Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura: report of a case with a possible response to high-dose intravenous gamma globulin.

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：:A 69-year-old Japanese female was admitted to our hospital due to a 2-month history of vomiting after eating. Examination of the small intestinal tract revealed a tumor with calcification in the inner portion, from the horizontal portion to the ascending portion of the duodenum, and jejunojejunostomy was performed. Th...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Ishikawa T,Kobayashi Y,Omoto A,Adachi Y,Nakagawa S,Kaneko T,Nishida K,Miyamoto Y,Chimori Y,Yoshikawa T,Kondo M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemochromatosis has generally been considered to be a genetic disease in which progressive iron accumulation over many years can lead to cirrhosis of the liver, hepatocellular carcinoma, diabetes, cardiomyopathy, and arthropathy. Iron depletion by phlebotomy has been the recommended therapy although a randomized trial...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Adams PC

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus vegetative endocarditis developing in a patient with acute lymphocytic leukemia during the phase of hematological remission has led to a fatal outcome, complicated with severe hemolytic anemia with red cell fragmentation. Systemic aspergillosis may involve heart valves with underlying disorders, but seldom...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Nishiura T,Miyazaki Y,Oritani K,Tominaga N,Tomiyama Y,Katagiri S,Kanayama Y,Yonezawa T,Tarui S,Yamada T

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inferferon alfa-2b (IFN) plays a major role in the current management of previously untreated patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) as well as patients with CML who have relapsed after bone marrow transplantation. Hydroxyurea (HU) is the best conventional drug for treatment of CML in the chronic phase. Ten ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Bourantas KL,Syrou M,Tsiara S,Danella M,Konstantinides P

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative study of karyotypes, hematological variables and neutrophil alkaline phosphatase (NAP) was performed in 106 parents (53 couples) of children with free, homogeneous trisomy 21 and of 220 parents (110 couples) of normal children. In the parents of trisomy 21 children we found a significant increase of the ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Grozdea J,Bourrouillou G,Mounie C,Colombies P

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We investigated the prevalence of opportunistic infections in HIV-infected women according to transferrin (TF) phenotype. METHODS:We conducted a cross-sectional study among 200 HIV-positive women in the Butare University Teaching Hospital in Rwanda. TF phenotypes were determined using starch gel electrophore...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Masaisa F,Gahutu JB,Mukiibi J,Delanghe J,Philippé J

更新日期：2012-01-01 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

abstract：:It has been found possible to test ferritin concentrations in the reticulum and hemopoietic cells from human bone marrow by an immunoradiometric assay. Ferritin concentration in healthy test persons amounts to 0.92 +/- 0.38 ng/microgram protein in the reticulum and 0.084 +/- 0.031 ng/microgram protein in hemopoietic c...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Oertel J,Stephan M,Kastner M

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum folate levels and unsaturated folate-binding capacity (UFBC) in a mixed population of outpatients and inpatients were analyzed with respect to race, sex, and age. The results supported the relatively high prevalence of subnormal serum folates in patient populations, did not find lower serum folates in the elderl...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Lawrence VA

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dihydrofolate reductase (FH2-R) was studied cytochemically in the bone marrow erythroblasts of 20 normal controls and 46 patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDSs) classified according to FAB, prior to therapy. The reaction product was quantified for the same samples with a Vickers M86 microdensitometer. The enzym...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Nano R,Invernizzi R,Rezzani R,Gerzeli G

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The short-term effect of a domestically produced equine antithymocyte globulin (ATG) was analyzed in 6 patients with acquired severe aplastic anemia (AA). All patients received 5 doses of ATG every other day in a 60-min intravenous infusion. Five peripheral blood immunoregulatory mononuclear cell (MNC) subsets, define...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： López-Karpovitch X,Zarzosa ME,Cárdenas MR,Piedras J

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Autophagy is crucial for the survival and function of plasma cells including protection from toxic misfolded immunoglobulin and proper energy metabolism. Multiple myeloma (MM) is an indolent but eventually fatal neoplasm of plasma cells. Autophagy may play a critical role in the survival of MM cells and...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Jung G,Roh J,Lee H,Gil M,Yoon DH,Suh C,Jang S,Park CJ,Huh J,Park CS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In pregnant mice. 55Fe-labeled iron-dextran (Imferon) is transferred across the placenta. It was detected in the bone marrow, liver, spleen and peripheral blood of the pregnant animal, as well as in the embryonic liver erythroid precursors and peripheral blood. Uptake by liver and peripheral blood cells of pregnant an...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Djaldetti M,Notti I,Fishman P,Bessler H

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The value of clearance of peripheral blood blasts (PBB) as a predictor of outcomes in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is controversial. To investigate the prognostic significance of the time to clearance of PBB after induction in Chinese patients with AML, a retrospective analysis of 146 patients with newly diagnosed AML...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Li X,Zhu H,Zhang Y,Zhao W,Mi J,Hu J,Li J

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Automated cytochemistry by the Hemalog D carries out leukocyte differential counts in a continuous flow mode on whole blood EDTA-collected samples, through the optical measurement of enzyme activity and cell size. This operative principle thus parallels the basis of the FAB classification of acute leukemias. Although ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： d'Onofrio G,Mango G

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was found that neutrophils in untreated uraemic patients as well as in subjects on regular dialysis treatment displayed higher activity of acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase and peroxidase. Spontaneous reduction of nitro blue tetrazolium (NBT) by granulocytes was also higher in both groups in comparison to cont...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Sutowicz W,Komorowska Z,Hanicki Z,Cichocki T,Smoleński O

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the results of high-dose therapy (HDT) and autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (ASCT) in patients with relapsed or primary refractory Hodgkin's disease (HD), using a previously reported prognostic model based on the presence of three poor prognostic factors at the start of salvage therapy/p...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Qazilbash MH,Devetten MP,Abraham J,Lynch JP,Beall CL,Auber M,Weisenborn R,Bunner P,Ericson SG

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amylase-producing tumors are mainly adenocarcinomas and, in rare instances, multiple myelomas. We describe here a first case of amylase-producing Bence Jones type myeloma with pancreatitis-like symptoms and the second in a Caucasian patient. The finding of salivary-type hyperamylasemia in a 72-year-old female with a p...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Lopez J,Ulibarrena C,Gonzalez-Porque P,Navas G,Roldan E,Cancelas JA,Perez-Oteyza J,Burgaleta C,García-Laraña J,Sastre JL

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Thalassemia is a group of hereditary hemoglobinopathies caused by decreased or absent synthesis of α and/or β globin chains. Studies have shown that hypercoagulability and thrombosis are common clinical symptoms in β-thalassemia, especially β-thalassemia intermedia, but little is known about in α-thalassemia...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Chansai S,Fucharoen S,Fucharoen G,Jetsrisuparb A,Chumpia W

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN) is a rare and highly aggressive hematological malignancy derived from precursors of plasmacytoid dendritic cells. This disease typically presents with cutaneous involvement as the first manifestation, with subsequent or simultaneous spread to bone marrow and periphe...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Wang H,Cao J,Hong X

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rare case of Hodgkin's disease which initially presented with a thyroid tumor in an 18-year-old-man is reported. The tumor involved most of the thyroid gland but was well demarcated, and the border between the tumor and the remnants of the thyroid gland was relatively clear, suggesting secondary Hodgkin's disease in...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Nakamura S,Mizukami Y,Yokoyama K,Saito Y,Ohtake S,Matsuda T

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 61-year-old Japanese man was referred to our hospital in 2002 due to severe pancytopenia. Bone marrow and peripheral blood findings indicated he had severe aplastic anemia (AA). A whole-body CT scan and Ga scintigraphy revealed no abnormal findings. Antithymocyte globulin and cyclosporine A (CyA) were administered a...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Suzuki Y,Niitsu N,Hayama M,Katayama T,Ishii R,Osaka M,Miyazaki K,Danbara M,Horie R,Yoshida T,Nakamura N,Higashihara M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hemophilia B patient, seropositive for HIV antibodies since 1984, came to us in March 1989 with a severe necrotizing lesion of the nose. It was an erythematous lesion and looked like rhinophyma. Microbiological examination of the skin biopsy showed the presence of Cryptococcus neoformans. At the time of the study, t...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Mares M,Sartori MT,Carretta M,Bertaggia A,Girolami A

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human beta-globin was produced in Escherichia coli as a cleavable fusion protein using the expression vector pLcII [Nagai and Thøgersen, Nature 301, p. 810, 1984]. The fusion protein CIIFX beta-globin was purified under denaturing conditions to homogeneity and the authentic beta-globin was liberated by blood coagulati...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Luisi BF,Nagai K,Perutz MF

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

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：BACKGROUND:The incidence of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in haematological malignancies varies according to the type and grade of the disease and clinical variables, and there is a need to develop a tool to predict the occurrence of VTE in cancer patients at diagnosis to tailor prophylactic anticoagulation use during t...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Elmoamly S,Mattar M,Yacoub MF,Afif A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute megakaryoblastic leukemia is uncommon and comprises about 5% of acute nonlymphoid leukemias in the French-American-British classification. Cell lines from such leukemias are relatively rare with only about 8 reported in the literature. We established a cell line from a case of acute megakaryoblastic leukemia ari...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Skinnider LF,Pabello P,Zheng CY

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00