Two cases of ampulla (takotsubo-shaped) cardiomyopathy associated with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Reticulated platelets circulating in the blood reflect megakaryopoietic activity and platelet turnover and can be automatically and low-invasively measured as the immature platelet fraction (IPF) using a Sysmex XN hematocytometer. The present study retrospectively investigated whether or not the IPF can pred...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Takami A,Mizuno S,Nakamura A,Kanasugi J,Yamamoto H,Vu Quang L,Nakagami Y,Nakano Y,Yamada S,Matsumura S,Takasugi S,Uchino K,Horio T,Murakami S,Oohigashi Y,Nakayama T,Tani H,Enomoto M,Hanamura I

更新日期：2020-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal liver transplantation was attempted in 7 patients with aplastic anemia. 4 of these patients showed a partial response as evidenced by decrease in blood transfusion requirements and increase in the peripheral blood counts and hematopoietic cells in the bone marrow. Bone marrow culture studies revealed evidence of...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Kansal V,Sood SK,Batra AK,Adhar G,Malviya AK,Kucheria K,Balakrishnan K

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurologic complications of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT) include infections, cerebrovascular events, therapy-induced neurotoxicity, recurrent malignancies, and neurologic manifestations of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Anti-glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) antibody-associated cerebella...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Shargian-Alon L,Raanani P,Rozovski U,Siegal T,Yust-Katz S,Yeshurun M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 77-year-old woman presented to the outpatient hematology clinic in August 2001 with leukocytosis, recurrent bacterial infections, sweating and weight loss. Bone marrow biopsy showed 80% infiltration with lymphoid cells having a prolymphocytic morphology. Flow-cytometric immunophenotype analysis showed that over 80% ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Zver S,Kokalj Vokac N,Zagradisnik B,Erjavec A,Zagorac A,Zupan IP,Cernelc P

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual complication of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is reported. The patient, a 79-year-old man, had a long standing history of CLL, that had been complicated by the development of a Guillain-Barré-like syndrome and a peripheral biclonal gammopathy. The biclonal immunoglobulins identified in the serum were I...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Ruiz P,Moezzi M,Chamizo W,Ganjei P,Whitcomb CC,Rey LC

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 26-year-old female with Ki-1-positive large-cell anaplastic lymphoma is reported. The neoplastic cells were phenotypically and genotypically of T cell origin. Initially, neoplastic cells invaded the skin and lymph nodes, and then invaded the sternal and vertebral bones, ribs and the iliopsoas muscle. Central nervous...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Tsukamoto N,Morita K,Maehara T,Mitsuhashi M,Karasawa M,Murakami H,Omine M,Naruse T,Yatabe H

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2003, oral fludarabine was introduced in the USA for the treatment of patients with hematologic malignancies as an alternative to its intravenous (i.v.) formulation; in 2008, it was introduced in México while the i.v. formulation was withdrawn. Accordingly, i.v. fludarabine had to be replaced by oral flud...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Velázquez-Sánchez-de-Cima S,Zamora-Ortiz G,Hernández-Reyes J,Rosales-Durón AD,González-Ramírez MP,Martagón-Herrera NA,Ruiz-Delgado GJ,Ruiz-Argüelles GJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 14 adult patients presenting with fever and cytopenia of the peripheral blood and histiocytic hyperplasia with hemophagocytosis (HHH) in the bone marrow regarding an association of cytomegalovirus (CMV) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) by using in situ hybridization (ISH) and also evaluated the clinical and lab...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Han K,Kim Y,Kahng J,Lee J,Moon Y,Kang C,Shim S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Danaparoid sodium and synthetic protease inhibitors (SPIs) have been approved for the treatment of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) in Japan. OBJECTIVES:To compare the clinical results of the treatment of DIC with danaparoid or SPIs. METHODS:We retrospectively examined 188 patients with hematol...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Minakata D,Fujiwara SI,Hayakawa J,Nakasone H,Ikeda T,Kawaguchi SI,Toda Y,Ito S,Ochi SI,Nagayama T,Mashima K,Umino K,Nakano H,Yamasaki R,Morita K,Kawasaki Y,Sugimoto M,Ishihara Y,Yamamoto C,Ashizawa M,Hatano K,Sa

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet functions were evaluated in 20 healthy pregnant women in the last months of pregnancy, during labor, and 5-12 weeks after labor. The results showed an increased platelet count, bleeding time and nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT) test, as well as an increased plasma calcium level postlabor. ADP- and epinephrine-indu...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Sagi A,Creter D,Goldman J,Djaldetti M

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we investigated the inhibitory natural killer cell receptor (NKR) expression of CD94/NKG2A on PBMC after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT). The proportion of CD94 expression on PBMC was higher in patients without chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) and also in cGVHD patients with...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Tanaka J,Tutumi Y,Zhang L,Mori A,Kahata K,Toyoshima N,Ohta S,Kobayashi S,Hashino S,Asaka M,Imamura M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased levels of hemoglobin A(2) (HbA(2)) are present in most beta-thalassemia carriers. The mechanism of this effect is not understood, although the increase may result from transcriptional and posttranscriptional changes. In the present study, we quantitate delta-globin mRNA levels in peripheral-blood-enriched re...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Huang SZ,Zeng FY,Chen MJ,Ren ZR,Shen M,Rodgers GP,Schechter AN,Zeng YT

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia is unsatisfactory in adults due to disease and patient-related factors and probably because adult chemotherapy regimens are weaker than pediatric protocols. Worries about inadequacy of adult regimens urged many hematologists, including us, to reconsider their routine treatment...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Buyukasik Y,Acar K,Kelkitli E,Uz B,Serefhanoglu S,Ozdemir E,Pamukcuoglu M,Atay H,Bektas O,Sucak GT,Turgut M,Aksu S,Yagci M,Sayınalp N,Ozcebe OI,Goker H,Haznedaroglu IC

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Tumour necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) down-regulation by preferentially expressed antigen of melanoma (PRAME) is a general phenomenon in different types of solid tumours, but research on the correlation between PRAME and TRAIL gene expression in leukaemia patients is rare. METHO...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Zhang W,Chi K,Zhang Y,Ma B,Shi J,Chen Y,Lei P,Li Y,Sun K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of methylprednisolone on fresh cells from patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) has been studied using the differential staining cytotoxicity (DiSC) assay resulting in LC90s of < or = 0.2 to 2,000 micrograms/ml. Cells from previously treated patients were, on average, significantly more sensitiv...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Bosanquet AG,McCann SR,Crotty GM,Mills MJ,Catovsky D

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with sickle cell disease have an increased tendency to develop frequent and severe pyogenic infections. Lymphocyte subpopulations were studied in 14 patients with homozygous sickle cell anaemia (SCA) using the OKT monoclonal antibody. The mean absolute lymphocyte counts observed in patients with SCA were simi...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Adedeji MO

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Janus kinases are critical components of signaling pathways that regulate hematopoiesis. Mutations of the non-receptor tyrosine kinase JAK2 are found in many BCR-ABL-negative myeloproliferative neoplasms. Preclinical results support that JAK2 inhibitors could show efficacy in treating chronic myeloproliferative neopla...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Ringel F,Kaeda J,Schwarz M,Oberender C,Grille P,Dörken B,Marque F,Manley PW,Radimerski T,le Coutre P

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 28-year-old woman with Bence-Jones multiple myeloma (MM) presented with several osteolytic lesions and a massive bone marrow infiltration with mature plasmocytes. After 6 cycles of chemotherapy with melphalan and prednisone, the patient, in apparent clinical remission, underwent allogeneic bone marrow transplantatio...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Gallamini A,Buffa F,Bacigalupo A,Van Lint MT,Peralvo J,Pittaluga PA,Occhini D,Marmont AM

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary lymphoma of the female genital tract is very rare. We report the case of a 36-year-old woman who was referred to our hospital because of an indeterminate Pap smear test. The colposcopy showed a thickening of the posterior vaginal wall and various irregular ulcerated nodular lesions. Histological examination, i...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Guastafierro S,Tedeschi A,Criscuolo C,Celentano M,Cobellis L,Rossiello R,Falcone U

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first thrombocytopenia cases related to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were described even before its isolation in 1983. Subsequently, multiple mechanisms have been proposed to elucidate the etiology of thrombocytopenia. In addition to other types of cytopenia affecting patients with HIV, thrombocytopenia ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Passos AM,Treitinger A,Spada C

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac scintigraphy has been performed in 60 beta-thalassaemia major patients aged 8-35 years who received regular blood transfusions and subcutaneous desferrioxamine (DFX) chelation. Fifty-seven showed no clinical, radiological or electrocardiographic evidence of heart disease and 3 had clinically apparent cardiac f...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Aldouri MA,Wonke B,Hoffbrand AV,Flynn DM,Ward SE,Agnew JE,Hilson AJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extensive bone marrow necrosis and symptomatic hypercalcemia have been described independently as rare complications of chronic myeloid leukemia. Here we report a 66-year-old man who developed B cell blastic transformation 10 years after diagnosis of CML in the chronic phase. Extensive bone marrow necrosis and symptom...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Noguchi M,Oshimi K

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-risk patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are inclined to long-term accumulation of iron in the organs due mostly to red blood cell transfusion and ineffective erythropoiesis. The effect of free toxic iron species in the liver and heart sites is well known, but recent knowledge assumes that oxidant-mediat...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Pilo F,Caocci G,Mele G,La Nasa G

更新日期：2020-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The present report describes a patient with polycythemia vera who developed a severe arterial and venous thrombosis caused by systemically administered heparin. An immunologic implication has been proposed as pathophysiological mechanism of this heparin-associated thrombocytopenia and thrombosis syndrome. It is sugges...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Garcia S,Cervero A,Sanchez M,Colomina P

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), refractory anaemia with excess blasts in transformation, in whom complete remission (CR) was achieved with the administration of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF). The 76-year-old patient was admitted to our hospital with a fever and a productive cou...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Kondo H,Kasahara Y,Mori A

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In evaluating hypoimmunoglobulinemia in a patient with nonsecretory myeloma, studies of in vitro immunoglobulin synthesis were performed during a 3-year period. Impaired polyclonal response to mitogen stimulation associated with excessive suppressor activity was demonstrable at diagnosis. Despite successful chemothera...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Shustik C,Michel R,Karsh J

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the identification of an Hb S homozygosity in a 29-year-old multiple-transfused patient with severe kidney disease using a new reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) technique with mRNA as starting template. The procedure requires considerably less time than sequencing of genomic DNA and is...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Smetanina NS,Gu LH,Leonova JYe,Huisman TH

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypercalcemia in malignancies is a frequent complication, mostly affecting patients with solid tumors or multiple myeloma. Calcium elevation is induced by direct bone infiltration of a tumor mass or through calcium liberation from the skeleton by a humoral mediator. The latter mechanism is referred to as humoral hyper...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Kampfenkel T,Baraniskin A,Teschendorf C,Schmiegel W,Massenkeil G

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe an unusual case of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) complicated by subclavian artery occlusion in a 32-year-old man with severe aplastic anemia, who underwent allogeneic stem cell transplantation. He was severely neutropenic after the conditioning for transplantation, but he had no history of fungal ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Hashino S,Imamura M,Tanaka J,Mori A,Noto S,Kobayashi S,Kasai M,Asaka M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family with hereditary ovalocytosis (HO) is described. The probands, 2 brothers, had splenic rupture after modest trauma as preenting symptoms. 7 members of the family had HO. The sister of the pobands had a moderately enlarged spleen. The other members proved normal on routine clinical examination. ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Kjellman B,Larsson C,Tibblin E

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00