Prognostic relevance of clinical risk factors in mantle cell lymphoma.

abstract：:Hydroxyurea (HU) is the first widely used treatment to have an impact on the severity of disease in adult patients with sickle cell anemia, but limited data are available for younger patients or those with variant genotypes. We reviewed 324 months of experience with HU in 16 patients from 5.3 to 18.4 years of age trea...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Rogers ZR

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experiments reviewed here establish that surface components and surface functions can assume predictable, asymmetric patterns within the continuous plasma membranes of mammalian leukocytes. Recent biophysical and morphological studies show that receptor redistribution can occur very rapidly and that a unique geome...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Oliver JM,Berlin RD

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cell transplantation is a recognized treatment for many hematologic malignancies. Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) testing is a key assessment in the evaluation of potential recipients and selection of the appropriate stem cell donor. Over the past several years, technological advances have moved HLA testing from a ...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Bray RA

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smoldering myeloma (SMM) is a precursor state of multiple myeloma. It is defined by an M-protein concentration ≥3 g/dL and/or ≥10% clonal bone marrow plasma cells, in the absence of end-organ damage. Based on clinical observations, the natural history of SMM varies greatly, from stable, monoclonal gammopathy of undete...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Landgren O,Rajkumar SV

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mantle-cell lymphoma (MCL) is a lymphoproliferative disorder derived from a subset of naive pregerminal center cells characterized by a nodular or diffuse proliferation of atypical lymphoid cells with a monoclonal B-cell phenotype and coexpression of CD5. Two cytologic variants have been identified, typical and blasti...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Campo E,Raffeld M,Jaffe ES

更新日期：1999-04-01 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 availability of antibodies reactive with antigens expressed only by hematopoietic cells has provided clinical investigators with new tools for use in developing therapies for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Studies performed to date have investigated the use of such antibodies in an unmodified state, combined with p...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Appelbaum FR

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anemia is frequently diagnosed in patients with cancer and its treatment is an important clinical problem. The deficiency in red blood cells (RBCs) can be a debilitating problem, and anemia correlates with poor performance status, deteriorates quality of life, and may negatively influence the prognosis of cancer patie...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Beutel G,Ganser A

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virtually all human cells are endowed with the capacity to commit suicide using an evolutionarily conserved mechanism that involves activation of caspase-family cell death proteases. Caspase activation culminates in a cell death process known as "apoptosis." The activation of these intracellular proteases is carefully...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Reed CJ

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Management of patients with beta-thalassemia is based on adequate, safe blood transfusions (free of transfusion-transmitted diseases) and prevention of iron overload. Iron overload causes multiple endocrinopathies, contributes to osteoporosis, and is the cause of cardiac disease. Cardiac disease, secondary to iron dam...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Wonke B

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse models of transplantation have been indispensable to the development of bone marrow transplantation (BMT). Their role in the generation of basic science knowledge is invaluable and is subject to discussion below. However, this article focuses on the direct role and relevance of mouse models towards the clinical ...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Arber C,Brenner MK,Reddy P

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a complex and heterogeneous disease with distinct age-associated genomic and epigenomic alterations. A large number of somatic karyotypic and molecular alterations have been identified in AML to date; however, very few predict outcome or identify potential therapeutic targets. Here we d...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Schuback HL,Arceci RJ,Meshinchi S

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) remains a diagnosis of exclusion both from nonimmune causes of thrombocytopenia and immune thrombocytopenia that develops in the context of other disorders (secondary immune thrombocytopenia). The pathobiology, natural history, and response to therapy of the diverse causes...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Cines DB,Liebman H,Stasi R

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large scale sequencing projects over the past 2 decades have led to the identification of many common genomic alterations in hematolymphoid neoplasms, some of which with diagnostic, therapeutic, and prognostic implications [1-3]. Although these alterations can be tested individually with high sensitivity and specifici...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Kuo FC

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:Copper is an essential trace element that is required for a number of enzymes which are necessary for normal metabolic function. Metabolic balance studies have demonstrated that daily copper losses are approximately 1.3 mg/day. In order to remain in copper balance, the average adult male must consume a diet which cont...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Williams DM

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant activated factor VII (rFVIIa) is being increasingly used to treat bleeding associated with a variety of non-hemophilic coagulopathic indications, and its mechanism of action in these areas is under active investigation. Numerous studies have shown that FVIIa binds with low affinity to activated platelets; ...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Monroe DM

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression profiling of cancer began as a research tool but is rapidly moving towards clinical application. The diagnostic category of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) can now be viewed as an amalgam of several different diseases that have distinct gene expression profiles, oncogenic mechanisms, and clinical...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Wiestner A,Staudt LM

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous daily treatment with all-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA) in patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia has been associated with a marked decline in the plasma drug concentration at the time of relapse. Recent pharmacologic studies have attempted to determine the reasons for the progressive reduction of plasma co...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Adamson PC

更新日期：1994-10-01 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：: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：:Hodgkin Lymphoma (HL) is a lymphoproliferative disorder of B cells that commonly has a favorable prognosis when treated with either combination chemotherapy and radiation therapy, or chemotherapy alone. However, the prognosis for patients who relapse, or have evidence for refractory disease, is poor and new treatments...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Younes A,Ansell SM

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：: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：:Anemia of chronic disease (ACD) or inflammation may be secondary to infections, autoimmune disorders, chronic renal failure, or malignancies. It is characterized by an immune activation with an increase in inflammatory cytokines and resultant increase in hepcidin levels. In addition, inappropriate erythropoietin level...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Gangat N,Wolanskyj AP

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5-Aza-2'-deoxycytidine (decitabine; Dacogen, MGI Pharma, Inc, Bloomington, MN) is a cytidine analog that inhibits DNA methyltransferases resulting in loss of DNA methylation with subsequent gene re-expression. This compound was first synthesized over 40 years ago and since that time much information has been learned r...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Kantarjian HM,Issa JP

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because optimal management of iron chelation therapy in patients with sickle cell disease and transfusional iron overload requires accurate determination of the magnitude of iron excess, a variety of techniques for evaluating iron overload are under development, including measurement of serum ferritin iron levels, x-r...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Brittenham GM,Sheth S,Allen CJ,Farrell DE

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:Over the last two decades quality of life (QoL) and the social challenges of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (allo-HSCT) survivors have been emerging as subjects of extensive research and are now considered as very important aspects in the pretransplant evaluation and management of allo-HSCT recipients. ...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Norkin M,Hsu JW,Wingard JR

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in recombinant DNA manufacturing technology have now made possible the production of a highly purified and active recombinant factor IX (rFIX) product. Recombinant factor IX was developed by (1) stable insertion of the genes for both factor IX and PACE-SOL (a truncated, soluble serine protease needed to enhan...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Harrison S,Adamson S,Bonam D,Brodeur S,Charlebois T,Clancy B,Costigan R,Drapeau D,Hamilton M,Hanley K,Kelley B,Knight A,Leonard M,McCarthy M,Oakes P,Sterl K,Switzer M,Walsh R,Foster W

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00