Where are we at with point-of-care testing in haematology?

abstract：:Non-haemolytic transfusion reactions are the most common type of transfusion reaction and include transfusion-related acute lung injury, transfusion-associated circulatory overload, allergic reactions, febrile reactions, post-transfusion purpura and graft-versus- host disease. Although life-threatening anaphylaxis occ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hirayama F

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：:Neutrophil hypersegmentation (NH) is an important haematological feature of cobalamin or folate deficiency. As iron deficiency and folate deficiency often occur in the same target groups it is important to establish whether iron deficiency alone is a cause of NH. We report a case-control study which addresses this iss...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Westerman DA,Evans D,Metz J

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D-type cyclin genes are universally dysregulated in multiple myeloma (MM), but the functional consequences are unclear as D-type cyclin gene expression does not correlate with proliferation or disease progression. We examined the protein expression and regulation of D-type cyclins and other cell cycle regulators in hu...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Glassford J,Rabin N,Lam EW,Yong KL

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The peripheral blood (PB) mononuclear cells in patients with multiple myeloma (MM) have been reported to include CD34-expressing cells that are clonally related to the myeloma cells. To determine whether there were elevated levels of CD34 mRNA or whether CD34+ cells in the PB include myeloma-related cells, we develope...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Rasmussen T,Jensen L,Honoré L,Andersen H,Johnsen HE

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) mRNA was studied in human adherent monocytes in response to the protein kinase C activator, oleolyl-acetylglycerol (OAG), the calcium-ionophore A23187 and the cyclic AMP elevating agents, dibutyryl c-AMP (DBcAMP), cholera toxin an...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Vellenga E,van der Vinne B,De Wolf JT,Halie MR

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we aimed to identify distinct structural and numerical chromosomal aberrations in peripheral blood B cells of patients with myeloma and monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), which reflect changes thought to occur at different stages of the disease process. Peripheral blood fr...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Zojer N,Schuster-Kolbe J,Assmann I,Ackermann J,Strasser K,Hübl W,Drach J,Ludwig H

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognostic impact of bone marrow biopsy (BMB) histology and CD34 immunoreactivity was compared with that of the more conventional parameters (the FAB diagnosis, peripheral blood values, percentage of BM blasts and some common prognostic scores) in 100 MDS patients. Statistical correlations among the cytological, h...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Oriani A,Annaloro C,Soligo D,Pozzoli E,Cortelezzi A,Lambertenghi Deliliers G

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma (PMBL) shows chromosome 9p anomalies in 50% of cases. Based on reports that p16INK4A gene, located on this chromosomal arm, is frequently altered in aggressive lymphomas, we analysed for alterations of this gene in 27 cases of PMBL, which were part of a series of 32 PMBL cases that ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Scarpa A,Moore PS,Rigaud G,Inghirami G,Montresor M,Menegazzi M,Todeschini G,Menestrina F

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary familial and congenital polycythaemia (PFCP) is a disease characterized by increased red blood cell mass, and can be associated with mutations in the intracellular region of the erythropoietin (EPO) receptor (EPOR). Here we explore the mechanisms by which EPOR mutations induce PFCP, using an experimental syste...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gross M,Ben-Califa N,McMullin MF,Percy MJ,Bento C,Cario H,Minkov M,Neumann D

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential role of the infused B cell subset after Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation has not been yet studied. The present study analyzed the impact of B cells on transplant outcome in 254 patients who received a bone marrow graft from a human leucocyte antigen-identical sibling donor. The influence of B line...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Michonneau D,Peffault de Latour R,Porcher R,Robin M,Benbunan M,Rocha V,Ribaud P,Ferry C,Devergie A,Vanneaux V,Gluckman E,Marolleau JP,Socié G,Larghero J

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both the 2001 World Health Organisation (WHO) classification of haematopoietic neoplasms and the 2008 WHO classification revision include a distinctive diagnostic category, refractory anaemia with ring sideroblasts and thrombocytosis (RARS-T), to describe those rare patients who have both >or=15% ring sideroblasts and...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Wardrop D,Steensma DP

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:Pituitary tumour transforming gene (PTTG) isolated from pituitary tumour cells transforms cells in vitro and causes in vivo tumour formation. PTTG is expressed in several human tumours and cell lines. In normal adult tissues, the testis expresses abundant levels of PTTG mRNA comparable to that found in tumour cells. A...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Stoika R,Melmed S

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A t(5;12)(q33;p13) translocation has been detected in two patients with myeloid disorder and eosinophilia. Six other patients with haematological disease with eosinophilia with similar translocation have been published previously. The existence of a new entity, a myeloproliferative disorder with eosinophilia and t(5;1...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Baranger L,Szapiro N,Gardais J,Hillion J,Derre J,Francois S,Blanchet O,Boasson M,Berger R

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel BCR-ABL transcript was detected by multiplex RT-PCR in a patient with Philadelphia chromosome (Ph) positive chronic myelogenous leukaemia (CML) in accelerated phase. Sequencing of the aberrant transcript revealed an in-frame e2a2 fusion that included a 9 basepairs insertion. Cytogenetic analysis showed t(9;22)...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Leibundgut EO,Jotterand M,Rigamonti V,Parlier V,Mühlematter D,Tobler A,Solenthaler M

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of the variability in the sensitivity to warfarin in anticoagulated patients is associated with the c.-1639G > A polymorphism of the vitamin K-epoxide reductase (VKORC1) gene. However, its association with the acenocoumarol dose in patients under anticoagulant therapy has not been studied. The c.-1639G > A genoty...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Montes R,Ruiz de Gaona E,Martínez-González MA,Alberca I,Hermida J

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The translocation t(14;18) and its t(2;18) and t(18,22) variants, which involve the BCL2 genetic hallmark for follicular lymphoma (FL), have been reported in several cases of chronic B-cell lymphoproliferative disease (CLPD) and frequently in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). We describe here the clinical, morpholo...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Baseggio L,Geay MO,Gazzo S,Berger F,Traverse-Glehen A,Ffrench M,Hayette S,Callet-Bauchu E,Verney A,Morel D,Jallades L,Magaud JP,Salles G,Felman P

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of acute biphenotypic leukaemia has ranged from less than 1% to almost 50% in various reports in the literature. This wide variability may be attributed to a number of reasons including lack of consistent diagnostic criteria, use of various panels of antibodies, and the failure to recognize the lack of l...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hanson CA,Abaza M,Sheldon S,Ross CW,Schnitzer B,Stoolman LM

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The myelotoxicities of three antiretroviral agents, 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine (AZT), carbovir (CBV) and 2',3'-didehydro-2',3'-dideoxythymidine (d4T), were evaluated in vitro with normal human and murine haematopoietic progenitor cells. These studies demonstrated that continuous AZT exposure was more inhibitory to hum...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Du DL,Volpe DA,Grieshaber CK,Murphy MJ Jr

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to assess the potential of human cord blood (CB) cells to engraft in the xenogenic non-obese diabetic/severe combined immunodeficient (NOD/SCID) mouse model after in vitro expansion culture. We also studied the quality of human haemopoiesis arising from the transplantation of fresh or expanded cells i...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Denning-Kendall PA,Evely R,Singha S,Chapman M,Bradley BA,Hows JM

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with familial analpha-lipoproteinaemia (Tangier disease) was found to have stomatocytosis and haemolytic anaemia. The analysis of the red cell membrane constituents revealed a low cholesterol content (90 nmol/ml red cells, control 130 nmol/ml red cells), a decreased cholesterol/phospholipid ratio (0.54, cont...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Reinhart WH,Gössi U,Bütikofer P,Ott P,Sigrist H,Schatzmann HJ,Lutz HU,Straub PW

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently identified a human minor histocompatibility (H) antigen, encoded by UDP glycosyltransferase 2 family, polypeptide B17 (UGT2B17), whose immunogenicity results from differential expression in donor and recipient cells as a consequence of a homozygous deletion of the UGT2B17 gene. UGT2B17 is highly expressed ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Terakura S,Murata M,Nishida T,Emi N,Akatsuka Y,Riddell SR,Morishima Y,Kodera Y,Naoe T

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To create immortal mesenchymal cell lines, we transduced primary human bone marrow mesenchymal cells with telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT). TERT+ mesenchymal cells continued to grow for > 2 years; parallel TERT- cultures underwent senescence after 15 weeks. TERT+ mesenchymal cells did not form foci in soft agar...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mihara K,Imai C,Coustan-Smith E,Dome JS,Dominici M,Vanin E,Campana D

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-immune IgG binds to red cell integral membrane proteins obtained by mild alkaline extraction of ghosts. Detergent gel chromatography and electrophoretic analyses of IgG-membrane protein complexes obtained by nonionic detergent solubilization and affinity binding to protein A indicate that three polypeptides partic...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Victoria EJ,Mahan LC,Masouredis SP

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 1000 monoclonal antibodies (MAB), previously characterized in terms of reactivity with various haemopoietic cells and including representatives from each of the currently known Clusters of Differentiation (CD), have now been evaluated by us for reactivity against human endothelial cells. In the current study, scr...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Favaloro EJ,Moraitis N,Bradstock K,Koutts J

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 6-month-old male infant with hereditary spherocytosis (HS) who was the first child of a cousin marriage is presented. The patient had splenomegaly and severe anaemia. Examination of the peripheral blood smear revealed spherocytes and the osmotic fragility of red blood cells was greatly increased. Physical examinatio...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Duru F,Gürgey A,Oztürk G,Yörükan S,Altay C

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An anomalous organization of the cytoskeleton has been described in lymphocytes from chronic lymphatic leukaemia and in only few cell lines. We have now studied normal and neoplastic lymphocytes and lymphoid cell lines of both T and B lineage in order to detect morphological differences in the expression of microfilam...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Zauli D,Gobbi M,Crespi C,Tazzari PL,Miserocchi F,Tassinari A

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a therapy-related MDS (RAEB) patient with eosinophilia, unbalanced translocation der(7)t(1;7) (q12;q22) and lung cancer. We observed no increase in cytokine levels in serum or in the conditioned medium (CM) of peripheral T cells cultured with or without IL-2. When bone marrow (BM) cells were cultured with GM...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Imai Y,Yasuhara S,Hanafusa N,Ohsaka A,Enokihara H,Tomizuka H,Sonoyama M,Miura YS,Tohda S,Nara N,Takahashi A

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the generation and functional characterization of a humanized immunoenzyme comprising a stable humanized single chain Fv (scFv) with grafted specificity of the anti-CD22 murine monoclonal antibody RFB4 and the human ribonuclease angiogenin (ANG). The fusion protein produced from transiently transfected ma...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Krauss J,Arndt MA,Vu BK,Newton DL,Rybak SM

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00