High-voltage irradiation and hydroxyurea for pulmonary leukostasis in acute myelomonocytic leukemia.

abstract：:Interferon-alpha has been used as standard therapy for patients with Philadelphia-positive chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) for more than 20 years. Recently randomized trials have shown a superiority of the tyrosine kinase inhibitor imatinib in respect to its efficacy to induce complete hematological and cytogenetic rem...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Verbeek W,König H,Boehm J,Kohl D,Lange C,Heuer T,Scheibenbogen C,Reis HE,Hochhaus A,Graeven U

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow samples of 28 individuals with clinically benign and of 41 patients with malignant monoclonal gammopathy were analyzed for the total number of lymphoplasmocellular elements containing cytoplasmic immunoglobulins and for the monoclonal fraction of these cells. Monoclonal immunoglobulin components were deter...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Morell A,Maurer W,Skvaril F,Barandun S

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two subjects, not previously reported in detail, had severe inherited deficiencies of erythrocyte pyrimidine nucleotidase. This was manifested hematologically by moderate hemolytic anemia with splenomegaly, morphologically by punctate basophilic stippling of Wright's stained erythrocytes, and biochemically by intraery...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Paglia DE,Fink K,Valentine WN

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 69-year-old man with a rare case of lymphoma-type alpha-chain disease was admitted to the hospital with marked cervical and inguinal lymph node swelling. Lymph node biopsy showed marked infiltration of plasma cells, plasmacytoid cells and immunoblastoid cells, alone or in combination. Immunoelectrophoresis and immun...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Itoh Y,Ohtaki H,Ono T,Mori N,Kawaoi A,Kawai T

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:von Willebrand disease (VWD) type 2M is a distinct entity and clearly differs from type 1. The genotype-phenotype correlation for cases with ristocetin cofactor activity (RCo)/antigen (Ag) ratios <0.60 is clear, whereas the von Willebrand factor (VWF):collagen binding (CB)/VWF:Ag ratio is normal in VWD 2M. Typical lab...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Hermans C,Batlle J

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A subpopulation with alkaline phosphatase activity and neutrophilic granules was found in leukemic monocytes from a child with acute monocytic leukemia (M5B). Almost all leukemic cells were strongly positive for nonspecific esterase and phagocytized opsonized zymosans. These findings suggest that the subpopulation are...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Tomonaga M,Ichimaru M,Tsuji Y

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family with hereditary ovalocytosis (HO) is described. The probands, 2 brothers, had splenic rupture after modest trauma as preenting symptoms. 7 members of the family had HO. The sister of the pobands had a moderately enlarged spleen. The other members proved normal on routine clinical examination. ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Kjellman B,Larsson C,Tibblin E

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration accompanying Hodgkin's disease were treated with plasma exchange in combination with chemotherapy or radiation therapy, respectively. Significant improvement in neurologic symptoms was obtained in 1 of them. ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Cehreli C,Payzin B,Undar B,Yilmaz U,Alakavuklar MN

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:A 67-year-old woman with agnogenic myeloid metaplasia, who underwent splenectomy 1 year after the diagnosis, experienced spontaneous hematologic remission 6 years after splenectomy. Ten months before her anemia improved, peripheral leukocytes no longer showed a shift to the left and peripheral erythroblasts had disapp...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Shimizu K,Hotta T

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The course and management of avascular necrosis of the femoral head (AVNFH) in six hips of 5 sickle cell syndrome patients (3 with Hb SS, 1 with Hb SC and 1 with Hb S/beta+-thalassaemia) are described. Two patients (aged 13 and 17 years) presented with Perthes- and osteochondritis dessicans-type lesions. These hips pr...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Rand C,Pearson TC,Heatley FW

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate a family with factor VII (FVII) deficiency from Argentina. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The proposita is a 14-year-old girl who presented with a mild to moderate bleeding tendency. Menorrhagia is controlled with periodical administration of small doses of recombinant FVII concentrate. The mother of th...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Girolami A,Paoletti M,Ferrari S,Garcia D

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The BCR-ABL fusion gene represents the hallmark of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) and is derived from a translocation between chromosome 9 and 22. The majority of CML patients have a breakpoint in the major BCR region of the BCR gene giving rise to e13a2 or e14a2 BCR-ABL transcripts. Occasionally, other BCR breakp...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Vefring HK,Gruber FX,Wee L,Hovland R,Hjorth-Hansen H,Gedde Dahl T,Meyer P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two unrelated patients with Bernard-Soulier syndrome and their relatives were studied. The patients demonstrated severe bleeding diathesis, the relatives were asymptomatic. The propositi showed the characteristic abnormalities of the syndrome: thrombocytopenia, a percentage of giant platelets higher than 65%, prolonge...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： De Marco L,Fabris F,Casonato A,Fabris P,Dal Ben MG,Barbato A,Girolami A

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of methylprednisolone on fresh cells from patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) has been studied using the differential staining cytotoxicity (DiSC) assay resulting in LC90s of < or = 0.2 to 2,000 micrograms/ml. Cells from previously treated patients were, on average, significantly more sensitiv...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Bosanquet AG,McCann SR,Crotty GM,Mills MJ,Catovsky D

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticosteroid hormones have been reported either to stimulate or to inhibit human erythropoiesis. We have studied the in vitro effect of hydrocortisone, 10(-6) mol/l, on human BFU-E when stimulated by preconstituted burst-promoting activity (BPA) in a medium conditioned by T lymphocytes. Hydrocortisone was found...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Morra L,Ponassi A,Moccia F,Mela GS,Ponassi I,Bessone G

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four infants and children suffering from glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency during hemolytic crisis were included in this study. Their ages ranged between 3 and 36 months with a median of 10 months. 22 were males and 2 were females. Fourteen out of them received a single bolus dose of desferrio...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Khalifa AS,el-Alfy MS,Mokhtar G,Fakeir AA,Khazbak MA,el-Baz F,el-Kholy M

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the in vivo effect of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) on the surface expression of putative counterligands for endothelial selectins on neutrophils in healthy volunteers. G-CSF (50 microg/m2/day) was administered subcutaneously to 5 healthy volunteers for 4 days. The expression of surface ant...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Ohsaka A,Saionji K

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The incidence of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in haematological malignancies varies according to the type and grade of the disease and clinical variables, and there is a need to develop a tool to predict the occurrence of VTE in cancer patients at diagnosis to tailor prophylactic anticoagulation use during t...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Elmoamly S,Mattar M,Yacoub MF,Afif A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation of rapidly binding coagulation factor inhibitors from antiphospholipid antibodies is a challenge for the hemostaseologic laboratory, especially with respect to the different therapeutic consequences. Several immunological and functional assays for the diagnosis of these disorders have been proposed. He...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Steinbrueckner B,Steigerwald U,Keller F,Ordung R,Neuenroth L,Reuther J,Klinker H,Schwender S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have been studying hematopoietic effects by the tachykinins, which like many other neuropeptides can be expressed in neural and nonneural tissues. Substance P (SP) and neurokinin-A (NK-A), members of the tachykinins are immune and hematopoietic modulators. SP and NK-A are derived from the preprotachykinin-I gene (P...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Rameshwar P,Gascón P

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a patient with recurrence of Hodgkin's disease and severe liver disease of unknown origin in whom autoimmune neutropenia developed. Because of possible seronegative viral hepatitis he was treated with high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin instead of steroids. He responded with a prompt but transitory increa...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Schoengen A,Fembacher PM,Schulz PC

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:The aim of this work was to investigate the efficacy and predictive factors of CLAG treatment in refractory or relapsed (R/R) acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients. METHODS:Sixty-seven R/R AML patients were enrolled in this prospective cohort study and treated by a CLAG regimen: 5 mg/m2/day cladribine ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Wang L,Xu J,Tian X,Lv T,Yuan G

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative study of karyotypes, hematological variables and neutrophil alkaline phosphatase (NAP) was performed in 106 parents (53 couples) of children with free, homogeneous trisomy 21 and of 220 parents (110 couples) of normal children. In the parents of trisomy 21 children we found a significant increase of the ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Grozdea J,Bourrouillou G,Mounie C,Colombies P

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with HIV-associated lymphocyte-depleted Hodgkin lymphoma (HIV-HL) often present with advanced, extranodal disease and aggressive clinical features, limiting definitive therapeutic intervention. Here we report two patients with HIV-HL who presented with multi-organ dysfunction as an initial manifestation of th...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Ding J,Kumar AJ,Wilding E,Lee ST,Law JY

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 27-year-old male developed massive generalized lymphadenopathy with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) presenting as extramedullary blast crisis mimicking a lymphocytic lymphoma. On presentation, a consistent chromosomal abnormality involving chromosomes 8 and 13, i.e. 46,XY,t(8;13) (q11;p11), was present in lym...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Rao PH,Cesarman G,Coleman M,Acaron S,Verma RS

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and confirmatory immunoprecipitation tests, sera from 640 Nigerians from Lagos and Cross River States were examined for antibodies against HIV. These comprised 570 blood donors and their family members, 56 patients with various haematological conditions and 14 patients w...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Okpara RA,Akinsete I,Williams EE,Schneider J,Wendler I,Hunsmann G

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cell activity against K562 cell targets and the distribution of T cell subpopulations were investigated in the peripheral blood of 25 patients affected by beta thalassemia major, 18 clinically healthy heterozygotes, and 25 age-matched normal subjects. It was found that thalassemia major patients di...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Neri A,Brugiatelli M,Iacopino P,Callea V,Ronco F

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fibrinolytic response to surgical trauma was studied longitudinally in 7 pigs by measuring the fibrinolytic activity in the blood and vein wall simultaneously. The results indicated a marked suppression in fibrinolytic activity in the blood which was closely correlated with the activity in the vein wall. This corr...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Wu AV,Mansfield AO

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron overload is a constant and the more important complication in thalassemia. Serum ferritin concentration accurately reflects body iron stores. A total of 245 thalassemic patients aged 12-55 years were examined, 71 having Hb H disease and 174 beta-thalassemia/Hb E disease. The patients received minimal or no blood ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Pootrakul P,Vongsmasa V,La-ongpanich P,Wasi P

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00