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Lee MW,Jang IK,Yoo KH,Sung KW,Koo HH

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rosai-Dorfman disease (RDD) or "sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy" is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder of unknown etiology. The disease usually presents with painless lymphadenopathy with occasional extranodal involvement in various organs. We report a case of a 36-year-old man with a history of non-...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Konca C,Özkurt ZN,Deger M,Akı Z,Yağcı M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We retrospectively investigated increases in large granular lymphocytes (LGL) in peripheral blood during dasatinib treatment in 25 chronic myelogenous leukemia patients. Fifteen of 25 patients (60 %) showed an increase in LGL. All 15 of these patients also showed an increase in NK cells, and 11 showed an increase in C...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Tanaka H,Nakashima S,Usuda M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) has been shown to induce the differentiation of CD34(+) cells toward dendritic cells (DCs). We have previously shown that DCs are co-generated from human CD34(+) cells during erythroid or megakaryocytic differentiation in the presence of TNF-alpha, and those DCs are able to stim...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Saito Y,Guo YM,Hirokawa M,Saito K,Komatsuda A,Takahashi N,Fujishima M,Fujishima N,Yamashita J,Sawada K

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeostasis of the hematopoietic system has its roots in the maintenance of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in the bone marrow (BM). HSCs change both phenotypically and functionally with physiological age. The alterations noted in aged HSCs are thought to be a consequence of both cell-intrinsic and extrinsic changes. ...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Nakamura-Ishizu A,Suda T

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a patient with refractory multiple myeloma who showed a good response to a combination therapy with oral melphalan, dexamethasone, and thalidomide (MDT). A 48-year-old woman with myeloma refractory to thalidomide, dexamethasone, and clarithromycin received 6 mg melphalan for 4 days every 6 weeks in combinat...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Asou N,Izuno Y,Okubo T,Ide K,Ueno H,Kawakita M,Mitsuya H,Hata H

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic atrial fibrillation (AF) has often been associated with systemic embolization, and patients with mitral stenosis (MS) have the highest thromboembolic risk. Increased risk of thromboembolism could be in part due to impaired fibrinolytic function. Global fibrinolytic capacity (GFC) is an innovative technique for...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Atalar E,Ozmen F,Haznedaroğlu I,Ozer N,Aksöyek S,Ovünç K,Nazli N,Kirazli S,Kes S

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The changes of the FVIII binding capacity of vWF after the infusion of FVIII/vWF concentrate was studied in two patients with type 2N vWD, and also during pregnancy in one of them. After infusion of FVIII or DDAVP to the patients, FVIII:C in plasma increased as expected, but it then decreased, with a markedly short ha...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Nishino M,Nishino S,Sugimoto M,Shibata M,Tsuji S,Yoshioka A

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is a rare subtype of malignant lymphoma in Japan, and there are few reports of HL in Japan in recent years. We retrospectively analyzed the clinical features of 139 patients with HL who were diagnosed and treated at our institution between 1997 and 2011. The median age at diagnosis was 34 years w...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Makita S,Maruyama D,Maeshima AM,Taniguchi H,Miyamoto K,Kitahara H,Fukuhara S,Munakata W,Kobayashi Y,Itami J,Tobinai K

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied a 29-year-old Japanese male patient with factor XI deficiency; we also studied his parents and one sibling. Factor XI coagulation activity and antigen levels were extremely low (less than 1% of normal level) in both the patient and his brother, and they were half the normal levels in both parents. Sequence ...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Kawaguchi T,Koga S,Hongo H,Komiyama Y,Li K,Ishihara S,Horikawa K,Hidaka M,Mitsuya H,Nakakuma H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-dose melphalan followed by autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (ASCT) is a standard treatment for younger myeloma patients. However, the correlation between its toxicity and renal impairment is not clear. We analyzed this relationship, focusing on estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) as an i...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Tamaki M,Nakasone H,Gomyo A,Hayakawa J,Akahoshi Y,Harada N,Kusuda M,Ishihara Y,Kawamura K,Tanihara A,Sato M,Terasako-Saito K,Kameda K,Wada H,Kikuchi M,Kimura SI,Kako S,Kanda Y

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) conditions appear to be the best possible candidates for a gene therapy approach. Transgene expression by lymphocyte precursors should confer to these cells a selective growth advantage that gives rise to long-lived T-lymphocytes. This rationale was used as a basis for a clinica...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Hacein-Bey-Abina S,Fischer A,Cavazzana-Calvo M

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravascular large B-cell lymphoma (IVLBCL) is a rare subtype of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). It commonly presents with a variety of symptoms due to occlusion of small vessels by tumor cells in different organ systems. Clinically patients may present with generalized symptoms such as fever and malaise. In w...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Yin W,Li M,Gao Z,Huang F,Da J,Liu C

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferritin, composed of H-subunits and L-subunits, plays important roles in iron storage and in the control of intracellular iron distribution. Synthesis of both subunits is controlled by common cytoplasmic proteins, iron regulatory proteins (IRP-1 and IRP-2) that bind to the iron-responsive element (IRE) in the 5'-untr...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Kato J,Niitsu Y

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 67-year-old female was referred to our hospital with a sternal fracture in March 2008. She received a diagnosis of multiple myeloma (MM) BJP-κ type (ISS stage III). G-banding karyotype revealed 46, XX, t(11;22)(q23.3;q11.2) (Hubacek, Gene 592:193-9, 2016), which was later confirmed to be congenital. After repeated r...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Suzuki R,Warita T,Nakamura Y,Kitamura Y,Aoyama Y,Ogawa Y,Kawada H,Ando K

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00