Improved intensive care unit survival for critically ill allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients following reduced intensity conditioning.

abstract：:This phase 2 study (N = 116) evaluated single-agent vosaroxin, a first-in-class anticancer quinolone derivative, in patients ≥60 years of age with previously untreated unfavourable prognosis acute myeloid leukaemia. Dose regimen optimization was explored in sequential cohorts (A: 72 mg/m(2)  d 1, 8, 15; B: 72 mg/m(2) ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Stuart RK,Cripe LD,Maris MB,Cooper MA,Stone RM,Dakhil SR,Turturro F,Stock W,Mason J,Shami PJ,Strickland SA,Costa LJ,Borthakur G,Michelson GC,Fox JA,Leavitt RD,Ravandi F

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T-cells from patients with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (B-CLL) have abnormal T4/T8 ratios and functions. Previously, we demonstrated that peripheral blood (PB) mononuclear cells from B-CLL patients secrete significant amounts of interleukin 2 (IL2) with an apparent dysregulation of accessory cells controlling...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Rossi JF,Klein B,Commes T,Jourdan M,Janbon C

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently developed ferrokinetic methods offer a tool to measure effective and ineffective erythropoiesis and mean red-cell lifespan (Ricketts et al, 1975). We have used this tool to investigate erythropoiesis in normal subjects and in patients with the anaemia of active rheumatoid arthritis. In normal subjects the res...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dinant HJ,de Maat CE

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proinflammatory cytokines such as interleukin 6 (IL-6), tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) and IL-1beta are considered to be involved in the pathogenesis of multiple myeloma (MM). In the present study, we examined a G/C polymorphism at position -174 in the promoter region of IL-6, a biallelic polymorphism at pos...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Zheng C,Huang DR,Bergenbrant S,Sundblad A,Osterborg A,Björkholm M,Holm G,Yi Q

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In human long-term marrow cultures a relatively high concentration of hydrocortisone (10(-6) M or more) is necessary for the development and subsequent maintenance of some cellular components in the adherent cell layer. However, such concentrations of hydrocortisone seem to be inhibitory for the production of granuloc...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Suda T,Dexter TM

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmas having no detectable factor VIII-related antigen but moderate factor VIII coagulant were obtained from two unrelated dogs homozygous for von Willebrand's disease and with the severe clinical expression of the disease. when these plasmas were gel-filtered in a buffer at physiologic ionic strength, the factor VI...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Benson RE,Johnson GS,Dodds WJ

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imatinib mesylate is useful for facilitating allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT) in advanced-phase chronic myelogenous leukaemia (AP-CML) patients. However, although the side-effects of imatinib are usually minor, cardiac morbidity can develop as a latent adverse effect post SCT when a myeloablative SCT is...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sohn SK,Kim JG,Kim DH,Lee KB

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Terminal B-cell differentiation is a multi-step process, from short-lived plasmablasts to mature long-lived plasma cells (PC). The anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family member Bfl-1/A1 plays a critical role in the survival of mature B cells. However, its potential involvement at the later stages of B-cell development remains hi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tarte K,Jourdan M,Veyrune JL,Berberich I,Fiol G,Redal N,Shaughnessy J Jr,Klein B

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative donor bone marrow transplantation (BMT) to treat severe aplastic anaemia (SAA) in children and young adults has been complicated by high rates of graft rejection and severe graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). We hypothesized that increased immunosuppression combined with T-cell depletion of the marrow graft ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Margolis D,Camitta B,Pietryga D,Keever-Taylor C,Baxter-Lowe LA,Pierce K,Kupst MJ,French J 3rd,Truitt R,Lawton C,Murray K,Garbrecht F,Flomenberg N,Casper J

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Failed surface expression of the complement decay-accelerating factor (DAF) due to mutation of the PIG-A gene is a hallmark of affected paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) blood elements. Previous findings that acute myelogenous leukaemia (AML) blasts evolving in a PNH patient differed from idiopathic AML blast...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Stafford HA,Nagarajan S,Weinberg JB,Medof ME

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood and bone marrow mononuclear cells from 10 patients with newly diagnosed Waldenström's macroglobulinaemia were analysed for the presence of leucocyte differentiation antigens using flow cytometry. Most patients had circulating intracytoplasmic-mu cells that were positive for the B-cell specific antigen...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kucharska-Pulczynska M,Ellegaard J,Hokland P

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel therapies with increased efficacy and decreased toxicity are desperately needed for the treatment of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). The anti CD33 immunoconjugate, gemtuzumab ozogamicin (GO), was withdrawn with concerns over induction mortality and lack of efficacy. However a number of recent trials suggest that,...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gasiorowski RE,Clark GJ,Bradstock K,Hart DN

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haematological characteristics have been compared in 29 subjects with heterozygous beta0 thalassaemia and in 33 subjects with heterozygous beta+ thalassaemia, identified by the type of sickle cell-beta thalassaemia among close relatives, in a Jamaican Negro population. Total haemoglobin, MCV and MCH were significantly...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Millard DP,Mason K,Serjeant BE,Serjeant GR

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disease progression occurs in over 1% of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance, monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis and early stage chronic lymphocytic leukaemia patients every year therefore regular monitoring is indicated. We assessed the efficacy of an outreach service to replace clinic monitoring using lo...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Rawstron AC,Jones RA,Ferguson C,Hughes G,Selby P,Reid C,Dalal S,Howard M,Smith G,Hillmen P,Owen RG,Jack AS

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spleen acts as a blood filter and lymphopoietic organ. Asplenic and hyposplenic individuals are more susceptible to serious infections caused by encapsulated bacteria but they can be protected by antibiotic prophylaxis and immunizations. Recent progress in vaccinology means prophylaxis is now successful in the vas...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kuchar E,Miśkiewicz K,Karlikowska M

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous dose-finding study has suggested that romiplostim is effective in patients with refractory aplastic anaemia (AA) and 10 µg/kg once weekly was recommended as a starting dose. In this Phase II/III, multicentre, open-label study, romiplostim was administered subcutaneously at a fixed dose of 10 µg/kg once week...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Jang JH,Tomiyama Y,Miyazaki K,Nagafuji K,Usuki K,Uoshima N,Fujisaki T,Kosugi H,Matsumura I,Sasaki K,Kizaki M,Sawa M,Hidaka M,Kobayashi N,Ichikawa S,Yonemura Y,Enokitani K,Matsuda A,Ozawa K,Mitani K,Lee JW,Nakao

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation therapy using retinoic acids (RAs) or 1alpha25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (D3) is an attractive alternative to chemotherapy in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). However, with the exception of RA therapy for acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL), RAs and D3 are not potent enough ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Fenton SL,Drayson MT,Hewison M,Vickers E,Brown G,Bunce CM

更新日期：1999-05-01 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：:The 'high and low responder phenomenon' of monocyte tissue factor (MTF) activity has been attributed to effects on monocytes by granulocytes, platelets and lipopolysaccharide (LPS). To study the possible contribution of plasma to the high and low responder phenomenon, we measured the MTF activity in isolated cryoprese...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Nijziel M,van Oerle R,van 't Veer C,van Pampus E,Lindhout T,Hamulyák K

更新日期：2001-01-01 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 effects of donor T cells, or their CD8+ subset, on engraftment and tolerance induction in fetal transplantation were evaluated using an F1-into-parent mouse-model that does not permit a graft-versus-host effect. Gestational day 13 C57BL/6 (H-2Kb) fetuses were transplanted with B6D2F1 (H-2Kb/d) light density bone m...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Chen JC,Chang ML,Lee H,Muench MO

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoelectric focusing (IEF) in the pH range 2.5-5.0 has been used to compare the immunoreactive (ir) erythropoietin (Epo) in paired samples of serum and urine from three patients, two with idiopathic aplastic anaemia and one with paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria and also from three anaemic rats. Serum samples only ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tam RC,Coleman SL,Tiplady RJ,Storring PL,Cotes PM

更新日期：1991-11-01 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：:The humanized CD52 monoclonal antibody Campath-1H was used as first-line therapy in nine patients with progressive chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). Intravenous (n = 5) or subcutaneous (n = 4) injections (up to 30 mg/inj.) were given three times a week for a maximum of 18 weeks. Three patients achieved a complete r...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Osterborg A,Fassas AS,Anagnostopoulos A,Dyer MJ,Catovsky D,Mellstedt H

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study of 7065 consecutive new pregnancies identified 230 with a positive screen, of which 27% (62/230) were 'enzyme-only' antibodies. 32 of these (52%) were potentially clinically important and were all of Rh specificity: 22 anti-E, seven anti-Cw, two anti-D and one anti-c. However, only three of these e...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Clark D,Greiss MA,Urbaniak SJ

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug-related neutropenia is a common observation in AIDS patients. Haematological growth factors are therefore increasingly used in combination with myelotoxic agents to reduce the risk of infection and to improve the haematological tolerance of these regimens. We report a case of an AIDS patient with Kaposi's sarcoma...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hermans P,Gori A,Lemone M,Franchioly P,Clumeck N

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of erythrocyte shape changes on the sedimentation rate was studied in vitro and in vivo. In vitro the highest sedimentation rate was observed with a slight degree of stomatocytosis (morphological index-0.3; i.e. one red cell out of three being a stomatocyte I). With increasing degrees of stomatocytosis t...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Reinhart WH,Singh A,Straub PW

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient leukaemia (TL) in neonates with Down syndrome (DS) is characterized by the transient appearance of blast cells in the peripheral blood that resolves spontaneously. Some TL patients die at an early age due to organ failure. Seventy DS patients with TL were studied retrospectively to identify clinical and labo...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Muramatsu H,Kato K,Watanabe N,Matsumoto K,Nakamura T,Horikoshi Y,Mimaya J,Suzuki C,Hayakawa M,Kojima S

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When monocytic leukaemia line U937 cells were incubated in the presence of HgCl2 there was a rapid increase in tissue factor (TF)-dependent procoagulant activity, reaching a maximum (equivalent to the total TF activity observed when cells had been subjected to a freeze/thaw cycle) after 15 min at 50 microM HgCl2 and a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kaneko H,Kakkar VV,Scully MF

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical trials with individual cytokines and extensive in vitro studies have provided the basis for the in vivo use of these molecules in combination. Animal models, with haemopoietic growth factors as well as preliminary studies in humans--as shown by our studies with the sequential use of IL-3 and GM-CSF in patient...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kanz L,Brugger W,Bross K,Mertelsmann R

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00