Mismatched unrelated donor transplantation.

abstract：:Serum vitamin B12 levels are often low in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients. However, only a few patients appear to have actual vitamin B12 deficiency. A low red cell folate level accompanying the low vitamin B12 level makes the presence of vitamin B12 deficiency more likely. Our experience suggests...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Remacha AF,Cadafalch J

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This phase I trial of idarubicin (IDA) was conducted in 32 patients with acute leukemia and chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) in blastic crisis (CML/BC) who either had failed to achieve a complete remission (CR) after initial induction therapy or had relapsed after CR. IDA was administered at dosages ranging from an ...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Tamura K

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) comprises a substantial proportion of leukemias in adults in the western hemisphere. Male gender, increasing age, ethnicity (high in Caucasians, lowest in Asians), and family history are risk factors. Although no specific extrinsic etiologic factors have been established, farming and...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Caporaso N,Marti GE,Goldin L

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) from a human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-matched sibling is the treatment of choice in children and young adults with severe aplastic anemia (SAA). However, because only 30% of patients have a suitable donor, more aggressive nontransplant immunosuppressive regimens have been used, with re...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Margolis DA,Casper JT

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The delineation of specific erythrocyte glycolytic enzyme defects during the past three decades has clarified hitherto unexplained hereditary hemolytic syndromes. The glycolytic enzymopathies have proven to be important, not as a public health problem, but because the investigation of these experimental models of natu...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Tanaka KR,Zerez CR

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Von Willebrand disease (VWD) is the most commonly inherited bleeding disorder, caused by inheritance of a quantitative or qualitative abnormality of von Willebrand factor (VWF). While the majority of patients with VWD are successfully treated with adjunctive therapies or with the synthetic vasopressin analog desmopres...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Hambleton J

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new high-purity recombinant factor VIII preparation has been developed for the treatment of hemophilia A. Structurally, this factor VIII preparation, B-domain deleted recombinant factor VIII (BDDrFVIII), differs from other recombinant and plasma-derived factor VIII preparations in that most of the B-domain has been ...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Sandberg H,Almstedt A,Brandt J,Castro VM,Gray E,Holmquist L,Lewin M,Oswaldsson U,Mikaelsson M,Jankowski MA,Bond M,Scoble HA

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is an illness of primary acquired thrombocytopenia occurring in the absence of marrow failure. Splenectomy was first used as a treatment for ITP in 1913. However, with the realization that opsonin (critical for the optimal killing of invasive micro-organisms by white blood cel...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Bell WR Jr

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although often overlooked, the life of the patient with severe hemophilia is characterized by both intermittent and chronic pain. Bleeds into joints and muscles cause extensive pressure on sensory nerves and, following recurrent bleeds, joint destruction, and synovial reaction is accompanied by constant pains that are...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Ingerslev J,Hvid I

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) comprises a group of incurable, generally slow-growing lymphomas highly responsive to initial therapy, with a relapsing and progressive course. Rituximab, an anti-CD20 antibody, has had a large impact on the treatment of indolent NHL. Its effectiveness as a single agent and in conju...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Sousou T,Friedberg J

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous disease characterized by multiple genetic and epigenetic alterations. The major causes of treatment failure remain disease relapse and treatment toxicity. However, major advances in biological determinants of disease relapse, development of targeted molecules, improvemen...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Brissot E,Mohty M

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The risk of postoperative venous thromboembolism (VTE) is dependent on the type of surgical procedure and specific characteristics of the patient. Patients with intrinsic factors placing them at higher risk of VTE remain at high risk, even if the procedural risk is low. The identification of factors such as age, obesi...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Samama MM

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antiviral and antigrowth activity of interferon (IFN) makes this agent a promising approach to cancer therapy. Three tumors that are unusually sensitive to IFN-a are chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) in the benign phase, hairy-cell leukemia, and the T-cell lymphomas associated with mycosis fungoides. Studies usin...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Gutterman JU

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are clonal hematologic disorders characterized by ineffective hematopoiesis resulting in peripheral cytopenia and by increased progression to acute myelocytic leukemia (AML). With the exception of allogeneic stem cell transplantation, there is generally no curative treatment for these d...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Fenaux P

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) include polycythemia vera (PV), essential thrombocythemia (ET), and primary myelofibrosis (PMF). MPN are characterized by clonal proliferation of myeloid progenitors leading to erythrocytosis, thrombocytosis, or leukocytosis, and risk of hemorrhagic and thrombotic events, as well as ...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Ferreira Cristina S,Polo B,Lacerda JF

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation, function, and development of peripheral T lymphocytes are dependent on the ability to signal properly through the surface T-cell antigen receptor (TCR)-CD3 complex. Transmission of such signals requires the activation of specific cytoplasmic protein tyrosine kinases (PTK) associated with the TCR. Recen...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Elder ME

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a hematopoietic disorder characterized by malignant expansion of bone marrow stem cells. Currently, the only unequivocally curative treatment for CML is allogeneic stem cell transplant. Unfortunately, a large proportion of CML patients are ineligible for such treatment and alternative...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Barnes DJ,Melo JV

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a bleeding disorder characterized by low platelet counts due to decreased platelet production as well as increased platelet destruction by autoimmune mechanisms. A shift toward Th1 and possibly Th17 cells together with impaired regulatory compartment, including T-regulatory (Tregs) and...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Yazdanbakhsh K,Zhong H,Bao W

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imatinib mesylate (Gleevec, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp, East Hanover, NJ; Glivec, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland), a signal transduction inhibitor with preferential effects against the tyrosine kinase activity of the protein product of the ABL proto-oncogene, induced hematologic responses in >or=90% of pati...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Hoelzer D,Gökbuget N,Ottmann OG

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rationale for modulation of multidrug resistance (MDR) by inhibitors of the multidrug transporter, P-glycoprotein (P-gp) includes the following: (1) P-gp is expressed by human cancers, either at diagnosis or after failure of chemotherapy; (2) P-gp expression at diagnosis has been associated with a poor prognosis i...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Sikic BI

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the era of modern communication, the physician and patient relationship has evolved to include an entirely new dimension-social media. This new dimension offers several opportunities for patient education, research and its dissemination, and professional development for health care providers; it can also serve as a...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Abuhadra N,Majhail NS,Nazha A

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The farnesyltransferase inhibitors (FTIs) have been shown in early clinical trials to elicit antitumor actions in a broad range of solid and hematologic malignancies. The mechanism of FTI action involves blockade of farnesyltransferase, an enzyme implicated in multiple cell-signaling pathways involved in proliferation...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Cortes JE,Kurzrock R,Kantarjian HM

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is an autoimmune disorder in which the patient's immune system reacts with a platelet autoantigen(s) resulting in thrombocytopenia due to immune-mediated platelet destruction and/or suppression of platelet production. Platelet membrane proteins, for reasons that are unclea...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： McMillan R

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of data from 806 patients with newly diagnosed adult acute myelocytic leukemia (AML) (not including acute promyelocytic leukemia [APL] patients) treated at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center from 1995 through 1999 indicated that among patients entering a particular week of induction therapy, mortality rates were 6%,...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Estey E

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is the only potential cure for most bone marrow (BM) failure syndromes and hemoglobinopathies. Over the past decade, umbilical cord blood (UCB) has been used more frequently as a stem cell source in patients who lack a suitable BM donor. Although graft failure ...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： MacMillan ML,Walters MC,Gluckman E

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now well accepted that a subgroup of patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) can recover from pancytopenia following immunosuppressive treatment (IST). For many years immunosuppression with antilymphocyte antibodies has been a standard treatment approach for patients with severe aplastic anemia (SAA). The ...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Parikh AR,Olnes MJ,Barrett AJ

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombus forms on catheters and other indwelling synthetic materials. Systemic heparin infusion decreases, but does not eliminate thrombus formation. The day is approaching when systemic heparinization may no longer be indicated to suppress catheter thrombogenesis. Passivation of catheters by heparin immobilization is...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Eberhart RC,Clagett CP

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bendamustine is a bifunctional mechlorethamine derivative that shares similarities to other alkylators; however, the presence of a benzimidazole ring may confer "nucleoside-like" properties and may allow the stabilization of the molecule leading to longer lasting DNA damage. Though bendamustine has demonstrated promis...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Leoni LM

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe neutropenia renders patients susceptible to life-threatening bacterial and fungal infections. Despite improvements in supportive care and antimicrobial therapy, morbidity and mortality remains significant. Since the 1960s, granulocyte transfusions have been used to either treat or prevent serious infections in ...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： West KA,Conry-Cantilena C

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both thalidomide and intermittent high-dose dexamethasone are agents with established activity against multiple myeloma. We summarized our experience with thalidomide alone, and then in combination with dexamethasone, for groups of patients with myeloma resistant or relapsing despite standard treatments. Criteria of r...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Alexanian R,Weber D,Anagnostopoulos A,Delasalle K,Wang M,Rankin K

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00