Severe prekallikrein deficiency associated with homozygosity for an Arg94Stop nonsense mutation.

abstract：:The recent advent of an improved commercial serum enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the detection of circulating galactomannan (GM), a major constituent of Aspergillus cell walls, has contributed to the diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis (IA) in many haematology and transplant centres. However, the optima...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Maertens J,Theunissen K,Verbeken E,Lagrou K,Verhaegen J,Boogaerts M,Eldere JV

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The determinants of steady state haemoglobin levels in sickle cell-haemoglobin C (SC) disease were investigated by measuring routine haematological and biochemical indices, red cell survival, oxygen affinity, pitted erythrocytes, and red cell and plasma volumes in 31 adult patients (15 male; 16 female). Red cell survi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bannerman RM,Serjeant B,Seakins M,England JM,Serjeant GR

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelets from patients with platelet-type von Willebrand disease (vWD) were used as immunogens for the production of murine monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs). One such MoAb, C-34, inhibited ristocetin-induced aggregation of patient or normal platelets, but not aggregation induced by other aggregating agents. As demonstra...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Miller JL,Hustad KO,Kupinski JM,Lyle VA,Kunicki TJ

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoid (GC) effects are mediated by the glucocorticoid receptor (GR). Several studies have demonstrated that a lower number of receptors per cell were associated with poor GC response. The regulation of GR expression is complex; the levels of GR can be autologously regulated by its ligand and also by transcrip...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sánchez-Vega B,Gandhi V

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with idiopathic anaemias associated with abnormal sideroblasts were defined according to morphologic and ferrokinetic criteria and the haematologic and biochemical effects of vitamin B6 therapy were evaluated. While all patients presented similar clinical pictures, peripheral blood changes and bone marrow abn...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Solomon LR,Hillman RS

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of indolent B-chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (B-CLL) in a stage A patient, treated for 10 years only by theophylline for bronchial asthma. As suggested by the spontaneous apoptosis in the patient's blood (10%), theophylline at 50 micrograms/ml increased spontaneous apoptosis after 72 h in culture by a ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mentz F,Merle-Beral H,Ouaaz F,Binet JL

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction endonuclease analysis has been performed on the alpha and beta globin gene clusters of 57 Cypriots homozygous for beta thalassaemia, 30 with the transfusion dependent form of the condition (thalassaemia major) and 27 who are less severely affected (thalassaemia intermedia). There was a significant differen...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Wainscoat JS,Kanavakis E,Wood WG,Letsky EA,Huehns ER,Marsh GW,Higgs DR,Clegg JB,Weatherall DJ

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of autoimmune diseases, including Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), suggest failure of the normal immune regulatory processes leading to activation and expansion of autoreactive effector immune cells. Recently, stem cell transplantation emerged as a novel rescue therapy for a variety of refractory autoimmune dise...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cipriani P,Ruscitti P,Giacomelli R

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have suggested the HoxA10, HoxA11 and HoxD11 homeobox genes as candidate loci for the thrombocytopenia with absent radius (TAR) syndrome. For example, targeted disruptions of these Hox genes result in abnormal development of the mouse radius, while overexpression of HoxA10 stimulates mouse megakaryocyte...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Fleischman RA,Letestu R,Mi X,Stevens D,Winters J,Debili N,Vainchenker W

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of soluble CD9 antigen released into spent medium from bone marrow (BM) cells were assayed using a unique enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. We demonstrated that a considerable amount of soluble CD9 antigen was consistently detected in the spent medium from CD9+ leukaemic blasts, but little from normal or r...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Komada Y,Zhang SL,Zhou YW,Shibata T,Azuma E,Sakurai M

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In studies on human platelets, nitroprusside (NP) alone at 1-10 micromol/l increased platelet cyclic AMP (cAMP) by 40-70%, whereas increases in cyclic GMP (cGMP) were much larger in percentage though not in concentration terms. Collagen enhanced these increases in cAMP up to fourfold, without affecting cGMP. This effe...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Jang EK,Azzam JE,Dickinson NT,Davidson MM,Haslam RJ

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of acquired sideroblastic anaemia precipitated by progesterone. On two separate occasions, over 15 years apart, the patient developed sideroblastic anaemia with iron overload shortly after the administration of progesterone. No other cause for sideroblastic anaemia was found, and treatment with folic ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Brodsky RA,Hasegawa S,Fibach E,Dunbar CE,Young NS,Rodgers GP

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient who was treated with recombinant (r)-hirudin for heparin-induced thrombocytopenia and developed a flush reaction twice upon re-exposure to 25 mg of subcutaneous r-hirudin. Antihirudin IgG antibodies developed. The patient received 50 mg of PEG-hirudin subcutaneously over 2 days. No side-effects occ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Harenberg J,Hoffmann U,Huhle G,Song XH,Wang LC

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombotic events are common in patients with multiple myeloma (MM), smouldering myeloma (SM) and monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS). Previous studies have indicated platelet hyperactivation as a feature of thrombotic risk in MM, but there is a dearth of data in MGUS. In the present study, multi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： O'Sullivan LR,Meade-Murphy G,Gilligan OM,Mykytiv V,Young PW,Cahill MR

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven children (age range 1.8-11 years) with juvenile chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia (JCML) received an allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT), four from an HLA-identical sibling and three from a matched unrelated donor. In the four children transplanted using an HLA-identical sibling, conditioning regimen inc...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Locatelli F,Pession A,Comoli P,Bonetti F,Giorgiani G,Zecca M,Taibi RM,Mongini ME,Ambroselli F,de Stefano P,Severi F,Paolucci G

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-thymocyte globulins (ATG) are currently used to prevent graft-versus-host disease in haematopoietic stem cell transplants from alternative donors and to treat and prevent acute organ rejection after transplantation. Many recent studies have demonstrated that ATG can also be beneficial in patients with myeloma, ly...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Polito L,Bortolotti M,Farini V,Pedrazzi M,Tazzari PL,Bolognesi A

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reducing infectious morbidity is an important goal to improve childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) survival. To explore the impact of chemotherapy reduction on infectious morbidity, we compared outpatient and inpatient infectious morbidity of reduced versus intensive (conventional) chemotherapy. One hundred a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： van Tilburg CM,Sanders EA,Nibbelke EE,Pieters R,Revesz T,Westers P,Wolfs TF,Bierings MB

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-seven normal donors underwent leukapheresis for peripheral blood progenitor cell collection beginning on day 4 (n = 45) or day 5 (n = 32) of filgrastim mobilization (12 micrograms/kg/d). The two groups were comparable for age, weight, blood volumes processed during leukapheresis and target CD34+ cell dose to b...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Anderlini P,Przepiorka D,Huh Y,Lauppe J,Miller P,Sundberg J,Seong D,Champlin R,Körbling M

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients with probable congenital erythrocytosis were studied to determine the role of erythropoietin (ESF) in their disease. In addition, haemoglobin function was measured and ESF excretion determined in response to reduction in the haemoglobin concentration. In two cases ESF excretion was clearly elevated abov...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Whitcomb WH,Peschle C,Moore M,Nitschke R,Adamson JW

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) have been used increasingly for haemopoietic reconstitution after marrow-ablative chemotherapy in patients with acute leukaemia because of the possibility that there is a lower risk of leukaemic contamination. We have developed a titration assay using a competitive reverse transcript...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Miyamoto T,Nagafuji K,Harada M,Eto T,Fujisaki T,Kubota A,Akashi K,Mizuno S,Takenaka K,Kanaji T

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minor histocompatibility antigens (mHAs) are major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-associated peptides, which trigger T-cell responses that mediate graft versus host disease (GVHD) and graft versus leukaemia effects. We recently identified a new mHA epitope, termed ACC-1, which is presented by HLA-A*2402 and encoded ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Nishida T,Akatsuka Y,Morishima Y,Hamajima N,Tsujimura K,Kuzushima K,Kodera Y,Takahashi T

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood stem cell autografts for the treatment of chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) are currently under evaluation. A patient with CML received intensive chemotherapy followed by granulocyte colony-stimulating factor prior to the collection of peripheral blood derived stem cells. He developed unusually severe, ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Clark RE,Lee ES

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chimaerism was studied early (2 weeks to 3 months) during haematopoietic reconstitution after bone marrow transplantation in 18 severe aplastic anaemia patients (acquired SAA: 14 patients; Fanconi anaemia: four patients). Fourteen patients received marrow from an identical sibling donor, one from the phenoidentical fa...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Socié G,Landman J,Gluckman E,Devergie A,Raynal B,Esperou-Bourdeau H,Brison O

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 43-year-old man with chronic myeloid leukaemia underwent a second transplant with CD34+ bone marrow cells selected from his two-loci HLA-mismatched sibling after rejection of the first graft from an HLA-matched unrelated donor. By immunomagnetic positive selection, CD34+ marrow cells at 0.95 x 10(6)/kg with 97% puri...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Fujimori Y,Kanamaru A,Hashimoto N,Okamoto T,Okada M,Kawaguchi K,Mori A,Saheki K,Takatsuka H,Wada H,Takemoto Y,Kohsaki M,Imai N,Kakishita E,Nagai K

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 125 patients aged 65 years or over, with atrial fibrillation taking warfarin for at least 12 months, with a standard deviation (SD) of prothrombin time, expressed as the International Normalized Ratio (INR) >0.5 over the previous 6 months, 40 were randomized to continue with usual clinic care and 85 to receive educ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Khan TI,Kamali F,Kesteven P,Avery P,Wynne H

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous production of carbon monoxide (VCO), red cell survival and iron kinetics were studied in 15 subjects with Hodgkin's disease. The subjects were divided into two groups, namely: eight patients with anaemia (group A, haemoglobin (Hb) concentration less than 11.5 g/dl) and seven patients without anaemia (group ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cavallin-Ståhl E,Mercke C,Lundh B

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuation chemotherapy is a key component of the treatment of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. During this treatment phase, weekly dose adjustments are carried out based on current and historical full blood counts (FBCs). The dose decision pathway is complex and suboptimal therapy may result if information ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bury J,Hurt C,Roy A,Cheesman L,Bradburn M,Cross S,Fox J,Saha V

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral T-cell lymphomas (PTCL) have suboptimal outcomes using conventional CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone) chemotherapy. The anti-folate pralatrexate, the first drug approved for patients with relapsed/refractory PTCL, provided a rationale to incorporate it into the front-line setting...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Advani RH,Ansell SM,Lechowicz MJ,Beaven AW,Loberiza F,Carson KR,Evens AM,Foss F,Horwitz S,Pro B,Pinter-Brown LC,Smith SM,Shustov AR,Savage KJ,Vose JM

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two non-anaemic subjects, a father and daughter, with a new form of congenital dyserythropoiesis are reported. The features of their disorder are: (1) an abnormal blood film with basophilic stippling of red cells and oval macrocytes, (2) various dysplastic changes in the erythroblasts, including internuclear chromatin...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Wickramasinghe SN,Spearing RL,Hill GR

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), investigation of minimal residual disease by conventional morphology and immunology fails to detect levels of residual disease of < 1 leukaemic in 10-100 normal cells. The use of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to exploit the diversity of the complementarity determining region (...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Chim JC,Coyle LA,Yaxley JC,Cole-Sinclair MF,Cannell PK,Hoffbrand VA,Foroni L

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00