Concurrent detection of minimal residual disease (MRD) in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia by flow cytometry and real-time PCR.

abstract：:Allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) after a reduced-intensity conditioning (RIC) regimen with fludarabine, melphalan and alemtuzmab is an effective therapy for haematological malignancies. Alemtuzumab, a monoclonal antibody against CD52, a glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchor-bound surface protei...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Woelfinger P,Epp K,Schaefer L,Kriege D,Theobald M,Bopp T,Wagner-Drouet EM

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic ITP is due to antibody-induced destruction of platelets by the reticuloendothelial (RE) system. The role of complement in this process is unclear. We measured platelet-associated complement (PAC) components C3, C3bi, C4 and C9 in 16 patients with chronic ITP, in two of these patients prior to and after splenec...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kurata Y,Curd JG,Tamerius JD,McMillan R

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review article acknowledges the pioneering contribution of William Bate Hardy in shaping the concept of mast cell heterogeneity. In two outstanding papers, published in 1894 and 1895, he focussed on the 'wandering cells' (the modern leucocytes) in different mammalian species and distinguished two types of granula...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Crivellato E,Ribatti D

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rearrangements of the retinoblastoma (RB) gene have been reported in a few cases of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). In addition, low or absent expression of the RB protein is found in 20-30% of cases of acute myeloid leukaemias (AML), particularly in AML with a monocytic component (M4 or M5). We performed Southern bl...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Preudhomme C,Vachee A,Lepelley P,Vanrumbeke M,Zandecki M,Quesnel B,Cosson A,Fenaux P

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient myeloproliferative disorder (TMD) of the newborn and acute megakaryoblastic leukaemia (AMKL) in children with Down syndrome (DS) represent paradigmatic models of leukaemogenesis. Chromosome 21 gene dosage effects and truncating mutations of the X-chromosomal transcription factor GATA1 synergize to trigger TM...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Haemmerling S,Behnisch W,Doerks T,Korbel JO,Bork P,Moog U,Hentze S,Grasshoff U,Bonin M,Rieß O,Janssen JW,Jauch A,Bartram CR,Reinhardt D,Koch KA,Bandapalli OR,Kulozik AE

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was hypothesized that contact between chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) B-cells and marrow stromal cells impact both cell types. To test this hypothesis, we utilized a long-term primary culture system from bone biopsies that reliably generates a mesenchymal stem cell (MSC). Co-culture of MSC with CLL B-cells prot...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ding W,Nowakowski GS,Knox TR,Boysen JC,Maas ML,Schwager SM,Wu W,Wellik LE,Dietz AB,Ghosh AK,Secreto CR,Medina KL,Shanafelt TD,Zent CS,Call TG,Kay NE

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limited therapies exist for patients with refractory and relapsed (RR) higher-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (HR-MDS) and acute myeloid leukaemia with trilineage dysplasia (AML-TD). High dose (HD) lenalidomide (50 mg) has activity as frontline therapy in elderly AML but there is limited data in the RR setting. This ph...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Zeidan AM,Smith BD,Carraway HE,Gojo I,DeZern A,Gore SD

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We retrospectively analysed 71 cases of Unicentric Castleman disease, a rare, usually asymptomatic, benign lymphoproliferative disorder presenting as a unique nodal mass. Although surgery is considered as the gold standard therapy, only 38 patients (54%) underwent initial surgical resection and 95% were cured. An addi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Boutboul D,Fadlallah J,Chawki S,Fieschi C,Malphettes M,Dossier A,Gérard L,Mordant P,Meignin V,Oksenhendler E,Galicier L

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-associated coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is primarily manifested as a respiratory tract infection, but may affect and cause complications in multiple organ systems (cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, kidneys, haematopoietic and immune systems), whil...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kastritis E,Wechalekar A,Schönland S,Sanchorawala V,Merlini G,Palladini G,Minnema M,Roussel M,Jaccard A,Hegenbart U,Kumar S,Cibeira MT,Blade J,Dimopoulos MA

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive procedures can be performed safely in children with haemophilia due to the availability of factor VIII/IX for patients without inhibitors. Most guidelines are based on the experiences in adults, but still there is no established consensus on the optimal factor levels or duration of replacement therapy for adu...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ljung RC,Knobe K

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor VIII (FVIII) inhibitors appear in 3-20% of haemophilia A patients after injection of FVIII concentrates. However, autoantibodies to FVIII are also reported in non-haemophiliacs. In these patients FVIII inhibitor disappears spontaneously or diminishes in response to immunosuppressive therapy. However, a few pati...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sunagawa T,Uezu Y,Kadena K,Tokuyama K,Kinjo F,Saito A

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the positron emission tomography (PET) era, traditional prognostic factors may not apply for patients with relapsed/refractory (R/R) diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) undergoing autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT). Moreover, little is known about prognostic factors in patients transplanted for transform...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Armand P,Welch S,Kim HT,LaCasce AS,Jacobsen ED,Davids MS,Jacobson C,Fisher DC,Brown JR,Coughlin E,Freedman AS,Chen YB

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new alpha thalassemia defect has been detected in the South African population. Restriction mapping of the alpha globin gene cluster in affected individuals has established that the defect is associated with the removal of 22.8-23.7 kb of DNA, including the psi zeta 1, psi alpha 1, psi alpha 2, alpha 2 and alpha 1 g...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Vandenplas S,Higgs DR,Nicholls RD,Bester AJ,Mathew CG

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred and twenty-six patients were diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), according to the French-American-British (FAB) criteria, over a 13-year period, and studied retrospectively in a single institution in order to study indicators which were prognostically significant. Analysis of clinical and labora...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cunningham I,MacCallum SJ,Nicholls MD,Byth K,Hewson JW,Arnold B,Motum PI,Mulligan SP,Crane GG

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kidney iron deposition measured by R2* (magnetic resonance imaging) MRI is posited to result from tubular reabsorption of filtered haemoglobin due to intravascular haemolysis. In chronically transfused sickle cell disease (SCD), R2* is elevated and positively correlated with lactate dehydrogenase (LDH). To account for...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Denton CC,Detterich JA,Coates TD,Wood JC

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The very poor outcome of invasive fungal infections (IFI) in patients with haematological malignancies or recipients of haematopoietic stem cell transplantation is largely attributed to their compromised host defence mechanisms. The restoration or augmentation of immune responses in these patients is now considered as...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Antachopoulos C,Roilides E

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines are a family of over 40 small (8 kDa) related proteins with the function of moving cells along a chemotactic gradient, either to organise cells within an organ or to facilitate the movement of leucocytes around the body. Mouse models have implicated the importance of the chemokine CXCL12 in haematopoiesis a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Laurence AD

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence, clinical associations and pathogenic role of newly identified autoantibodies to the erythropoietin receptor (EPOR) in patients with anaemia were investigated. Sera from 203 patients with immune-related or chronic kidney diseases were screened for anti-EPOR antibodies by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assa...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hara A,Furuichi K,Higuchi M,Iwata Y,Sakai N,Kaneko S,Wada T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied 61 patients who underwent allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) for chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) in first chronic phase. Minimal residual disease was detected by the amplification of the leukaemia-specific BCR-ABL fusion mRNA with the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using a highly sensitive n...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cross NC,Hughes TP,Feng L,O'Shea P,Bungey J,Marks DI,Ferrant A,Martiat P,Goldman JM

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using Southern blot, the restriction digests of genomic DNAs in 11 patients with Glanzmann thrombasthenia from 10 unrelated kindreds were probed with a full-length GPIIb cDNA. An additional 2.3 kb Taq I fragment and two 1.65 kb and 0.65 kb fragments with reduced band intensity were found in the genes of two affected s...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gu JM,Xu WF,Wang XD,Wu QY,Chi CW,Ruan CG

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated trisomy 8 (+8) is a frequent cytogenetic abnormality in the myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), but its characteristics are poorly reported. We performed a retrospective study of 138 MDS patients with isolated +8, classified or reclassified as MDS (excluding MDS/myeloproliferative neoplasm). Myeloproliferative (...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Drevon L,Marceau A,Maarek O,Cuccuini W,Clappier E,Eclache V,Cluzeau T,Richez V,Berkaoui I,Dimicoli-Salazar S,Bidet A,Vial JP,Park S,Vieira Dos Santos C,Kaphan E,Berthon C,Stamatoullas A,Delhommeau F,Abermil N,Braun

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA-based method was developed to genotype donors for the human platelet antigens HPA-1a and -1b. Sequence-specific primers (SSP) were used in the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) which allowed the HPA-1a/1a, -1b/1b and -1a/1b genotypes to be determined by PCR alone, no second analytical stage was required. 10 donors...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Metcalfe P,Waters AH

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to clarify the mechanism of the effect of erythropoietin (Epo) on the fetal haemoglobin (HbF) phenotype of peripheral erythrocytes, we studied the dose-response effect of Epo on HbF production by erythroid precursors derived from the peripheral blood of normal adult individuals and grown in a two-phase liquid...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Fibach E,Schechter AN,Noguchi CT,Rodgers GP

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations into the nature of the molecular interactions mediating the recognition of the haemopoietic progenitor cells by the haemopoietic stroma, indicate that ubiquitin mediates the binding between murine haemopoietic progenitors and the haemopoietic stroma. The adhesion of haemopoietic progenitors to anti-ubiq...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Parakh KA,Kannan K

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The F5 G1691A (Factor V Leiden) and F2 G20210A (prothrombin) mutations are linked to an increase in the incidence rate of venous thromboembolism (VTE), but their effects are highly variable. We investigated whether the effects of smoking and obesity might explain this variability. In a case-cohort study including the ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Severinsen MT,Overvad K,Johnsen SP,Dethlefsen C,Madsen PH,Tjønneland A,Kristensen SR

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of acquired CALR mutations in patients with essential thrombocythaemia (ET) or myelofibrosis (MF) has meant that disease-initiating mutations can now be detected in about 90% of all patients with a myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN). Here, we show that only those CALR mutations that cause a +1 frames...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Martin S,Wright CM,Scott LM

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the morphological appearances of the bone marrow and peripheral blood, 43 patients with dysmyelopoietic syndromes were categorized into four types: refractory anaemia with excess of blasts, chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia, primary acquired sideroblastic anaemia and refractory anaemia with cellular marrow, wi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cazzola M,Barosi G,Berzuini C,Dacco M,Orlandi E,Stefanelli M,Ascari E

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have evaluated the function of granulocytes in 14 patients suffering from myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). We also evaluated the functional and immunochemical activities of five monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) reactive with the CD11/CD18 leucocyte adhesion molecules of granulocytes. Granulocytes showed a decrease in c...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mazzone A,Ricevuti G,Pasotti D,Fossati G,Mazzucchelli I,Cavigliano P,Notario A

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of complementary RNA molecules of junctional regions of rearranged T-cell-receptor-gamma genes show a pattern of conformational polymorphisms which is specific for an individual lymphocytic clone. In a blinded study we analysed formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded histological specimens from gastrointestinal lym...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Koch OM,Probst M,Tiemann M,Jakob I,Volkenandt M,Wienecke R,Buer J,Atzpodien J,Lenz HJ,Danenberg PV

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two unrelated cases of congenital dyserythropoietic anaemia (CDA) are described. They show striking similarities which could not be attributed to one of the well-known types of CDA or any other congenital disease of the erythroid system. Both patients were followed for many years before and after splenectomy. There wa...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bethlenfalvay NC,Hadnagy C,Heimpel H

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00