An unusual indication for splenectomy in hairy cell leukaemia: a report of three cases with persistent splenomegaly after chemoimmunotherapy.

abstract：:S-Methylation by thiopurine methyltransferase (TPMT) is an important route of metabolism for the thiopurine drugs. About one in 300 individuals are homozygous for a TPMT mutation associated with very low enzyme activity and severe myelosuppression if treated with standard doses of drug. To validate the use of molecula...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Coulthard SA,Rabello C,Robson J,Howell C,Minto L,Middleton PG,Gandhi MK,Jackson G,McLelland J,O'Brien H,Smith S,Reid MM,Pearson AD,Hall AG

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognosis of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) in adults is poor compared with children in terms of complete remission (CR) and leukaemia-free survival. In children in vitro resistance of leukaemic cells to various cytotoxic agents is an independent poor prognostic marker, but the relevance of in vitro drug resi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Maung ZT,Reid MM,Matheson E,Taylor PR,Proctor SJ,Hall AG

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of immune neutropenia following unrelated stem cell transplantation for chronic myeloid leukaemia is described. The neutropenia developed following herpes zoster viral infection and was associated with antibodies to the human neutrophil antigen (HNA)-2a (formerly known as NB1). The neutropenia was prolonged, pr...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Pocock CF,Lucas GF,Giles C,Vassiliou G,Cwynarski K,Rezvani K,Apperley JF,Goldman JM

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The standard of care for patients with acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL) relapsing after front-line treatment with arsenic trioxide (ATO)-based regimens remains to be defined. A total of 67 patients who relapsed after receiving ATO-based up-front therapy and were also salvaged using an ATO-based regimen were evaluat...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Fouzia NA,Sharma V,Ganesan S,Palani HK,Balasundaram N,David S,Kulkarni UP,Korula A,Devasia AJ,Nair SC,Janet NB,Abraham A,Mani T,Lakshmanan J,Balasubramanian P,George B,Mathews V

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of parenteral administration of IL-11 on gastrointestinal iron absorption was evaluated. A significant increase in the absorption of 59Fe-tagged food iron fed to fasting rats was observed when two subcutaneous injections of IL-11 were given 48 and 24 h prior to testing. Relatively similar increases of 25% w...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Baynes RD,Cook JD,Keith J

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognostic significance of cytogenetic abnormalities was determined in 106 patients with well-characterized idiopathic myelofibrosis who were successfully karyotyped at diagnosis. 35% of the cases exhibited a clonal abnormality (37/106), whereas 65% (69/106) had a normal karyotype. Three characteristic defects, na...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Reilly JT,Snowden JA,Spearing RL,Fitzgerald PM,Jones N,Watmore A,Potter A

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with pure red cell aplasia (PRCA) and autoimmune haemolytic anaemia (AIHA), associated with a thymoma which had already been removed, was studied in order to investigate the pathogenesis of PRCA and AIHA. The autoantibody eluted from the surface of the patient's red blood cells (RBC) reacted with the large E...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Taniguchi S,Shibuya T,Morioka E,Okamura T,Okamura S,Inaba S,Niho Y

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study shows a marked and protracted activation of HbF synthesis in homozygous beta.-thalassaemia patients transplanted from HLA identical siblings heterozygous for beta-thalassaemia, as compared to patients transplanted from normal donors. HbF synthesis in recipients was much higher in relation to the correspondi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Galanello R,Barella S,Maccioni L,Paglietti E,Melis MA,Rosatelli MC,Argiolu F,Cao A

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow (BM) from patients affected by multiple myeloma (MM), exhibiting monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) or with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) as well as from healthy donors were investigated for the presence of human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) DNA sequences. ORF 26 sequences were detected in 36-...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Azzi A,Fanci R,De Santis R,Ciappi S,Paci C

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies during the last three decades have enabled the development of detailed molecular insights into the structural basis of altered function in various inherited red cell membrane disorders. This review highlights our current understanding of molecular and mechanistic insights into various inherited red cell membra...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： An X,Mohandas N

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three TaqI restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLP) detected by the central portion of von Willebrand factor cDNA, which recognizes the true gene and in addition pseudogenic sequences, were characterized and mapped. Small cDNA fragments which hybridized with DNA from families with von Willebrand disease were u...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bernardi F,Marchetti G,Casonato A,Gemmati D,Patracchini P,Legnani C,DeRosa V,Girolami A,Conconi F

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) is a common complication following allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). It is the leading cause of non-relapse mortality in transplant survivors and has a significant impact upon their functional status and quality of life. Despite significant advances being m...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Fraser CJ,Scott Baker K

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The action of clopidogrel on platelet receptors was analysed using platelets obtained from 11 healthy volunteers given 75 mg of clopidogrel daily for 8 d. Samples of blood were taken before treatment and after 8 d of medication. Determination of 2-methylthioadenosine diphosphate trisodium (2MesADP)-induced p...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Contreres JO,Dupuy E,Job B,Habib A,Bryckaert M,Rosa JP,Simoneau G,Herbert JM,Savi P,Levy-Toledano S

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma and urine folate fractions were evaluated after ingestion of radioactive N5-methyl-tetrahydrofolic acid by a normal control (subject I), a patient on maintenance haemodialysis for chronic glomerulonephritis (subject 2), and an anephric patient on haemodialysis (subject 3). In subjects 1 and 2 maximal plasma rad...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Retief FP,Heyns AP,Oosthuizen M,Reenen OR

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies that inhibit von Willebrand Factor (VWF)-cleaving protease activity occur in patients with acute thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) and often persist in the chronic phase. A deficiency of this protease is likely to be responsible for the generation of ultrahigh VWF multimers and influence the formati...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sahud MA,Claster S,Liu L,Ero M,Harris K,Furlan M

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kidney iron deposition measured by R2* (magnetic resonance imaging) MRI is posited to result from tubular reabsorption of filtered haemoglobin due to intravascular haemolysis. In chronically transfused sickle cell disease (SCD), R2* is elevated and positively correlated with lactate dehydrogenase (LDH). To account for...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Denton CC,Detterich JA,Coates TD,Wood JC

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulation activity and whole-blood viscosity were measured in the steady state, and serially during painful crisis, in eight patients with sickle-cell anaemia. Platelet and coagulation activation occurred in the steady state and became more pronounced early in crisis. Whole-blood viscosity increased during crisis in...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Richardson SG,Matthews KB,Stuart J,Geddes AM,Wilcox RM

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha+ thalassaemias are the most common single gene disorders of humans, yet little is known about their haematological characteristics in childhood. Blood samples have been collected randomly from more than 2000 individuals in village communities in Vanuatu in the South West Pacific and analysed for alpha thalas...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Williams TN,Maitland K,Ganczakowski M,Peto TE,Clegg JB,Weatherall DJ,Bowden DK

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombocytopenia is a common finding in pregnancy, occurring in approximately 7-10% of pregnancies. It may be a diagnostic and management problem, and has many causes, some of which are specific to pregnancy. Although most cases of thrombocytopenia in pregnancy are mild, and have no adverse outcome for either mother o...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Myers B

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The level of minimal residual disease (MRD) in marrow early in treatment strongly predicts outcome in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). Using PCR we studied 30 pairs of aspirates and trephines taken during induction treatment. Consensus PCR primers showed a monoclonal gene rearrangement in eight pairs, po...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sykes PJ,Brisco MJ,Hughes E,Snell LE,Dolman G,Neoh SH,Peng LM,Toogood I,Venables WN,Morley AA

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary non-engraftment or early rejection after transplantation of haematopoietic stem cells represent life-threatening complications of allogeneic stem cell transplantation. Management of early graft failure has been problematic, as the risk of fatal infectious complications increases with the time of pancytopenia a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Schlegel PG,Eyrich M,Bader P,Handgretinger R,Lang P,Niethammer D,Klingebiel T

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tellurite (K2TeO3) has been suggested as a potential anti-sickling compound because it causes a selective increase in the water content of RBC. To investigate the conditions underlying the increase in RBC volume due to tellurite, normal RBCs were incubated with the compound in a physiological medium and the cells wash...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kurantsin-Mills J,Klug RK,Lessin LS

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognostic significance of SOCS3 protein expression was determined in de novo follicular lymphomas (FL) with t(14;18) and bcl-2 overexpression. Presentation lymph nodes from 82 FL patients for whom clinical information was available were immunohistochemically segregated into SOCS3-positive (n = 42) or -negative (n...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Krishnadasan R,Bifulco C,Kim J,Rodov S,Zieske AW,Vanasse GJ

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incorporation of the labelled deoxyribonucleosides 3H-deoxythymidine (3H-TdR), H3-deoxycytidine (3H-CdR), 3H-deoxyadenosine (3H-AdR), 3H-deoxyguanosine (3G-GdR), 3H-deoxyuridine (3H-UdR) and of labelled uridine (3H-UR) into DNA and RNA was studied in bone marrow (BM) and peripheral blood (PB) cells from 10 normal ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Piga A,Sylwestrowicz T,Ganeshaguru K,Breatnach F,Amos R,Prentice HG,Hoffbrand AV

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The responsiveness of bone marrow erythroid progenitors (CFU-E and BFU-E) to recombinant human erythropoietin (rh-Ep) was investigated in vitro in 21 patients with multiple myeloma to assess the clinical usefulness of rh-Ep in this disease. CFU-E and BFU-E assays were performed by methylcellulose culture methods. The ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Aoki I,Nishijima K,Homori M,Nakahara K,Higashi K,Ishikawa K

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognosis of paediatric acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) with primary induction failure (PIF) is extremely poor, and effective treatment strategies have not been established. We investigated the clinical and biological features of paediatric AML patients with PIF registered to the Japanese Paediatric Leukaemia/Lympho...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Miyamura T,Moritake H,Nakayama H,Tanaka S,Tomizawa D,Shiba N,Saito AM,Tawa A,Shimada A,Iwamoto S,Hayashi Y,Koike T,Horibe K,Manabe A,Mizutani S,Taga T,Adachi S

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulation factor concentrates are known to inhibit a variety of immune reactions when assessed in vitro. This study assessed the immunomodulatory activity of a wide range of coagulation factor concentrates by measuring their inhibition of PHA-stimulated lymphocyte proliferation and reduction in IL-2 secretion. The h...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Pearson HJ,Stirling D,Ludlam CA,Steel CM

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucormycosis has emerged as an increasingly important cause of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients, but contemporary data in children are lacking. We conducted a nationwide multicentre study to investigate the characteristics of mucormycosis in children with haematological malignancies. The cohort in...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Elitzur S,Arad-Cohen N,Barg A,Litichever N,Bielorai B,Elhasid R,Fischer S,Fruchtman Y,Gilad G,Kapelushnik J,Kharit M,Konen O,Laor R,Levy I,Raviv D,Shachor-Meyouhas Y,Shvartser-Beryozkin Y,Toren A,Yaniv I,Nirel R,I

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Philadelphia (Ph) translocation, t(9:22)(q 34:q11), is found in the majority of patients with chronic myelogenous leukaemia (CML) as well as in approximately 20% of adult acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) patients. The chromosome 22 breakpoint in CML has been localized within a restricted 5.8 kb segment of DNA k...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kurzrock R,Shtalrid M,Gutterman JU,Koller CA,Walters R,Trujillo JM,Talpaz M

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred and twenty-six patients were diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), according to the French-American-British (FAB) criteria, over a 13-year period, and studied retrospectively in a single institution in order to study indicators which were prognostically significant. Analysis of clinical and labora...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cunningham I,MacCallum SJ,Nicholls MD,Byth K,Hewson JW,Arnold B,Motum PI,Mulligan SP,Crane GG

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00