Vitamin B12 deficiency, hyperhomocysteinemia and thrombosis: a case and control study.

abstract：:Patients have to discontinue the use of oral iron therapy due to the development of side effects and lack of long-term adherence to medication for iron deficiency anemia. This study aimed to evaluate the therapeutic effectiveness, safety, and cost of intravenous iron sucrose therapy. The computerized database and medi...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Asma S,Boga C,Ozdogu H

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fas stimulation has been reported to promote the activation and proliferation of T lymphocytes, but the intracellular signalling pathways that mediate non-apoptotic responses to Fas are poorly defined. To distinguish between the activation signalling and the death-inducing pathway downstream of Fas, we generated a nov...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Shin MJ,Shim JH,Lee JY,Chae WJ,Lee HK,Morio T,Park JH,Chang EJ,Lee SK

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) is a pleiotropic regulator of all stages of hematopoieis. Depending on the differentiation stage of the target cell, the local environment, and the concentration of TGF-beta, TGF-beta can be proproliferative or antiproliferative, proapoptotic or antiapoptotic, and/or prodiffe...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Ruscetti FW,Bartelmez SH

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rare recurrent translocation of (8;9)(p22;p24) with PCM1-JAK2 fusion was recently characterized in diverse hematological malignancies. Most of them are atypical chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) or other myeloproliferative disorders (MPD), and are predominantly in the male. We report a female patient with acute myelo...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Huang KP,Chase AJ,Cross NCP,Reiter A,Li TY,Wang TF,Chu SC,Lu XY,Li CC,Kao RH

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early thrombocytopenia is a common hematological abnormality in sick neonates. Here, we examined the relationship between early thrombocytopenia in neonates and parameters associated with thrombopoiesis to identify predictive factors at birth. Two hundred and forty-four neonates admitted to the neonatal intensive care...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Kihara H,Ohno N,Karakawa S,Mizoguchi Y,Fukuhara R,Hayashidani M,Nomura S,Nakamura K,Kobayashi M

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognosis of therapy-related myelodysplastic syndrome and acute leukemia (t-MDS/AL) remains poor. We retrospectively analyzed the data of 47 patients (31 AL and 16 MDS) who were treated at our institute. Thirty-three patients received disease-adapted chemotherapy, with a response rate of 73%, while 14 received no ...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Yokoyama H,Mori S,Kobayashi Y,Kurosawa S,Saito B,Fuji S,Maruyama D,Azuma T,Kim SW,Watanabe T,Tanosaki R,Tobinai K,Takaue Y,Fukuda T

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The widespread use of tissue including hematopoietic stem cell products is justification for the development of standards by professional societies and for regulation by governmental agencies. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) developed a tiered, risk-based regulatory model. At the low end of risk to the tissue r...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Rowley SD

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While anti-cancer chemotherapy has improved the survival of patients with hematologic malignancies, it has also exposed such patients to the risk of life-threatening infection due to neutropenia. In intensive chemotherapy for leukemia, invasive aspergillosis resulting in death is infrequently observed. In such cases, ...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Yamada R,Horikawa K,Ishihara S,Hoshino K,Kawaguchi T,Iyama K,Mitsuya H,Asou N

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) constitute a group of phenotypically diverse chronic myeloid malignancies, characterized by clonal hematopoiesis and excessive production of terminally differentiated myeloid blood cells. The MPNs include polycythemia vera (PV), essential thrombocythemia (ET), and primary myelofibro...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Tanaka M,Yujiri T,Ito S,Okayama N,Takahashi T,Shinohara K,Azuno Y,Nawata R,Hinoda Y,Tanizawa Y

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Jejunoileal involvement of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) is an important diagnostic factor in determining optimal treatment strategies. Here, we used double-balloon enteroscopy (DBE) to detect jejunoileal involvement of NHL and studied its clinical significance in a series of patients with NHL. Adults aged between 18 a...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Ibuka T,Tsurumi H,Araki H,Hara T,Onogi F,Goto N,Kojima Y,Kanemura N,Shiraki M,Kasahara S,Shimizu M,Ogawa K,Ninomiya S,Nakanishi T,Kato T,Takami T,Moriwaki H

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal platelet-derived growth factor receptor (PDGFR)-mediated signaling may cause hematologic neoplasm. The PDGFR beta (PDGFRB) gene, located at chromosome band 5q31-33, forms a fusion gene as a result of chromosome translocation. Although patients with PDGFRB rearrangement mostly present with myeloproliferative n...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Shimomura Y,Maruoka H,Ishikawa T

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic fungal infections remain a major clinical problem in immunocompromised patients. Presumed systemic fungal infections (PSFI) are treated empirically with an intravenous antifungal agent to reduce the occurrence of documented infections and associated mortality. The objective of this study was to compare the co...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Moeremans K,Annemans L,Ryu JS,Choe KW,Shine WS

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepcidin, the iron regulatory hormone, has three isoforms; -20, -22 and -25. While hepcidin-25 has been studied extensively, the physiological significance of other isoforms remains poorly understood. Using a quantitative method based on liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-tandem MS) developed by our gr...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Addo L,Ikuta K,Tanaka H,Toki Y,Hatayama M,Yamamoto M,Ito S,Shindo M,Sasaki Y,Shimonaka Y,Fujiya M,Kohgo Y

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is characterized by t(15;17)(q22;q21), which results in the fusion of the promyelocytic leukemia (PML) gene at 15q22 with the retinoic acid alpha-receptor (RARA) at 17q21. We report a patient with APL carrying a new complex variant translocation (5;17;15;20). Spectral karyotyping ana...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Yamanouchi J,Hato T,Niiya T,Miyoshi K,Azuma T,Sakai I,Yasukawa M

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac dysfunction due to transfusional iron overload is one of the most critical complications for patients with transfusion-dependent hematological disorders. Clinical parameters such as total red blood cell (RBC) transfusion units and serum ferritin level are usually considered as indicators for initiation of iron...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Sakuta J,Ito Y,Kimura Y,Park J,Tokuuye K,Ohyashiki K

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is a highly heterogeneous disease with an unpredictable pattern. CVID appears to have an immunologic and clinical phenotype similar to some hereditary humoral immunodeficiencies, including X-linked lymphoproliferative disease (XLP). The differential diagnosis of CVID and XLP is ...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Aghamohammadi A,Kanegane H,Moein M,Farhoudi A,Pourpak Z,Movahedi M,Gharagozlou M,Zargar AA,Miyawaki T

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the efficacy and safety of switching to nilotinib in CML-CP patients who had achieved MMR with continuous detectable BCR-ABL1 transcript levels after long-term imatinib treatment. Patients who had achieved MMR, but not deep molecular response (DMR), after > 18 months from the initiation of imatinib receiv...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Ishikawa J,Matsumura I,Kawaguchi T,Kuroda J,Nakamae H,Miyamoto T,Matsuoka KI,Shibayama H,Hino M,Hirase C,Kamimura T,Shimose T,Akashi K,Kanakura Y

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetic resistance is assumed to be one of the main mechanisms of drug resistance in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), but the relationship between cell cycle status at diagnosis and achievement of complete remission (CR) is controversial. Based on the possibility that the cell cycle data after starting induction chemothe...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Kamikubo KH,Ogata K,An E,Dan K

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe 3 unrelated Japanese patients with familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) due to a compound heterozygous E148Q/M694I mutation in the MEFV gene. The first patient is a 38-year-old man who also has chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). Because genomic DNA analysis of the patient's nail revealed the E148Q/M694I mut...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Kotone-Miyahara Y,Takaori-Kondo A,Fukunaga K,Goto M,Hayashino Y,Miki M,Takayama H,Sasada M,Uchiyama T

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent reports of myelodysplastic syndrome/acute myeloid leukemia (t-MDS/AML) developing after treatment with immunosuppressants and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) has raised the question of whether previously unrecognized myelodysplastic features had been present or whether actual transformation had oc...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Bessho F,Imashuku S,Hibi S,Tsuchida M,Nakahata T,Miyazaki S,Kojima S,Tsukimoto I,Hamajima N,Pediatric AA Follow-up Study Group in Japan.

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dyskeratosis congenita (DC) is an inherited disease associated with nail dystrophy, abnormal skin pigmentation, oral leukoplakia, bone marrow failure and a predisposition to cancer. DC is a disease of defective telomere maintenance and patients with DC have very short telomeres. To date, mutations in six genes of telo...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Nishio N,Kojima S

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfusion is believed to be the main cause of iron overload in Japan. A nationwide survey on post-transfusional iron overload subsequently led to the establishment of guidelines for iron chelation therapy in this country. To date, however, detailed clinical information on the entire iron overload population in Japan...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Ikuta K,Hatayama M,Addo L,Toki Y,Sasaki K,Tatsumi Y,Hattori A,Kato A,Kato K,Hayashi H,Suzuki T,Kobune M,Tsutsui M,Gotoh A,Aota Y,Matsuura M,Hamada Y,Tokuda T,Komatsu N,Kohgo Y

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The wild-type Wilms tumor gene, WT1, is overexpressed in myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) as well as acute myeloid leukemia. In a phase I clinical trial of biweekly vaccination with HLA-A*2402-restricted WT1 peptide for these malignancies, 2 patients with MDS developed severe leukocytopenia in association with a reducti...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Kawakami M,Oka Y,Tsuboi A,Harada Y,Elisseeva OA,Furukawa Y,Tsukaguchi M,Shirakata T,Nishida S,Nakajima H,Morita S,Sakamoto J,Kawase I,Oji Y,Sugiyama H

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) has greatly improved the outcome of human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) infection and disease. We report here on a case of an HIV-1-seropositive patient with acute myelogenous leukemia who underwent a successful allogeneic unrelated bone marrow ...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Oka Y,Tashiro H,Mizutani-Noguchi M,Koga I,Sugao T,Shirasaki R,Miura T,Akiyama N,Kawasugi K,Fujimori S,Shirafuji N

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Home care has become a treatment option for cancer patients; however, medical practice at patients' homes has been expected mainly for terminal care in Japan. Most physicians believe that it is difficult to treat patients with hematologic malignancy at home because they frequently develop complications requiring urgen...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Kodama Y,Kami M,Yuji K,Kuboya M,Komatsu T

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although immunosuppressive therapy using antithymocyte globulin or cyclosporine A (CSA) is effective in selected patients with low-risk myelodysplastic syndrome, the response rates reported so far are inconsistent, and the indication of immunosuppressive therapy for myelodysplastic syndrome has not been clearly define...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Ishikawa T,Tohyama K,Nakao S,Yoshida Y,Teramura M,Motoji T,Takatoku M,Kurokawa M,Mitani K,Uchiyama T,Omine M

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 12- to 14-kDa eosinophil major basic protein (MBP) is primarily translated as 25-kDa pro-MBP. HL-60, a promyelocytic leukemia cell line, produces pro-MBP but not MBP, suggesting production of pro-MBP by immature granulocytes. We measured the serum levels of total MBP, using an ELISA that detects both pro-MBP and M...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Mukai HY,Ninomiya H,Nagasawa T,Abe T

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient with acute monocytic leukemia (AMoL; M5) who received a second bone marrow transplantation (BMT) with graft-versus-leukemia (GVL) effect on relapsed leukemia cutis, which had been refractory to intensive chemotherapy and donor lymphocyte transfusions (DLTs). A 21-year-old woman was diagnosed with A...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Ashida T,Kawanishi K,Ariyama T,Hamasaki H,Maeda Y,Tsubaki K,Kanamaru A

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two patients with primary cardiac malignant lymphoma involving the right atrium and superior vena cava, resulting in intractable right cardiac failure and superior vena cava syndrome. Patients were diagnosed by surgical myocardial biopsy and were treated with combination chemotherapy for non-Hodgkin's lymp...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Enomoto S,Abo T,Sugawara T,Ishida Y,Murai K,Itoh S,Kuriya S

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies have demonstrated that microRNA-21 (miR-21), as an oncogene, is involved in the occurrence of many types of tumor and the sensitivity of tumor cells to chemotherapeutic drugs. In the present study, we investigated whether miR-21 is involved in regulating the sensitivity of the diffuse large B-cell lym...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Bai H,Wei J,Deng C,Yang X,Wang C,Xu R

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00