Autoantibodies, idiotypes, anti-idiotypes and autoimmunity.

abstract：:A 69-year-old woman presented with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) diagnosed after bone marrow recovery following intensive chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The retrospective diagnosis of initial blastic transformation of CLL was made. The patient eventually died, 5 months after initial blastic phase,...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Archimbaud E,Charrin C,Gentilhomme O,Rimokh R,Guyotat D,Fiere D,Germain D

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-thalassemia is very common in the Kuwaiti population, but its influence on anemia of pregnancy has not been previously investigated. We have screened a group of 59 anemic (Hb < 11 g/dl) pregnant women for the alpha-thal-2 (-alpha-3.7 kb) deletion which is the commonest alpha-thal allele in this community, using ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Diejomaoh FM,Haider MZ,Dalal H,Abdulaziz A,D'Souza TM,Adekile AD

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:In the chronic wound, the normal cascade of inflammation, granulation and reconstruction phases of healing is interrupted. Cytokines are now known to orchestrate different biochemical mediators resulting in the restoration of the healing phases. Growth factors may play a significant role in stimulating wound repair by...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Nath C,Gulati SC

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient developed a drug rash and neutropenia while receiving tobramycin, ticarcillin and flucloxacillin intravenously for osteomyelitis. Incorporation of these antibiotics into in vitro cultures of bone marrow granulocyte macrophage precursors (CFU-C) showed no inhibition of the patient's marrow or normal marrow by...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Irvine AE,Morris TC,Kelly GJ,McCracken N

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 8p11 myeloproliferative syndrome (EMS) is an aggressive neoplasm associated with chromosomal translocations involving the fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 (FGFR1) tyrosine kinase gene on chromosome 8p11-12. A new case of a 9-year-old boy with leukocytosis, eosinophilia, and general lymphadenopathy is reported i...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Lv H,Hu S,Lu J,Zhai Q,Zhai Z,Du Z,Sun Y,Li J,He H,Wang Y

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We aimed to determine the effects of intravenous iron therapy on blood parameters in pediatric patients who do not tolerate oral iron therapy for any reason. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The patient group consisted of candidates for elective operations requiring blood transfusions in order to raise hemoglobin (Hb) c...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Akarsu S,Taskin E,Yilmaz E,Yilmaz H,Kilic M,Aygun AD

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated double (specific and nonspecific) esterase (DE) staining in marrow cells of 237 patients with the myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Additional abnormalities of neutrophilic granules were examined cytochemically and immunocytochemically for myeloperoxidase activity and antigen elastase, lactoferrin and C...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Elghetany MT,Peterson B,MacCallum J,Nelson DA,Varney JF,Sullivan AK,Silverman LR,Schiffer CA,Davey FR,Bloomfield CD

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Premature neonates require blood transfusions, and biological parents may wish to be directed donors. Biological mothers pose a potential danger because their plasma may contain antibodies that will react with blood cell antigens inherited by the infant from the father. We studied 25 healthy, pregnant women at the tim...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Elbert C,Strauss RG,Barrett F,Goeken NE,Pittner B,Cordle D

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two family members (daughter and mother) with a bleeding disorder showed prolonged bleeding time and activated partial thromboplastin time associated with decreased plasma levels of factor VIII procoagulant activity, factor VIII-related antigen, and factor VIII-ristocetin cofactor activity. The ristocetin-induced plat...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Niiya K,Kubonishi I,Taguchi H,Miyoshi I

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, a factor was discovered in the serum of hepatectomized animals which was capable of augmenting the hepatic erythropoietin response to hypoxia when injected into normal rats. This substance was localized in the liver via an in situ perfusion technique and was termed the hepatic erythropoietic factor (HEF). Pa...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Naughton BA,Liu P,Naughton GK,Gordon AS

更新日期：1983-01-01 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：:Platelet functions were evaluated in 20 healthy pregnant women in the last months of pregnancy, during labor, and 5-12 weeks after labor. The results showed an increased platelet count, bleeding time and nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT) test, as well as an increased plasma calcium level postlabor. ADP- and epinephrine-indu...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Sagi A,Creter D,Goldman J,Djaldetti M

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron-microscopic examination of peripheral blood from a patient with 'hairy cell' leukemia revealed classical 'hairy cells', atypical lymphoid cells and numerous pathological plasma cells. Osmiophilic granular material coated the cell surface of 'hairy cells' and lymphoid cells but not the plasmalemma of the plasm...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Pedio G,Rüttner JR,Spycher MA,Gut D

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 59-year-old man presented with lymphocytosis with huge splenomegaly. The abnormal lymphocytes had a high nucleoplasm:cytoplasm ratio, a prominent nucleolus and hairy cytoplasmic projections. Immunophenotyping revealed B-cell leukemia with negative reactions to CD5 and CD25. Cytogenetic study showed 46,XY,der(5)t(5;6...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Dunn P,Shih LY,Ho YS,Tien HF

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:The plasminogen activator content of a vein wall has been measured by estimating the radio-activity released from a 125I-tagged fibrin clot by incubating that clot with a known weight of the vein wall. This method could be used in the investigation of the fibrinolytic system of the body in its normal distribution and ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Johnson RH,Mansfield AO

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the identification of an Hb S homozygosity in a 29-year-old multiple-transfused patient with severe kidney disease using a new reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) technique with mRNA as starting template. The procedure requires considerably less time than sequencing of genomic DNA and is...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Smetanina NS,Gu LH,Leonova JYe,Huisman TH

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:15 patients with aplastic anemia were prospectively followed after having measurements of myeloid progenitor cells in bone marrow and blood. Treatment included androgens, low or high dose steroids and standardized supportive care. The median length of survival was 5.8 months. When patients were grouped according to th...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Hinterberger W,Geissler K,Fischer M,Lechner K,Kabrna E

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of isolated lambda-light chain proteinemia and proteinuria is reported. During a 42-month follow-up, no sign of myelomatosis or amyloidosis developed and Bence Jones proteinuria remained nearly of the same magnitude. This case of apparently idiopathic Bence Jones gammopathy, the first lambda-type so far reporte...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Paladini G,Sala PG,Santini PA

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scanning electron microscopy has shown a typical cell surface morphology in hairy cell leukemia. Scanning immunoelectron microscope techniques, utilizing monoclonal antibodies and colloidal gold particles, have recently become available. Eight patients with hairy cell leukemia have been studied with a panel of monoclo...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Soligo D,Lambertenghi-Deliliers G,Nava MT,Polli N,Cattoretti G,Polli EE

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for embryonic zeta-globin chains as a routine screening test for (--(SEA)) alpha-thalassemia deletion (SEA deletion). A total of 174 consecutive patient samples with a request for Hb analysis were recruited. The ELISA method was evaluated against a polymerase c...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Ma SK,Ma V,Chan AY,Chan LC,Chui DH

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-transfusion-dependent thalassemia (NTDT) is associated with various forms of thalassemia and genetic modifiers. We report the molecular basis of NTDT in hemoglobin (Hb) E-β-thalassemia disease. This study was done in 73 adult patients encountered at the prenatal diagnosis center of Khon Kaen University, Northeast ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Yamsri S,Pakdee N,Fucharoen G,Sanchaisuriya K,Fucharoen S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thalidomide acts on the microenvironment of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) by influencing cytokine networks, and growing evidence supports thalidomide's usefulness in the management of haematological malignancies, such as MDS. The European Collaboration Group on Myelofibrosis with Myeloid Metaplasia reviewed patients...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Prentice HG,Sacchi S,Russell N

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma samples from patients with disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) associated with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) exhibited higher levels of the D-fragment of fibrin and fibrinogen degradation products [FDP(D)], with relatively lower levels of cross-linked fibrin degradation products (XDP), than sample...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Okajima K,Koga S,Okabe H,Inoue M,Takatsuki K

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of donor chimerism has become a routine method for the documentation of engraftment after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). In recent years several groups have also focused on the application of this technique for the detection of relapsing disease after allogeneic HSCT. This review a...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Thiede C,Bornhäuser M,Ehninger G

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant DNA polymorphisms have been reported in the beta-globin gene cluster of epsilon-G gamma-A gamma-psi beta-delta-beta-gene region, in normal (Hb AA) individuals and in patients with sickle cell anaemia (SCA). Investigations of the extent of the DNA polymorphisms in the beta A- and beta S-globin gene cluster ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： el-Hazmi MA,Bahakim HM,Warsy AS

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serological and biochemical studies were performed on M components isolated from 3 patients with transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder (TCC). All were IgG1(K) proteins. 2 of the 3 belonged to the VKI subgroup, and these 2 also possessed cross-reactive idiotypic determinants. These findings are consistent ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Pick AI,Wang AC,Frohlichman R,Fudenberg HH

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Philadelphia chromosome-negative myeloproliferative disorders (MPDs) polycythemia vera (PV), essential thrombocytosis (ET) and primary myelofibrosis (PMF) are characterized by increased proliferation of terminally differentiated myeloid cells. Although these disorders were recognized as clonal hematopoietic stem c...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Koppikar P,Levine RL

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rare case of acute promyelcytic leukemia (APL) is reported in a 7-year-old boy. The patient displayed the typical features of APL including impaction of the marrow with promyelocytes, marked elevation of the serum vitamin B12 and transcobalamin I levels and a hemorrhagic diathesis. The bleeding diathesis in the case...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Engelhard D,Yatziv S,Rachmilewitz EA,Polliack A

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00