Guidelines for the management of mature T-cell and NK-cell neoplasms (excluding cutaneous T-cell lymphoma).

abstract：:Clofarabine was the latest new drug to be approved, in 2004, for relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). To investigate its value in the frontline treatment of ALL we applied clofarabine 5 × 40 mg/m(2) in combination with pegylated asparaginase (PEG-ASP) 1 × 2500 iu/m(2) in high risk ALL patients a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Escherich G,Zur Stadt U,Zimmermann M,Horstmann MA,CoALL study group.

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The haematological and immunological characteristics of 34 healthy anti-HTLV-I antibody-positive individuals (HTLV-I carriers) in southwestern Japan were examined. No significant difference was noted between carriers and the controls in counts of RBC, WBC and the absolute number of lymphocytes. The serum IgG in the ca...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Yasuda K,Sei Y,Yokoyama MM,Tanaka K,Hara A

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minimal (i.e. submicroscopic) residual disease (MRD) predicts outcome in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). To be used clinically, MRD assays must be reliable and accurate. Two well-established techniques, flow cytometry (FC) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR), can detect leukaemic cells with a sensitivit...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kerst G,Kreyenberg H,Roth C,Well C,Dietz K,Coustan-Smith E,Campana D,Koscielniak E,Niemeyer C,Schlegel PG,Müller I,Niethammer D,Bader P

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythroid regeneration is an important and separate element in the engraftment process in allogeneic and autologous bone marrow transplantation (alloBMT, autoBMT). Qualitative visual reticulocyte counting has proved inadequate in the evaluation of erythropoiesis after BMT but automated flow cytometry now allows the re...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Davies SV,Cavill I,Bentley N,Fegan CD,Poynton CH,Whittaker JA

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proviral copy (PVC) number in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals was measured by a quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay to determine over time the relation between the viral load and the evolution towards the disease in HIV-infected p...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lefrère JJ,Mariotti M,Wattel E,Lefrère F,Inchauspe G,Costagliola D,Prince A

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay was used to detect human parvovirus B19 DNA in 38 blood products and start plasma pools from five different manufacturers. The products examined were albumin, factor VIII, intravenous (i.v.) and intramuscular (i.m) immunoglobulin batches. The majority of pools from all the man...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Saldanha J,Minor P

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serial study of coagulation activation and whole-blood viscosity was performed on 37 patients with local or systemic bacterial infection, malaria, or a viral infection. Thrombocytopenia, without consumption of coagulation factors, was the main feature of benign tertian malaria and viral infection, whereas in septica...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Richardson SG,Matthews KB,Cruickshank JK,Geddes AM,Stuart J

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) occurring in a patient with untreated chronic lymphatic leukaemia (CLL) is presented. The diagnosis of two simultaneous leukaemic processes is based on morphological, cytochemical and immunological findings. The significance of the development of AML in patients with CLL is disc...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lawlor E,McCann SR,Whelan A,Greally J,Temperley IJ

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of the molecular basis of the beta-thalassaemias and sickle cell disease (SCD) has made it clear that patients with the same beta-globin genotypes can have very variable patterns of clinical expression. Extensive biochemical and pathophysiological studies over the last 50 years have derived two major mo...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Thein SL

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to clarify the effect of human T cell leukaemia virus type I (HTLV-I) infection on virus-specific CD8+ cytotoxic T cells, a herpes simplex virus-specific CD8+ cytotoxic T cell clone was infected with HTLV-I in vitro. The cytotoxic activity of the clone was found to have declined early after HTLV-I infecti...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Inatsuki A,Yasukawa M,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane glycoprotein (GP) Ia/IIa mediates platelet adhesion to collagen. The linked C807T/G873A polymorphisms in the GP Ia gene are correlated with a variable expression of the platelet surface receptor, the 807 TT/873 AA genotype being associated with a higher receptor density. Our study aimed to evaluate the possib...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Casorelli I,De Stefano V,Leone AM,Chiusolo P,Burzotta F,Paciaroni K,Rossi E,Andreotti F,Leone G,Maseri A

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are no accepted methods to predict the development of platelet transfusion refractoriness (PTR) due to human leucocyte antigen (HLA)-alloimmunization. Hence, matched platelets are usually given only to patients demonstrating PTR, necessarily resulting in some ineffective random donor platelets (RDPLT) transfusio...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Beligaswatte A,Tsiopelas E,Humphreys I,Bennett G,Robinson K,Davis K,Bardy P

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews the use of aberrant antigen expression detected by flow cytometry in the diagnosis and clinical handling of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) and the myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Such aberrancies offer a valuable tool for the proper classification of these myeloid malignancies according the World ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ossenkoppele GJ,van de Loosdrecht AA,Schuurhuis GJ

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Karyotypic analysis was performed in a total of 69 patients with well-characterized idiopathic myelofibrosis. Karyotypic abnormalities were detected in 46% of cases examined during the chronic phase (29/63); with three abnormalities, del(13q), del(20q) and partial trisomy 1q, accounting for 75% of all abnormalities at...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Reilly JT,Wilson G,Barnett D,Watmore A,Potter A

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The organelle pathology of neutrophils in chronic granulocytic leukaemia (CGL) was investigated by analytical subcellular fractionation. There were minor reductions in activity of some granule enzymes with an abnormal distribution in sucrose density gradients of the specific granules. There was a marked reduction of 5...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Rustin GJ,Peters TJ

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory (LTLS) and clinical (CTLS) tumour lysis syndrome (TLS) are frequent complications in newly diagnosed children with advanced mature B cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (B-NHL). Rasburicase, compared to allopurinol, results in more rapid reduction of uric acid in paediatric patients at risk for TLS. However, the safe...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Galardy PJ,Hochberg J,Perkins SL,Harrison L,Goldman S,Cairo MS

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both atypical haemolytic uraemic syndrome (aHUS) and the HELLP syndrome (haemolytic anaemia, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelets) are thrombotic microangiopathies characterized by microvascular endothelial activation, cell injury and thrombosis. aHUS is a disease of complement dysregulation, specifically a gain ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Fang CJ,Richards A,Liszewski MK,Kavanagh D,Atkinson JP

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bcl-2 gene is rearranged in most cases of follicular lymphoma and the breakpoint clusters into two specific regions: mbr and mcr. Rearrangements to immunoglobulin heavy chain genes (IgH) result in a deregulation of the gene and increased transcription of mRNA for the bcl-2 protein. In chronic lymphocytic leukaemia...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Merup M,Spasokoukotskaja T,Einhorn S,Smith CI,Gahrton G,Juliusson G

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelofibrosis with myeloid metaplasia (MMM) is uniquely characterized by macroscopic bone marrow stromal changes that are believed to be both reactive and cytokine mediated. Furthermore, a prognostically detrimental increase in bone marrow angiogenesis has recently been demonstrated. These observations suggest a poten...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Elliott MA,Mesa RA,Li CY,Hook CC,Ansell SM,Levitt RM,Geyer SM,Tefferi A

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a murine model to determine the impact of donor lymphocyte subsets on the incidence of primary marrow graft failure after transplantation of lymphocyte-depleted bone marrow. After lethal irradiation with 7.5 Gy, Balb/c mice received 1 x 10(5) to 4 x 10(7) GvH-nonreactive (C57 x Balb)F1 or GvH-reactive C57Bl/6 ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Uharek L,Glass B,Gaska T,Gassmann W,Loeffler H,Mueller-Ruchholtz W

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is an aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma with a poor prognosis following first relapse. We present a subgroup analysis of an open-label phase II trial investigating the efficacy and safety of lenalidomide in patients with relapsed or refractory MCL. Oral lenalidomide 25 mg was self-administered...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Habermann TM,Lossos IS,Justice G,Vose JM,Wiernik PH,McBride K,Wride K,Ervin-Haynes A,Takeshita K,Pietronigro D,Zeldis JB,Tuscano JM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) survivors are at increased risk for developing congestive heart failure (CHF), primarily due to pre-HCT exposure to anthracyclines. We examined the association between the development of CHF after HCT and polymorphisms in 16 candidate genes involved in anthracycline metabolism...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Armenian SH,Ding Y,Mills G,Sun C,Venkataraman K,Wong FL,Neuhausen SL,Senitzer D,Wang S,Forman SJ,Bhatia S

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polo-like kinases (Plks) play an important role in cell cycle checkpoint controls and are over-expressed in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). BI 2536, a novel Plk inhibitor, induces mitotic arrest and apoptosis. In this phase I/II trial of BI 2536 in 68 elderly patients with relapsed/refractory AML, three schedules were ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Müller-Tidow C,Bug G,Lübbert M,Krämer A,Krauter J,Valent P,Nachbaur D,Berdel WE,Ottmann OG,Fritsch H,Munzert G,Garin-Chesa P,Fleischer F,Taube T,Döhner H

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two patients with acute leukaemia who received emetogenic cytotoxic drugs and were on therapeutic doses of sodium valproate for epilepsy. Neither patient reported significant nausea nor vomited at any time during the chemotherapy, at times requiring no anti-emetic treatment whatsoever. We suggest that this a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Aiken TC,Collin RC

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the kinetics of colony formation by progenitor cells in chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) using erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E) as a model system. For this, we scored the numbers of subcolonies produced by individual BFU-E in cultures of normal marrow and blood cells and in cultures of CML blo...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Marley SB,Lewis JL,Goldman JM,Gordon MY

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous trials, the orally active iron chelator deferiprone (L1) has been associated with sporadic agranulocytosis, milder forms of neutropenia and other side-effects. To determine the incidence of these events, we performed a multicentre prospective study of the chelator. Blood counts were performed weekly, and c...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cohen AR,Galanello R,Piga A,Dipalma A,Vullo C,Tricta F

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a patient with immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), we found a novel platelet-activating IgG (act-IgG) and an inhibitory IgG (inhi-IgG) that prevented activation induced by both CD9 monoclonal antibody (mAb) and the act-IgG. Purified IgG from the patient plasma caused a rise in [Ca2+]i and the aggregation of norm...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Yanabu M,Nomura S,Fukuroi T,Suzuki M,Kawakatsu T,Kido H,Yamaguchi K,Kokawa T,Yasunaga K

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow (BM) and peripheral blood (PB) involvement in 10 patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) was analysed by a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-mediated RNase protection assay. The complementarity determining regions (CDR)-III of all 10 MCLs examined was amplified efficiently with consensus V(H) and J(H) prime...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kurokawa T,Kinoshita T,Murate T,Nagasaka T,Kagami Y,Ogura M,Nakamura S,Seto M,Hotta T,Saito H

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma cells isolated from bone marrow (BM) aspirates of 15 patients with active multiple myeloma (MM) were cultured and analysed for in vitro proliferative response and Ig-synthesis upon stimulation with interleukin-3 (IL-3), interleukin-4 (IL-4) and interleukin-6 (IL-6). The proliferative response, determined as Ki-...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sonneveld P,Schoester M,de Leeuw K

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment response assessment in multiple myeloma (MM) relies on the detection of paraprotein in serum and/or urine, bone marrow morphology and immunohistochemistry. With remarkable advances in therapy, particularly in the newly diagnosed setting, achievement of complete remission became frequent, creating the need to...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bal S,Weaver A,Cornell RF,Costa LJ

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00