Impact of the D-index deduced from duration and intensity of neutropenia following chemotherapy on the risk of invasive fungal infection in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia.

abstract：:A 50-year-old woman presented with CML-CP and was initially treated with branded imatinib (Glivec) 400 mg/day. She rapidly achieved a complete hematologic response (CHR), at which point she switched therapy to a copy version of imatinib (Imatib). She received 400 mg/day of Imatib for 3 months, during which time her pl...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Mattar M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria is a rare acquired stem cell disorder characterized by intravascular hemolysis, aplasia and an increased risk of thrombosis. We describe a patient under treatment with the anti-complement antibody eculizumab who developed pancytopenia, requiring blood transfusions, due to massive sp...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Krishnan SK,Hill A,Hillmen P,Arnold LM,Brooksbank GL,Wood A,Scarsbrook A,Davies MH,Kelly RJ

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two episodes of CMV retinitis in a pediatric patient who underwent a CD34+ selected graft from his haploidentical father. Both recipient and donor were cytomegalovirus (CMV) seropositive. Both episodes occurred late post-grafting during a phase of complete immunological recovery with sufficient numbers of ...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Cesaro S,Boaro MP,Pillon M,Calore E,Cermakova I,Perruccio K,Mengoli C,Messina C

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycomb repressive complex (PRC) is a critical regulator of normal tissue homeostasis as well as tumorigenesis. EZH2, an enzymatic subunit of PRC2, is a histone H3K27 methyltransferase that functions in the regulation of gene silencing. EZH2 overexpression was first identified in prostate and breast cancers and is as...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Sashida G,Iwama A

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thy-1 (CDw90) is a phosphatidylinositol-anchored protein, and is expressed on human pluripotential hematopoietic stem cells. The expression pattern of this antigen on leukemia cells is still controversial. In this study, 72 adult patients with pre-B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (pre-B ALL) were examined for the e...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Takahashi T,Mizutani M,Miwa H,Katayama N,Nishii K,Shikami M,Yamaguchi M,Shiku H,Kamada N,Kita K

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic lymphocytic leukemia is one of the most common leukemias in the western world and consists of many chromosome aberrations. We report the case of a 74-year-old male patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia with complex variant translocations t(8;22)(q24;q11) and der(8)t(6;8)(p21;p21) identified by chromosome b...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Hsiao HH,Hung YH,Hsiao HP,Tseng SB,Tsai HJ,Liu YC,Liu TC,Chao MC,Chang Y,Lin SF

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty patients with hematologic diseases received allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplants (HSCT) from related donors other than genotypically HLA-matched siblings. Their outcomes were compared with those of 102 patients who had received HSCT from genotypically HLA-matched siblings. All donors in the study grou...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Tomonari A,Iseki T,Ooi J,Takahashi S,Ishii K,Takahashi T,Shindo M,Nagamura F,Uchimaru K,Nagayama H,Shirafuji N,Tojo A,Tani K,Asano S

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycomb-group genes (PcG), identified by Drosophila genetics, are believed to maintain positional information by constituting a cellular memory system. Recently this system has been proved to be supported by epigenetic transcription regulation. PcG products comprise two distinct complexes, PcG complex 1 and 2. First ...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Takihara Y

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. In the present study, we retrospectively evaluated whether soluble interleukin-2 receptor (sIL-2R) index, defined as the ratio of serum sIL-2R levels at neutrop...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Nakamura Y,Tanaka Y,Tanaka M,Sugiyama A,Yamamoto K,Tokunaga Y,Yujiri T,Tanizawa Y

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inherited antithrombin deficiency, an established risk factor for venous thromboembolism (VTE), can be classified into type I (quantitative deficiency) or type II (qualitative deficiency). In the present study, we assessed the VTE risk associated with the phenotypes of antithrombin deficiency in patients admitted to o...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Mitsuguro M,Sakata T,Okamoto A,Kameda S,Kokubo Y,Tsutsumi Y,Sano M,Miyata T

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 76-year-old Japanese woman was hospitalized for ileus symptoms caused by extensive thrombosis of the superior mesenteric vein. Because laboratory test results suggested type III protein S (PS) deficiency, molecular changes in PS were investigated. A single-base transition, CCG to CTG at codon 626 in exon XV, resulti...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Kato M,Iida S,Sato M,Hayami Y,Hanamura I,Miura K,Ito M,Harada S,Komatsu H,Wakita A,Manabe T,Ueda R

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While anti-cancer chemotherapy has improved the survival of patients with hematologic malignancies, it has also exposed such patients to the risk of life-threatening infection due to neutropenia. In intensive chemotherapy for leukemia, invasive aspergillosis resulting in death is infrequently observed. In such cases, ...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Yamada R,Horikawa K,Ishihara S,Hoshino K,Kawaguchi T,Iyama K,Mitsuya H,Asou N

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Initial treatment with androgen (metenolone acetate) alone for 19 weeks had no effect in a 45-year-old Japanese female with refractory anemia (RA). The patient achieved trilineage hematologic recovery after addition of recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) and recombinant human erythropoietin...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Katayama Y,Kojima K,Omoto E,Harada M

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation provides a major epigenetic code (besides histone modification) of the lineage- and development-specific genes (such as regulators of differentiation in the hematopoietic lineages) that control expression of normal cells. However, DNA methylation is also involved in malignancies because aberrant methyl...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Rüter B,Wijermans PW,Lübbert M

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aplastic anemia (AA) and pure red cell aplasia (PRCA) appear to be more prevalent in Asian countries including Korea. However, there are no exact data regarding its prevalence and frequency of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) in Korea. Here, we present demographic data relating to AA/PRCA/MDS in Kor...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Choi Y,Jo JC,Jeon HJ,Kim DW,Chang MH,Kim H

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) conditions appear to be the best possible candidates for a gene therapy approach. Transgene expression by lymphocyte precursors should confer to these cells a selective growth advantage that gives rise to long-lived T-lymphocytes. This rationale was used as a basis for a clinica...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Hacein-Bey-Abina S,Fischer A,Cavazzana-Calvo M

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) among patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is elevated compared with the general population. We describe a retrospective study of 78 HIV-infected patients with NHL treated between 1999 and 2006 at the Infectology Institute, a reference center for H...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Tanaka PY,Pracchia LF,Calore EE

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is an autoimmune disorder described as autoantibody-mediated platelet deterioration. Platelets with affiliated IgG are targeted for exploitation by Fc receptor-mediated phagocytic cellular material within the reticuloendothelial system. The objective of this research is to investigate the...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Wu Z,Zhou J,Prsoon P,Wei X,Liu X,Peng B

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Umbilical cord blood (UCB) is well known to be a rich source of hematopoietic stem cells with practical and ethical advantages. Because mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) from bone marrow have been regarded as good materials for cell/gene therapy as well as for tissue engineering because of their multidifferentiation poten...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Lee MW,Yang MS,Park JS,Kim HC,Kim YJ,Choi J

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multicentric Castleman's disease (MCD) is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder with systemic symptoms and poor prognosis and is characterized by an abnormal proliferation of polyclonal plasmablasts in the mantle zone of B-cell follicles. The disease is found primarily in chronic HIV carriers and is usually strictly ass...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Nicoli P,Familiari U,Bosa M,Allice T,Mete F,Morotti A,Cilloni D,Saglio G,Guerrasio A

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant methylation in promoter-associated CpG islands has been recognized as a major mechanism for tumor suppressor gene silencing in several malignancies. We determined the methylation status of nine tumor suppressor genes in 68 newly diagnosed MM patients by methylation-specific PCR. The frequency of promoter hype...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Braggio E,Maiolino A,Gouveia ME,Magalhães R,Souto Filho JT,Garnica M,Nucci M,Renault IZ

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 67-year-old man suffered from a left cervical lymph node swelling and tenderness. Biopsy of the cervical lymph node showed pleomorphic large cells containing large atypical nuclei. Immunohistochemical stains of these cells were positive for CD30, but negative for CD3 and CD20. After the biopsy, his left cervical ski...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Asano H,Imai Y,Ota S,Yamamoto G,Takahashi T,Fukayama M,Kurokawa M

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gemcitabine is a nucleoside analogue used widely across haemato-oncology. Side effects are generally predictable, and typically consist of cytopenia, nausea, and infection. As the present case clearly demonstrates, gemcitabine is in rare cases associated with life-threatening large vessel vasculitis, which can involve...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Eyre TA,Gooding S,Patel I,Moore N,Hatton C,Collins GP

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin light chain (AL) amyloidosis is a systemic disorder caused by depositions of insoluble amyloid fibrils that are composed of fragments of monoclonal light chains produced by abnormal plasma cells. The prognosis is reported to be poor; median survival time (MST) is 1-2 years overall, and is 6 months in pa...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Ishiguro K,Hayashi T,Igarashi T,Maruyama Y,Ikeda H,Ishida T,Shinomura Y

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) represent a group of potentially acute myeloid leukemic disorders. There exists a delicate balance between increased apoptosis and proliferation of the leukemic hematopoietic stem cell that permits many patients to survive for years. When the balance shifts towards proliferation AML...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Bennett JM,Kouides PA,Forman SJ

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is predominantly a disease of older adults, with a median age at diagnosis of over 65 years. AML in older adults differs biologically and clinically from that in younger ones, and is characterized by stronger intrinsic resistance and lower tolerance to chemotherapy. The effects of age on b...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Yanada M,Naoe T

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe fungal infections remain a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in neutropenic patients undergoing dose-intensive chemotherapy for malignant diseases. Chronic disseminated candidiasis (CDC) is a life-threatening complication in neutropenic patients because of the lack of responsive hematopoietic precurs...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Hübel K,Chemnitz J,Brochhagen HG,Cornely OA

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new complicated Ph1 translocation involving five chromosomes, t(9;22;21;11;inv ins(12)-(q15p12p13))(q34;q11;q22;q13;q15), was found in a 64-year-old Korean woman with chronic myelocytic leukemia (CML). At presentation, the patient was found to be in the accelerated phase, she entered the chronic phase after six cycl...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Abe R,Shiga Y,Ookoshi T,Tanaka T,Maruyama Y

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied a 29-year-old Japanese male patient with factor XI deficiency; we also studied his parents and one sibling. Factor XI coagulation activity and antigen levels were extremely low (less than 1% of normal level) in both the patient and his brother, and they were half the normal levels in both parents. Sequence ...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Kawaguchi T,Koga S,Hongo H,Komiyama Y,Li K,Ishihara S,Horikawa K,Hidaka M,Mitsuya H,Nakakuma H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-dose melphalan followed by autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (ASCT) is a standard treatment for younger myeloma patients. However, the correlation between its toxicity and renal impairment is not clear. We analyzed this relationship, focusing on estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) as an i...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Tamaki M,Nakasone H,Gomyo A,Hayakawa J,Akahoshi Y,Harada N,Kusuda M,Ishihara Y,Kawamura K,Tanihara A,Sato M,Terasako-Saito K,Kameda K,Wada H,Kikuchi M,Kimura SI,Kako S,Kanda Y

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00