High efficacy with five days schedule of oral fludarabine phosphate and cyclophosphamide in patients with previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.

abstract：:Iron chelators are increasingly combined clinically but the optimal conditions for cellular iron mobilization and mechanisms of interaction are unclear. Speciation plots for iron(III) binding of paired combinations of the licensed iron chelators desferrioxamine (DFO), deferiprone (DFP) and deferasirox (DFX) suggest co...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Vlachodimitropoulou Koumoutsea E,Garbowski M,Porter J

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an immunocompetent patient with transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), in which chimaerism of peripheral blood lymphocytes was demonstrated by analysis of a highly polymorphic genome. The patient was treated successfully with anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody, OKT3 and cyclosporin A. Although i...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Yasukawa M,Shinozaki F,Hato T,Takada K,Ishii Y,Tamai T,Takamatsu H,Shiobara S,Yoshizaki K,Fujita S

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although individuals with sickle cell anaemia (SCA) have elevated baseline inflammation and endothelial activation, the acute phase response to maximal exercise has not been evaluated among children with SCA. We measured the acute phase response to maximal exercise testing for soluble vascular cell adhesion molecule (...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Liem RI,Onyejekwe K,Olszewski M,Nchekwube C,Zaldivar FP,Radom-Aizik S,Rodeghier MJ,Thompson AA

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No consensus has been obtained about the question whether autoantibodies, in particular antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL), may cause thrombosis by inhibiting thrombomodulin (TM) mediated protein C activation. In order to clarify the mechanism by which autoantibodies inhibit TM-mediated protein C activation, we have sc...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Oosting JD,Preissner KT,Derksen RH,de Groot PG

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe five adult patients with sickle cell anaemia (SS) who developed clinical, radiological and histological evidence of splenic regrowth while receiving regular blood transfusions. Five patients, all homozygous SS, range 23-34 years, were commenced on hypertransfusion therapy. Three patients were transfused be...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Campbell PJ,Olatunji PO,Ryan KE,Davies SC

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：:Two single-nucleotide substitutions in PKLR constituted the molecular basis underlying pyruvate kinase (PK) deficiency in a patient with severe haemolytic anaemia. One novel mutation, IVS5+1G>A, abolished the intron 5 donor splice site. The other mutation, c.1436G>A, altered the intron 10 donor splice site consensus s...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Wijk R,van Wesel AC,Thomas AA,Rijksen G,van Solinge WW

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria in platelet components (PC) may result in transfusion-related sepsis (TRS). Pathogen inactivation of PC with amotosalen (A-PC) can abrogate the risk of TRS and hence facilitate storage to 7 d. A randomized, controlled, double-blinded trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of A-PC stored for 6-7 d was condu...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lozano M,Knutson F,Tardivel R,Cid J,Maymó RM,Löf H,Roddie H,Pelly J,Docherty A,Sherman C,Lin L,Propst M,Corash L,Prowse C

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present work were to identify the initial characteristics associated with long-term survival in chronic granulocytic leukaemia (CGL) and to analyse the accuracy of prognostic models in identifying long-term survivors. 813 Philadelphia (Ph) chromosome-positive, nonblastic CGL patients from six Americ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cervantes F,Robertson JE,Rozman C,Baccarani M,Tura S,Gómez GA,Braun TJ,Clarkson BD,Pereira A

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary hyperferritinaemia cataract syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by heterogeneous mutations of the iron regulatory element (IRE) in the ferritin l-chain mRNA. The mutations are rare and fast DNA scanning would facilitate diagnosis. The aim of the study was to compare the analytical performances...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cremonesi L,Paroni R,Foglieni B,Galbiati S,Fermo I,Soriani N,Belloli S,Ruggeri G,Biasiotto G,Cazzola M,Ferrari F,Ferrari M,Arosio P

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrinogen Chapel Hill II is a hereditary, abnormal fibrinogen which is characterized by poor substrate reactivity toward thrombin, factor XIIIa and plasmin. The patient has a low plasma level of clottable protein with normal antigen concentration, high amounts of fibrinogen related material in serum, and prolonged th...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Carrell N,McDonagh J

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MPLW515L/K and JAK2V617F can co-exist in myelofibrosis with myeloid metaplasia (MMM). The chronology of clonal emergence was studied in three such cases using serially stored bone marrow. At diagnosis, a major MPL515 mutant clone was accompanied by a minor JAK2V617F clone in all three instances. At 25 time points over...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lasho TL,Pardanani A,McClure RF,Mesa RA,Levine RL,Gilliland DG,Tefferi A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a case of chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia (CMML) in whom a complete remission was achieved and sustained 15 months after treatment with 25-OH vitamin D3. No side-effects were observed. Although vitamin D1 has been used in the treatment of myelodysplastic syndromes, to our knowledge this is the f...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mellibovsky L,Díez A,Aubia J,Nogues X,Pérez-Vila E,Serrano S,Recker RR

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of apoptosis (genetically programmed active cell death) by p210 BCR-ABL expression is a mechanism that might contribute to clonal expansion in chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML). Since cell death following exposure to ionizing radiation and many chemotherapeutic agents can occur by the apoptotic pathway, inhib...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Amos TA,Lewis JL,Grand FH,Gooding RP,Goldman JM,Gordon MY

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sézary syndrome and Mycosis fungoides are the most common forms of cutaneous T-cell lymphomas. To assess the response to different therapies especially in Sézary syndrome, it is helpful to monitor the percentage of circulating tumour cells in the blood. The use of T-cell receptor (TCR)-Vbeta specific monoclonal antibo...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Schwab C,Willers J,Niederer E,Ludwig E,Kündig T,Grob P,Burg G,Dummer R

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood from five donors, previously shown to be positive for cytomegalovirus (CMV) DNA following polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification, was filtered through commercially available leucocyte filters. Analysis of pre- and post-filtration samples by PCR with ethidium bromide staining has shown that filtration was ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Smith KL,Cobain T,Dunstan RA

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although expressed in several haematological lineages and involved in multiple different signalling pathways, Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) plays an indispensible role in B cells in signalling from the B cell receptor (BCR) for antigen. Many B cell malignancies remain dependent on constitutive BCR signalling, making BT...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hutchinson CV,Dyer MJ

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The available data on rituximab in combination with chemotherapy confirm that the addition of an independently active biological agent to full-dose standard chemotherapy results in higher rates of complete response, lower rates of relapse, prolonged survival, little additional toxicity and no compromise of the dose in...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Pettengell R,Linch D,Haemato-Oncology Task Force of the British Committee for Standards in Haematology.

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 3q21q26 syndrome leukaemias are characterised by dystrophic megakaryocytes, elevated platelet counts, ectopic EVI1 protein production and poor prognosis. To investigate the molecular basis of this disease, we developed a model system to examine the biological activity of EVI1 in a megakaryocyte progenitor cell lin...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kilbey A,Alzuherri H,McColl J,Calés C,Frampton J,Bartholomew C

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) who relapsed after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) were treated with donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) without prior conditioning. Three patients had previously received a non-T-cell-depleted matched sibling BMT and the fourth had a T-cell-depleted matc...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Atra A,Millar B,Shepherd V,Shankar A,Wilson K,Treleaven J,Pritchard-Jones K,Meller ST,Pinkerton CR

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ph-negative chronic myeloproliferative disorders (CMPD) are characterized by constitutive Janus kinase-signal transducer and activator of transcription (JAK-STAT) activation. SOCS3, SOCS1 and PTPN6 (SHP1) are negative regulators of the JAK-STAT pathway. We investigated epigenetic and genetic inactivation of SOCS3, SOC...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Capello D,Deambrogi C,Rossi D,Lischetti T,Piranda D,Cerri M,Spina V,Rasi S,Gaidano G,Lunghi M

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paediatric recommendations for unfractionated heparin (UFH) management are extrapolated from adult trials, a practice that may contribute to the inferior UFH-related outcomes in children compared to adults. This is the first study to determine UFH concentration in a population of children and correlated UFH concentrat...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Newall F,Ignjatovic V,Johnston L,Summerhayes R,Lane G,Cranswick N,Monagle P

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new gravity filtration technique for the study of sickle cell deformability has shown a significant loss of filterability of oxygenated erythrocytes on day 2 of painful crisis in eight patients with homozygous sickle cell anaemia; there was no increase in irreversibly sickled cell (ISC) count. Serial study (mean of ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lucas GS,Caldwell NM,Stuart J

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T-cell large granular lymphocyte leukaemia (T-LGL) is a clonal disorder of T cells associated with neutropenia and anaemia. The clinical consequences are recurrent infections and transfusion dependence. The optimum treatment for severely affected patients remains to be defined. Current therapies require long-term admi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sternberg A,Eagleton H,Pillai N,Leyden K,Turner S,Pearson D,Littlewood T,Hatton C

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports the characterization of a spontaneous lymphoblastoid cell line (LCL) raised from the peripheral blood of a patient with Kostmann's congenital neutropenia. The LCL was composed of EBV-infected polyclonal B cells and displayed surface markers and pattern of growth in vitro typical of normal LCLs. The ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Corcione A,Roncella S,Cutrona G,Mori PG,Ferrarini M,Pistoia V

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Medical Research Council acute lymphoblastic leukaemia trials (UKALL X and XI) recruited 3,702 children with ALL between January 1985 and March 1997. Seventy-nine children had central nervous system (CNS) involvement in their first two relapses. Fourteen children survived at a median follow-up of 22 months from se...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Morris EC,Harrison G,Bailey CC,Hann IM,Hill FG,Gibson BE,Richards S,Webb DK,Medical Research Council Childhood Leukaemia Working Party.

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Budd-Chiari syndrome and portal vein thrombosis (BCS/PVT) are frequently associated with polycythaemia vera (PV). In an attempt to elucidate the mechanisms of BCS/PVT secondary to PV (T-PV), CD11b neutrophil expression, neutrophil oxidative burst and platelet-neutrophil complexes (PNC) were assessed in 17 such patient...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Alvarez-Larrán A,García-Pagán JC,Abraldes JG,Arellano E,Reverter JC,Bosch J,Cervantes F

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：:We report a patient with congenital homozygous factor V deficiency in whom a large pseudotumour in the right upper leg was successfully surgically excised under continuous substitution with fresh-frozen plasma. ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tanis BC,van der Meer FJ,Bloem RM,Vlasveld LT

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rearrangement of the immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) gene is widely exploited as a marker of B cell lineage and clonality in the pathology of lymphoproliferative disorders. We have developed a simple, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based method for detecting IgH gene rearrangement which relies on the observation tha...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Deane M,Norton JD

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00