Phenytoin-induced agranulocytosis: a nonimmunologic idiosyncratic reaction?

abstract：:This paper reports the bone marrow histological picture in 7 patients with hairy cell leukemia treated with recombinant interferon. Bone marrow biopsies were performed at diagnosis, after 1, 3 and 7 months from the beginning of treatment and at 12 months at treatment suspension. The main modifications observed were a ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Lambertenghi-Deliliers G,Benazzi E,Cortelezzi A,Polli EE

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Downregulation of apoptosis has been proposed as a mechanism of clonal expansion in low-grade B cell neoplasms. We have previously described an unusual case of CD5+ B cell lymphoma characterized by cycles of leukemic phase alternating with spontaneous remission. In the present study, we examined the involvement of apo...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Aizman I,Many A,Peller S,Ramot B,Kaufmann Y

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a stem cell malignancy that originates in the bone marrow and involves the peripheral blood. Extramedullary AML is rarer, but it is most commonly associated with the former French-American-British (FAB) subtypes M4 or M5 of AML. AML cells may also home to the central nervous system and ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Patel SA,Bledsoe JR,Gordon J,Cerny J

更新日期：2020-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulation factor VIII inhibitor arising in a patient with autoimmune disease was immunologically analyzed. A 63-year-old man who had been diagnosed as suffering from polyarteritis nodosa was treated with prednisolone for 10 years. Severe bleeding tendency developed and coagulation studies demonstrated a high titer o...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Okamura T,Yamauchi Y,Fukuda T,Suehiro K,Murakawa M,Shibuya T,Nagasawa K,Harada M,Niho Y

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We aimed to determine the effects of intravenous iron therapy on blood parameters in pediatric patients who do not tolerate oral iron therapy for any reason. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The patient group consisted of candidates for elective operations requiring blood transfusions in order to raise hemoglobin (Hb) c...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Akarsu S,Taskin E,Yilmaz E,Yilmaz H,Kilic M,Aygun AD

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal aberrations in a case of atypic myeloproliferative syndrome are reported. The analysis was carried out on short-term cultures of sternal bone marrow with the ASG and fluorescence method. 90% of the metaphases studied showed pseudoliploidy: one of the chromosomes 12 was missing and one submedian marker chro...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Fleischmann T,Krizsa F

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum IgG, IgM and IgA were determined in 25 patients with homozygous beta thalassemia and 7 with the trait. The levels were increased in homozygous patients and increased further after splenectomy. Serum opsonic activity against Salmonella typhi and staphylococci was impaired in homozygous patients. Splenectomy cause...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Khalifa AS,Fattah SA,Maged Z,Sabry F,Mohamed HA

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene therapy targeting hematopoietic cells has arrived at a new stage of potency. While the potential for curing inherited disorders of the immune system has been demonstrated in clinical trials, we were also confronted with the first serious adverse events related to random insertion of foreign DNA into cellular chro...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Baum C,von Kalle C

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most common single genetic disorder and a major public health issue in Greece and other Mediterranean countries is beta-thalassemia. Current therapeutic approaches for homozygous beta-thalassemia entail blood transfusions and iron chelation therapy with deferoxamine or deferiprone for preventing tissue hemosideros...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Chaidos A,Makis A,Hatzimichael E,Tsiara S,Gouva M,Tzouvara E,Bourantas KL

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the case of a woman undergoing treatment with acenocoumarol for deep vein thrombosis, who maintained an international normalized ratio (INR) of between 2.5 and 4 for 2 months. Seven days after the introduction of amoxycillin (500 mg/8 h) for a probable respiratory infection, the patient developed spontaneou...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Soto J,Sacristan JA,Alsar MJ,Fernandez-Viadero C,Verduga R

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection and enumeration of sideroblasts depend critically on the method used for iron staining of bone marrow smears. Several methods proposed for semiquantitative evaluation of bone marrow hemosiderin (iron stores) were compared with respect to their suitability for detection of normal and abnormal sideroblasts...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Baumgartner-Stäubli R,Beck EA

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two family members (daughter and mother) with a bleeding disorder showed prolonged bleeding time and activated partial thromboplastin time associated with decreased plasma levels of factor VIII procoagulant activity, factor VIII-related antigen, and factor VIII-ristocetin cofactor activity. The ristocetin-induced plat...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Niiya K,Kubonishi I,Taguchi H,Miyoshi I

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with acute monoblastic leukemia developed a coagulopathy during chemotherapy. Coagulation studies showed thrombocytopenia, hypofibrinogenemia, high levels of fibrinogen degradation products, a negative protemine test but a normal antithrombin III level. These observations suggest that coagulation abnormaliti...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Vellenga E,Mulder NH

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the effect of prophylactic treatment with antithymocyte globulin (ATG) on graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) in myeloablative transplant patients, we performed a meta-analysis of randomized and cohort studies. Medline, Embase, the Cochrane Controlled Trial Register and the Science Citation Index were searched ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Sheng Z,Ma H,Pang W,Niu S,Xu J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 59-year-old man with beta-thalassaemia major is unusually well. He has no beta-chains in his haemoglobin but is heterozygous for the genes responsible for alphaA and for alphaG Philadelphia. In addition he is also heterozygous for the genes responsible for gammaF and a new gamma-chain, gamma75(E19) Ile-Thr, named ga...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Grifoni V,Kamuzora H,Lehmann H,Charlesworth D

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Chlorodeoxyadenosine (cladribine, Leustatin) is being used extensively in the treatment of hematologic malignancies, but relatively little is known regarding its toxicity to the normal marrow. Long-term serial hematologic observations have been made on 29 patients with multiple sclerosis undergoing experimental ther...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Beutler E,Koziol JA,McMillan R,Sipe JC,Romine JS,Carrera CJ

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a patient with recurrence of Hodgkin's disease and severe liver disease of unknown origin in whom autoimmune neutropenia developed. Because of possible seronegative viral hepatitis he was treated with high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin instead of steroids. He responded with a prompt but transitory increa...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Schoengen A,Fembacher PM,Schulz PC

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:Alpha-thalassemia is very common in the Kuwaiti population, but its influence on anemia of pregnancy has not been previously investigated. We have screened a group of 59 anemic (Hb < 11 g/dl) pregnant women for the alpha-thal-2 (-alpha-3.7 kb) deletion which is the commonest alpha-thal allele in this community, using ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Diejomaoh FM,Haider MZ,Dalal H,Abdulaziz A,D'Souza TM,Adekile AD

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:It was found that neutrophils in untreated uraemic patients as well as in subjects on regular dialysis treatment displayed higher activity of acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase and peroxidase. Spontaneous reduction of nitro blue tetrazolium (NBT) by granulocytes was also higher in both groups in comparison to cont...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Sutowicz W,Komorowska Z,Hanicki Z,Cichocki T,Smoleński O

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) is an interferon (IFN)-induced molecule with apoptotic activity. We examined gene mutations in the death domains of TRAIL receptor 1 (TRAIL-R1) and TRAIL receptor 2 (TRAIL-R2), and in the TRAIL gene promoter in 46 chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) patien...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Liu LG,Tanaka H,Ito K,Ito T,Sultana TA,Kyo T,Kimura A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is unusual to find microorganisms in peripheral blood smears, and their presence is frequently associated with overwhelming sepsis and consequently a poor prognosis. In this report, we demonstrate 4 cases with bacteria in blood smears. Two of them had a fatal outcome, but the other 2 were caused by a contamination ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： van der Meer W,Verwiel JM,Gidding CE,de Metz M,de Keijzer MH

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To review the diagnostic significance, safety and possible risk factors of splenectomy in fever of unknown origin (FUO) with splenomegaly. METHODS:The records of 54 patients with FUO and splenomegaly who underwent splenectomy in our hospital in the past 20 years were reviewed retrospectively. Pathologic find...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Han B,Yang Z,Yang T,Gao W,Sang X,Zhao Y,Shen T

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case with the clinical and pathological impression of Ph1-positive chronic myelogenous leukemia in extramedullary blast crisis involving lymph nodes as demonstrated by morphological and cytogenetic studies. The hyperploid cell lines that were present in the lymph node were not present in the bone marrow. ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Velasquez ET,Verma RS,Krishnamurthy M,Dosik H

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three consecutive patients considered to have end-stage acquired aplastic anaemia were given 100-160 mg/kg antilymphocyte globulin (ALG) i.v. followed by an infusion of 2-3.8 x 10(8) nucleated marrow cells/kg i.v. from HL-A one haplotype-identical, MLC-positive family donors. All patients showed autologous marrow reco...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Jeannet M,Speck B,Rubinstein A,Pelet B,Wyss M,Kummer H

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At diagnosis, clonal gene rearrangement probes [retinoic acid receptor (RAR)-alpha, major breakpoint cluster region (M-bcr), immunoglobulin (Ig)-JH, T cell receptor (TcR)-beta, myeloid lymphoid leukemia (MLL) or cytokine genes (GM-CSF, G-CSF, IL-3)] were detected in bone marrow samples from 71 of 153 patients with acu...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Schmetzer HM,Braun S,Wiesner D,Duell T,Gerhartz HH,Mittermueller J

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemochromatosis has generally been considered to be a genetic disease in which progressive iron accumulation over many years can lead to cirrhosis of the liver, hepatocellular carcinoma, diabetes, cardiomyopathy, and arthropathy. Iron depletion by phlebotomy has been the recommended therapy although a randomized trial...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Adams PC

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticosteroid hormones have been reported either to stimulate or to inhibit human erythropoiesis. We have studied the in vitro effect of hydrocortisone, 10(-6) mol/l, on human BFU-E when stimulated by preconstituted burst-promoting activity (BPA) in a medium conditioned by T lymphocytes. Hydrocortisone was found...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Morra L,Ponassi A,Moccia F,Mela GS,Ponassi I,Bessone G

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 83 children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) the immunological phenotype of the lymphoblasts was determined using E rosetting, monoclonal anti-T cell sera, surface immunoglobulin staining and common ALL antiserum. The data were compared with acid alpha-naphthyl acetate esterase (ANAE) and acid phosphatase (...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Veerman AJ,Huismans DR,van Zantwijk CH

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00