A new exon 12 mutation in the EPAS1 gene possibly associated with erythrocytosis.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in haematological patients (HP) has not been comprehensively reported. METHODS:We analysed 39 patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection and haematological malignancies. Clinical characteristics and outcomes were compared to a matched control group of 53 non-cancer ...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Sanchez-Pina JM,Rodríguez Rodriguez M,Castro Quismondo N,Gil Manso R,Colmenares R,Gil Alos D,Paciello ML,Zafra D,Garcia-Sanchez C,Villegas C,Cuellar C,Carreño-Tarragona G,Zamanillo I,Poza M,Iñiguez R,Gutierrez X,Alonso R

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis is critical for the clinical progression of haematopoietic malignancies and depends on angiogenic factors. Angiogenin is a powerful factor produced by neoplastic cells and host microenvironment. High levels of soluble angiogenin (sAng) correlate with a poor prognosis in patients affected by acute myeloid ...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Musolino C,Alonci A,Bellomo G,Loteta B,Quartarone E,Gangemi D,Massara E,Calabrò L

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) has been shown to inhibit in vitro growth of multiple myeloma (MM) cells, and this effect can be further potentiated by the addition of Dexamethasone (DEX). We here extended this study by testing the activity of 9-cis retinoic acid (9-cis RA) and 13-cis retinoic acid (13-cis RA), both al...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Tosi P,Pellacani A,Visani G,Ottaviani E,Ronconi S,Zamagni E,Benni M,Cavo M,Tura S

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To correlate the clinical and hematological features of β-globin gene haplotypes with the oxidative stress status in pediatric patients with sickle cell disease (SCD). METHODS:A total of 95 patients with SCD and 40 healthy children were studied. The β-globin cluster, plasma lipid peroxidation (LPO) and plasm...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Rusanova I,Escames G,Cossio G,de Borace RG,Moreno B,Chahboune M,López LC,Díez T,Acuña-Castroviejo D

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Approximately 40% of idiopathic thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) patients will suffer an exacerbation (recurrence of TTP within 30 d after their last plasma exchange (PE) procedure), but there are no data to predict who is at greater risk. We studied the clinical utility of demographic and ADAMTS13 b...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Cataland SR,Yang SB,Witkoff L,Kraut EH,Lin S,George JN,Wu HM

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple mutations in the same gene within a haemophilia family are being increasingly reported and raise many issues with regard to the specificity of the mutations in causing the disease. In a proportion of families with multiple mutations, discordant phenotypic severity is often observed among the affected members....

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Shetty S,Bhave M,Ghosh K

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Fluconazole or posaconazole is a standard of care in antifungal prophylaxis for patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). However, many patients need to interrupt standard prophylaxis due to intolerability, drug-drug interactions, or toxicity. Micafungin has come to promin...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Rothe A,Claßen A,Carney J,Hallek M,Mellinghoff SC,Scheid C,Holtick U,von Bergwelt-Baildon M

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:An excessive intramedullar progenitor cell apoptosis, to which elevated expression of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) might contribute, is considered the main cause of inefficient hematopoiesis in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Enhanced bone marrow (BM) angiogenesis is regarded as an essential cofa...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Stifter G,Heiss S,Gastl G,Tzankov A,Stauder R

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML), expression of the hematopoietic stem cell marker CD34 has been associated with a poorer prognosis. CD34 is usually analyzed by flow cytometry (FC), but may also be analyzed using immunohistochemistry (IH). The present study was undertak...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Kanter-Lewensohn L,Hellström-Lindberg E,Kock Y,Elmhorn-Rosenborg A,Ost A

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac disease is the primary cause of mortality in beta-thalassemia patients. Except for ventricular dysfunction and pulmonary hypertension that represent the main forms of heart disease in these patients, valvular abnormalities including valvular regurgitation, endocardial thickening and calcification and mitral va...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Farmakis D,Deftereos S,Giakoumis A,Polymeropoulos E,Aessopos A

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinicopathological features of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated lymphoma were investigated in a retrospective study of 85 adult patients in eastern Denmark diagnosed during the period 1990-1996. The possible pathogenetic role of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) in these tumour...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Hansen PB,Penkowa M,Kirk O,Skinhøj P,Pedersen C,Lisse I,Kiss K,Zhou X,Hamilton-Dutoit SJ

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:8 patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia in the chronic phase who had previously received chemotherapy were given alpha-interferon (Intron A). The Intron A was administered subcutaneously at a dose of 2 x 10(6) I.U./m2 three times a week and this was increased to 4-5 million I.U./m2 daily if no response was obtained ...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Friche E,Hansen MM,Wieslander S

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Thalidomide is remarkably active in advanced relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma (MM), so that its use has been recently proposed either in newly diagnosed patients or as maintenance treatment after conventional or high-dose therapy. This latter therapeutic approach has risen the concern of side-effects ...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Tosi P,Zamagni E,Cellini C,Plasmati R,Cangini D,Tacchetti P,Perrone G,Pastorelli F,Tura S,Baccarani M,Cavo M

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The role of growth hormone (GH) for maintaining normal erythropoiesis among non-GH-deficient elderly subjects is not known. OBJECTIVES:To determine relationships between the concentrations of serum insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) and it's carrier protein insulin-like growth factor binding protein 3 (IG...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Nilsson-Ehle H,Bengtsson BA,Lindstedt G,Mellström D

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:On the basis of two population-based registries, our study aims to calculate the real-world cost-effectiveness of rituximab maintenance compared with observation in relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma patients who responded to second-line chemotherapy. METHODS:Data were obtained from the EORTC20981 t...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Blommestein HM,Issa DE,Pompen M,Ten Hoor G,Hogendoorn M,Joosten P,Zweegman S,Huijgens PC,Uyl-de Groot CA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyclonal B cell activation occurred in 3 patients following treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin (i.v. Ig) for idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). The possibility that this may represent an anti-idiotype response and the hypothesis that prolonged remission of ITP may be induced by this mechanism are disc...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Wangel AG,Lorenzetti M,Pettersson T

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An intensive protocol utilizing mitoxantrone, high-dose cytarabine, vincristine, etoposide and methylprednisolone as induction therapy for chronic myeloid leukemia in blast transformation is described. Fourteen patients were treated, with a remission/second chronic phase achieved in 64%. None of the 3 patients older t...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Lipton JH,Messner HA,Curtis JE,Atkins HL,Minden MD

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are important for intercellular signalling in cancer. Tumour-associated macrophages, expressing the haemoglobin-haptoglobin and mannose receptors CD163 and CD206, are crucial for cancer progression. We recently identified CD163 on EVs in the circulation as a fraction of total sol...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Kvorning SL,Nielsen MC,Andersen NF,Hokland M,Andersen MN,Møller HJ

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe a case of venlafaxine-induced ecchymoses. METHODS:A patient with a history of ecchymoses coincident with venlafaxine therapy was rechallenged with the drug. Her platelet function was assessed with aggregation and ATP release studies before the rechallenge and after she developed ecchymoses. In ad...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Sarma A,Horne MK 3rd

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Iron-overload cardiomyopathy is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with thalassemia. However, the precise mechanisms of iron entry and sequestration in the heart are still unclear. Our previous study showed that Fe(2+) uptake in thalassemic cardiomyocytes are mainly mediated by T-type calci...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Kumfu S,Chattipakorn S,Chinda K,Fucharoen S,Chattipakorn N

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GM-CSF may induce pulmonary complications, such as dyspnea with temporary decreases in oxygen saturation described as first dose effect for higher dosages of intravenous rhGM-CSF. This study investigated possible pulmonary disturbances in adult de novo AML patients receiving yeast rhGM-CSF 24 h prior to chemotherapy u...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Zühlsdorf M,von Eiff M,Thomas M,Büchner T

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aim was to assess liver iron content, in thalassaemic patients, by using three different MR protocols and compare their data. Ninety-four thalassaemic patients (44 M and 50 F, mean age 25.82 +/- 8.3 yrs), were enrolled in the study. In each patient, three measurements of the liver iron content were performed, with...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Christoforidis A,Perifanis V,Spanos G,Vlachaki E,Economou M,Tsatra I,Athanassiou-Metaxa M

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study aims to characterize the epidemiology of immunocompetent Primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) diagnosed 2000-2013 in Sweden. METHODS:Cases were identified in the population-based Swedish Lymphoma Register. Incidence per 100 000 person-years and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calcul...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Eloranta S,Brånvall E,Celsing F,Papworth K,Ljungqvist M,Enblad G,Ekström-Smedby K

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive hemophagocytic syndrome (RHS) is a disease of overwhelming macrophage activity triggered by infection, malignancy or autoimmune disorders. Currently used laboratory markers for the quantitative assessment of monocyte/macrophage activation lack lineage-restricted expression patterns and thus specificity. Serum...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Schaer DJ,Schleiffenbaum B,Kurrer M,Imhof A,Bächli E,Fehr J,Moller HJ,Moestrup SK,Schaffner A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From a retrospective multivariate study on 107 multiple myeloma (MM) patients, serum beta 2-microglobulin (beta 2M) proved to be the best prognostic discriminator, better than each of the currently used staging systems (Durie and Salmon's [DS], Merlini, Waldenström and Jayakar's [MWJ] and the British Medical Research ...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Gobbi PG,Bertoloni D,Grignani G,Pieresca C,Rossi A,Rutigliano L,Merlini G,Riccardi A,Ascari E

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite a wide spectrum of treatment options, mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) remains a challenging hematologic malignancy to manage. Advances in front-line therapy, including the monoclonal antibody rituximab and increasing use of cytarabine, have improved remission rates. Autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation (HC...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Cohen JB,Burns LJ,Bachanova V

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:From 1954 to 1987, flour in Denmark was fortified with 30 mg carbonyl iron per kg. This mandatory fortification was abolished in 1987. The aim of this study was to compare iron status in Danish men before and after abolition of iron fortification. METHODS:Iron status (serum ferritin, haemoglo...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Milman N,Byg KE,Ovesen L,Kirchhoff M,Jürgensen KS

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemoglobinopathies are the most common autosomal recessive disorders and are mostly inherited in a recessive manner. However, certain mutations can affect the globin chain stability, leading to dominant forms of thalassemia. The aim of this work was the molecular and structural characterization of two heterozygous in-...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Scheps KG,Hasenahuer MA,Parisi G,Targovnik HM,García E,Veber ES,Crisp R,Elena G,Varela V,Fornasari MS

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary pancreatic lymphoma (PPL) is a rare disease representing 0.1% of malignant lymphomas, which lacks well-defined diagnostic and therapeutic protocols. OBJECTIVES:To describe PPL clinical, diagnostic and histological characteristics, together with therapy and outcome, in a relatively large series of patients. M...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Facchinelli D,Sina S,Boninsegna E,Borin A,Tisi MC,Piazza F,Scapinello G,Maiolo E,Hohaus S,Zamò A,Merli M,Stefani PM,Mellone F,Basso M,Sartori R,Rusconi C,Parisi A,Manfrin E,Krampera M,Ruggeri M,Visco C,Tecchio C

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abnormal coagulation parameters have been reported in COVID-19-infected patients. Although the underlying mechanism of COVID-19 coagulopathy remains unknown, it has been suggested to be a form of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). OBJECTIVES:The aim of our study was to analyze the coagulation par...

journal_title：European journal of haematology

authors： Martín-Rojas RM,Pérez-Rus G,Delgado-Pinos VE,Domingo-González A,Regalado-Artamendi I,Alba-Urdiales N,Demelo-Rodríguez P,Monsalvo S,Rodríguez-Macías G,Ballesteros M,Osorio-Prendes S,Díez-Martín JL,Pascual Izquierdo C

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00