A retrospective analysis of thirty-one cases of plasma cell leukemia from a single center in China.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our aim is to determine comorbidities associated with pulmonary hypertension (PHT) in clinically stable sickle-cell disease (SCD) patients and to evaluate left ventricular (LV) and right ventricular (RV) function in those patients. METHODS:Echocardiography was performed in 87 SCD patients that were divided ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Akgül F,Yalçin F,Seyfeli E,Uçar E,Karazincir S,Balci A,Gali E

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma samples from patients with disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) associated with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) exhibited higher levels of the D-fragment of fibrin and fibrinogen degradation products [FDP(D)], with relatively lower levels of cross-linked fibrin degradation products (XDP), than sample...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Okajima K,Koga S,Okabe H,Inoue M,Takatsuki K

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Red cell glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is an X-chromosomal-linked abnormality often associated with hemolytic anemia. The G6PD variants obtained from 2 unrelated males, one associated with enzyme deficiency and history of hemolytic jaundice, and the other associated with enzyme deficiency but no ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Sáenz GF,Chaves M,Berrantes A,Elizondo J,Montero AG,Yoshida A

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of steroid-resistant acquired pure red-cell aplasia associated with a relative and absolute increase of TG cells is described. Removal of T cells enhanced erythroid colony and burst formation in vitro, and it is suggested that TG cells may be implicated in the pathogenesis of this case of acquired pure red-cell...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Linch DC,Cawley JC,MacDonald SM,Masters G,Roberts BE,Antonis AH,Waters AK,Sieff C,Lydyard PM

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) are widely used in the setting of dose-intensive chemotherapies in patients with multiple myeloma (MM). Although the granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), following chemotherapy or not, is considered the standard growth factor for mobilizing PBSC, the optimal chemotherapeuti...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Petrucci MT,Avvisati G,La Verde G,De Fabritiis P,Ribersani M,Palumbo G,De Felice L,Rusignuolo A,Simone F,Meloni G,Mandelli F

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of acquired haemophilia A presenting with extensive spontaneous bruising and anaemia is reported. The anaemia was due to myelodysplastic syndrome (FAB: refractory anaemia with ringed sideroblasts). A factor-VII:C-specific inhibitor was also found. Prednisone and pyridoxine were given, and the inhibitor became u...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Lin CK,Liang R,Liu HW,Tse PW,Chan GT

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marginal-zone B cells of the mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) are the normal counterpart of the neoplastic cells in MALT lymphoma. In both cases these lymphocytes express surface immunoglobulins, but are negative when stained for B cell associated antigens like CD10 and CD23. Furthermore, the B cell gene rearr...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Fritscher-Ravens A,Petrasch S,Tiemann M,Wacker H,Dörr T,Kemmeries G,Hilgers W,Reinacher-Schick A,Kunstmann E,Schmiegel W

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deficiency in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) is the most common enzymopathy, and more than 125 different mutations causing G6PD deficiency have been identified. Chronic haemolytic anaemia (CHA) associated with G6PD deficiency is rare, but there is a cluster of mutations causing CHA between amino acids 361-42...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Hundsdoerfer P,Vetter B,Kulozik AE

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 27-year-old male developed massive generalized lymphadenopathy with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) presenting as extramedullary blast crisis mimicking a lymphocytic lymphoma. On presentation, a consistent chromosomal abnormality involving chromosomes 8 and 13, i.e. 46,XY,t(8;13) (q11;p11), was present in lym...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Rao PH,Cesarman G,Coleman M,Acaron S,Verma RS

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA) combined with anthracyclines is currently the standard treatment for acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). In elderly patients the presence of comorbidities, such as cardiomyopathy or different organ failures, often represents an absolute contraindication to standard chemotherapy. In this ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Finizio O,Pezzullo L,Rocco S,Bene L,De Rosa C,Nunziata GR,Mettivier V

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-dose gammaglobulin therapy for patients with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), introduced by Imbach et al., was applied to 5 adults with chronic refractory ITP to investigate the mechanism of the increase in platelet counts. In 4 of the 5 cases, transient increase in platelet count was observed. Platelet...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Kurata Y,Tsubakio T,Yonezawa T,Tarui S

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eltrombopag is a thrombopoietin receptor agonist frequently used to manage immune thrombocytopenia and aplastic anemia. At the high doses used for aplastic anemia, but not the doses used for immune thrombocytopenia, eltrombopag can cause reddish-brown discoloration of plasma, which can interfere with bilirubin measure...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Al-Samkari H,Goodarzi K

更新日期：2020-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We have demonstrated that hemopoietic organ fibroblastoid cells can produce colony-stimulating activity (CSA) in vitro. Skin fibroblasts also produced CSA. The colonies which formed were restricted to the granulocyte/macrophage differentiation pathways. A linear relationship was obtained for granulocyte/macrophage col...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Brockbank KG,van Peer CM

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase was investigated in normal and leukemia leukocytes. Enzyme activity was positively correlated with the proportion of mature neutrophils and monocytes. In isolated leukocytes from patients with acute myeloid leukemia low values were obtained compared to controls. ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Hultberg B,Sjögren U

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient with lung cancer who developed CD56-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia. He was referred to our hospital for thrombocytopenia. Atypical cells were found in the blood and the bone marrow. These cells were immunophenotypically positive for CD3epsilon, CD56, and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Matano S,Terahata S,Nakamura S,Kobayashi K,Sugimoto T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypersensitivity vasculitis occurs in response to various exogenous agents. A case of a serum sickness syndrome with cutaneous vasculitis is described in a patient given an intravenous iron-dextran infusion. ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Bielory L

更新日期：1990-01-01 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 evaluated an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for embryonic zeta-globin chains as a routine screening test for (--(SEA)) alpha-thalassemia deletion (SEA deletion). A total of 174 consecutive patient samples with a request for Hb analysis were recruited. The ELISA method was evaluated against a polymerase c...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Ma SK,Ma V,Chan AY,Chan LC,Chui DH

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have demonstrated the log normality of the distribution of sheep rosette-forming cells and mouse rosette-forming cells' values obtained with lymphocytes isolated from the peripheral blood of 135 healthy human beings and 57 patients suffering from chronic lymphocytic leukemia and well differentiated lymphocytic lymp...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Beaumariage ML,Focan C

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A diester lipase activity is described in human red blood cells (RBC). Diester lipase activity acts as a membrane-bound enzyme and is assayed using intact RBC as the enzyme source. An emulsion of di-[3H]-oleoylglycerol (0.6 mM) serves as the substrate. The optimum pH for the reaction is 7.8 at 37 degrees C. Lipolytic ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Somma C,Arnaud J,Boyer J

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombopoietin levels in thrombocytopenic mice assayed by 75Se-se-lenomethionine incorporation into blood platelets reached a maximum 12 h after the induction of an acute, immune thrombocytopenia; that was more than twice the value in control mice. The implications of this finding are discussed with reference to the k...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Nakeff A,Roozendaal KJ

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration accompanying Hodgkin's disease were treated with plasma exchange in combination with chemotherapy or radiation therapy, respectively. Significant improvement in neurologic symptoms was obtained in 1 of them. ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Cehreli C,Payzin B,Undar B,Yilmaz U,Alakavuklar MN

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a dose titration study we tested the efficacy and tolerance of recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) in 10 patients with myelodysplasia (MDS) and 2 patients with idiopathic myelofibrosis. Patients with a haemoglobin level < 100 g/l were treated as out-patients for 12 weeks with daily doses ranging from 30 U/kg b...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Mohr B,Herrmann R,Huhn D

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serological and biochemical studies were performed on M components isolated from 3 patients with transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder (TCC). All were IgG1(K) proteins. 2 of the 3 belonged to the VKI subgroup, and these 2 also possessed cross-reactive idiotypic determinants. These findings are consistent ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Pick AI,Wang AC,Frohlichman R,Fudenberg HH

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Essential thrombocythemia (ET), one of the chronic myeloproliferative disorders, is a clonal disorder of multipotent stem cells. Although most patients with ET have a prolonged benign course, a minority of patients may develop a blastic crisis similar to chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). A case of ET terminating in ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Shibata K,Shimamoto Y,Suga K,Sano M,Matsuzaki M,Yamaguchi M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dilution in the circulating blood of lymphocytes lablled in vitro with 3H-cytidine was examined after autotransfusion in 9 patients with Hodgkin's disease (HD) stage II A-IV B, 5 of whom were untreated; in 2 untreated patients with carcinoma, and in 1 treated patient with scleroderma. The blood transit time of exc...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Schick P,Trepel F,Eder M,Matzner M,Benedek S,Theml H,Kaboth W,Begemann H,Fliedner TM

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While sickle cell disease (SCD) is generally mild in most Kuwaitis, because of their elevated fetal Hb levels, avascular necrosis of the femoral head (AVNFH) appears to be a common complication. It was recently documented in 26.7% of Kuwaiti children with SCD. There have, however, been no previous studies of adult pat...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Marouf R,Gupta R,Haider MZ,Al-Wazzan H,Adekile AD

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：:The presence of the sickle cell (Hb S) gene in Saudi Arabia was first reported by Lehmann et al. in 1963 [Nature 198, pp. 492-493]. Later, Hb S, alpha- and beta-thalassaemia, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency and other enzymopathies were shown to occur at a variable prevalence in different regions of the co...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： el-Hazmi MA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and confirmatory immunoprecipitation tests, sera from 640 Nigerians from Lagos and Cross River States were examined for antibodies against HIV. These comprised 570 blood donors and their family members, 56 patients with various haematological conditions and 14 patients w...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Okpara RA,Akinsete I,Williams EE,Schneider J,Wendler I,Hunsmann G

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00