The issue of consent in medical practice.

abstract：:The integration of molecular and clinical information to tailor treatments remains an important research challenge in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). This study aimed to identify genomic lesions associated with a poor outcome and a higher risk of histological transformation. A mono-institutional cohort of 147 cas...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Rinaldi A,Mian M,Kwee I,Rossi D,Deambrogi C,Mensah AA,Forconi F,Spina V,Cencini E,Drandi D,Ladetto M,Santachiara R,Marasca R,Gattei V,Cavalli F,Zucca E,Gaidano G,Bertoni F

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurological emergencies are frequently catastrophic events in the course of haematological malignancies (HM) that, if not promptly recognized and treated, may lead to lethal outcomes or chronic sequelae. They may occur at any time during the disease course, but are more frequently observed following relapse. Practice...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： de la Fuente MI,Alderuccio JP,Lossos IS

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytometry has become important in the detection and determination of risk of monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis; methodology has changed, and will continue to change, as cytometric technology changes. ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Shapiro HM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate the feasibility of first trimester prenatal diagnosis of beta-thalassaemia by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) in Campania, one of the most affected regions in Southern Italy, DNA polymorphism analysis was performed on 40 unrelated patients, affected with homozygous beta-thalassaemi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Carestia C,Pagano L,Fioretti G,Mastrobuoni A

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic DNA from 106 cases of adult de novo acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) was screened by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and gel electrophoresis for FLT3 internal tandem duplication (ITD) mutations within the juxtamembrane (JM) domain. FLT3 mutations were detected in 14 cases (13.2%) and occurred in FAB types M1 (4 o...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Abu-Duhier FM,Goodeve AC,Wilson GA,Gari MA,Peake IR,Rees DC,Vandenberghe EA,Winship PR,Reilly JT

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation has been proposed as a new technology to decrease immunogenicity of leucocytes in platelet transfusions. UV radiation also induces platelet aggregation, which occurs most effectively at wavelengths between 240 and 280 nm and falls off sharply above 300 nm. In order to m...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： van Prooijen HC,van Marwijk Kooy M,van Weelden H,Aarts-Riemens MI,Borghuis L,Akkerman JW

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron chelators are increasingly combined clinically but the optimal conditions for cellular iron mobilization and mechanisms of interaction are unclear. Speciation plots for iron(III) binding of paired combinations of the licensed iron chelators desferrioxamine (DFO), deferiprone (DFP) and deferasirox (DFX) suggest co...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Vlachodimitropoulou Koumoutsea E,Garbowski M,Porter J

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:Guidelines for the use of polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based assays to aid the diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis (IA) in high-risk haematology patients have not been formulated. We prospectively evaluated a nested PCR assay to detect Aspergillus in blood during 95 febrile neutropenic episodes, in patients with ha...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Halliday C,Hoile R,Sorrell T,James G,Yadav S,Shaw P,Bleakley M,Bradstock K,Chen S

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha haemoglobin stabilising protein (AHSP) binds free alpha-globin chains and plays an important role in the protection of red cells, particularly during beta-thalassaemia. Murine ASHP was discovered as a GATA-1 target gene and human AHSP is directly regulated by GATA-1. More recently, AHSP was rediscovered as a hig...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Keys JR,Tallack MR,Hodge DJ,Cridland SO,David R,Perkins AC

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of EBV proteins and immunological properties were studied in the first stable cell line (SM) established from a patient presenting with persistent polyclonal B-cell lymphocytosis (PPBL). SM cells which represent a small population of EBV-positive atypical cells found in the peripheral blood of the patie...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Larcher C,Fend F,Mitterer M,Prang N,Schwarzmann F,Huemer HP

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel colony stimulating factor-1 (CSF-1) binding factor present in the serum from a patient in remission from lymphoma is described. Radioimmunoassay (RIA) repeatedly failed to detect circulating levels of CSF-1 in the peripheral blood system of this patient. Molecular analysis showed a normal CSF-1 gene structure ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Baker AH,Cachia PG,Tennant GB,Whittaker JA,White D,Stanley ER,Burnett AK,Padua RA

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Impaired switching from fetal haemoglobin (HbF) to adult globin gene expression leads to hereditary persistence of fetal haemoglobin (HPFH) in adult life. This is of prime interest because elevated HbF levels ameliorate β-thalassaemia and sickle cell anaemia. Fetal haemoglobin levels are regulated by complex mechanism...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Petruzzelli R,Gaudino S,Amendola G,Sessa R,Puzone S,Di Concilio R,d'Urzo G,Amendolara M,Izzo P,Grosso M

更新日期：2010-09-01 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 two unrelated Spanish males with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency and haemolytic anaemia, and two different novel point mutations in the G6PD gene, have been identified. A C to T transition at nucleotide 406 resulting in a (136) Arg to Cys substitution and a C to G transition at nucleotide 1155 r...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Zarza R,Pujades A,Rovira A,Saavedra R,Fernandez J,Aymerich M,Vives Corrons JL

更新日期：1997-09-01 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：:A sensitive F-cell assay has been used to examine the production of fetal haemoglobin (Hb F) in a group of 77 adult patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), and a control group composed of 100 normal blood donors. Although the mean F-cell percentage in the MDS group (6.0%) is not statistically different from that...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Craig JE,Sampietro M,Oscier DG,Contreras M,Thein S

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MonoMAC is a complex primary immunodeficiency caused by mutations in the myeloid transcription factor GATA2, characterized by multilineage cytopenia with malignant complications and severe infections, including mycobacteria and herpesviruses. We describe the clinical presentation, genetics and antiviral inflammatory r...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mardahl M,Jørgensen SE,Schneider A,Raaschou-Jensen K,Holm M,Veirum J,Kristensen TK,Johansen IS,Christiansen M,Assing K,Mogensen TH

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the origin of bone marrow fibroblasts in three bone marrow transplant recipients with aplastic anaemia and leukaemia who received grafts from HLA-identical siblings of opposite sex. The patients were conditioned for transplantation with high doses of cytotoxic drugs and 300--1000 rads total body irradi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Golde DW,Hocking WG,Quan SG,Sparkes RS,Gale RP

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the cytogenetic findings on 31 cases of splenic lymphoma with villous lymphocytes (SLVL). TPA stimulated cells from peripheral blood (28 cases), spleen (two cases) and lymph node (one case) with SLVL have been analysed. A clonal chromosome abnormality was found in 27/31 patients (87%); this was identified as...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Oscier DG,Matutes E,Gardiner A,Glide S,Mould S,Brito-Babapulle V,Ellis J,Catovsky D

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autologous or allogeneic peripheral blood T cells can stimulate the human megakaryocyte progenitor cell (CFU-Meg)-derived colony formation in a dose-dependent fashion in agar cultures of nonadherent (NA), T cell-depleted (NT) bone marrow (BM) cells. Low concentrations of monocytes and T cells can collaborate in the st...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hamaguchi H,Takano N,Saito K,Enokihara H,Furusawa S,Shishido H

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, quiescent bone marrow-derived CD34+ erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E) were found to be resistant to the inhibitory effects of tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha and -beta as well as interferon (IFN)-alpha, -beta and -gamma, in contrast to those stimulated by a combination of erytrhropoietin (Epo) pl...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ratajczak J,Kucia M,Reca R,Zhang J,Machalinski B,Ratajczak MZ

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies concerning the numbers of circulating clonal B cells in patients with multiple myeloma (MM) have reported conflicting data regarding the exact levels of clonal B cells and the existence of clonal cells in the CD34 compartment. In this report we show that high numbers of clonal cells with a phenotype of ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Rasmussen T,Kastrup J,Knudsen LM,Johnsen HE

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the results of a novel method developed for evaluation of in situ amplification, a molecular genetic method at the cellular level. Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) was used to study bcr-abl transcript levels in individual cells from patients with chronic myelogenous leukaemia (CML). ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Pachmann K,Zhao S,Schenk T,Kantarjian H,El-Naggar AK,Siciliano MJ,Guo JQ,Arlinghaus RB,Andreeff M

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) is a severe disease of platelets (small size, thrombocytopenia) and lymphocytes (immunodeficiency) arising from mutations of the X-chromosome gene WASP. Because of the prominent role of cytoskeletal abnormalities, particularly the paucity of surface microvilli, in the cellular pathol...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Shcherbina A,Bretscher A,Rosen FS,Kenney DM,Remold-O'Donnell E

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is little information published comparing peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) with bone marrow (BM) as the stem cell source in the long-term outcome in recipients of T-cell depleted (TCD) unrelated donor (UD) transplants. We present retrospective outcome data on 306 recipients of myeloablative, human leucocyte an...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Shaw BE,Apperley JF,Russell NH,Craddock C,Liakopoulou E,Potter MN,Wynn R,Gibson B,Pearce RM,Kirkland K,Lee J,Madrigal JA,Cook G,Byrne JL

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuation chemotherapy is a key component of the treatment of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. During this treatment phase, weekly dose adjustments are carried out based on current and historical full blood counts (FBCs). The dose decision pathway is complex and suboptimal therapy may result if information ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bury J,Hurt C,Roy A,Cheesman L,Bradburn M,Cross S,Fox J,Saha V

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent findings have indicated the importance of factor V (FV) in causing resistance to activated protein C (APC) in a high proportion of patients with venous thrombosis. This prompted us to investigate whether resistance could be due to defective inactivation of FVa by APC. Consequently, we amplified a 3.2 kb fragmen...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Beauchamp NJ,Daly ME,Hampton KK,Cooper PC,Preston FE,Peake IR

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1-O-alkyl-2-O-acetyl-sn-glyceryl-3-phosphorylcholine (PAF-acether) aggregates rabbit platelets and desensitizes them to a second challenge with the same agonist but not to arachidonic acid. The desensitizing activities of 14 analogues of PAF-acether were explored with particular attention to the dose-response depe...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Keraly CL,Coëffier E,Tencé M,Borrel MC,Benveniste J

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously thought to be best described as a plasma cell disorder, Waldenström macroglobulinaemia (WM) is now understood to be a distinct clinicobiological entity. WM shares B-cell origin and certain other features with both chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) and multiple myeloma (MM). WM and CLL arise from B-cells a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： McMaster ML,Caporaso N

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00