Red cell size and the clinical and haematological features of homozygous sickle cell disease.

abstract：:Establishing a precise diagnosis is essential in inborn haematological cytopenias to enable appropriate treatment decisions and avoid secondary organ damage. However, both diversity and phenotypic overlap of distinct disease entities may make the identification of underlying genetic aetiologies by classical Sanger seq...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kager L,Jimenez Heredia R,Hirschmugl T,Dmytrus J,Krolo A,Müller H,Bock C,Zeitlhofer P,Dworzak M,Mann G,Holter W,Haas O,Boztug K

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have tested the different mononuclear blood cell populations of seven patients with severe haemophilia and one patient with F VII deficiency for the presence of HBV DNA. These subjects were all polytransfused with non-heated coagulation factors; three were HBsAg positive, five HBsAg negative but anti-HBc and anti-H...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lauré F,Chatenoud L,Pasquinelli C,Gazengel C,Beaurain G,Torchet MF,Zagury D,Bach JF,Bréchot C

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet and cell stimulation lead to plasma membrane remodelling, resulting in phosphatidylserine (PS) externalisation in the outer leaflet of the membrane, associated with the shedding of PS-rich microparticles (MPs), and contributes to thrombin generation by promoting the assembly of coagulation enzyme complexes. A...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Proulle V,Hugel B,Guillet B,Grunebaum L,Lambert T,Freyssinet JM,Dreyfus M

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The level of venous thrombosis risk in women who experience spontaneous or induced pregnancy loss has previously been uncertain. However, recent data indicate that the risk of venous thrombosis in women undergoing pregnancy termination in the first trimester is increased two-fold compared to non-pregnant women but red...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bagot CN,Pavord S,Hunt BJ,British Society of Haematology Obstetric Haematology Special Interest Group.

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although many cases of multiple myeloma (MM) and monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) are cytogenetically normal, interphase fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analyses reveal aberrations in the majority of the cases. Most likely, non-neoplastic cells are more prone to divide in culture tha...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Nilsson T,Lenhoff S,Rylander L,Höglund M,Turesson I,Mitelman F,Westin J,Johansson B

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine any role of macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF), in the immune responses in Kawasaki disease (KD), we serially assayed M-CSF and several related cytokines using ELISA. In 10 paediatric patients with KD the level of M-CSF was significantly higher in the acute phase than in the convalescent phase (14...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Igarashi H,Hatake K,Tomizuka H,Yamada M,Gunji Y,Momoi MY

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rearrangement of the immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) gene is widely exploited as a marker of B cell lineage and clonality in the pathology of lymphoproliferative disorders. We have developed a simple, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based method for detecting IgH gene rearrangement which relies on the observation tha...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Deane M,Norton JD

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because the phagocytic function of non-stimulated human polymorphonuclear granulocytes (PMN) is impaired after incubation with either polynuclear Fe(III) or Fe(II), we decided to study lipid peroxidation of PMN and monocytes by these iron complexes. Lipid peroxidation was assessed by measuring thiobarbituric acid reac...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hoepelman IM,Bezemer WA,van Doornmalen E,Verhoef J,Marx JJ

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of Runt-related transcription factor 1 (RUNX1) have been detected in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). However, the prognostic implication of RUNX1 mutations in primary MDS is limited. The stage of the disease at which the mutations are acquired and whether they persist during the disease course ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Chen CY,Lin LI,Tang JL,Ko BS,Tsay W,Chou WC,Yao M,Wu SJ,Tseng MH,Tien HF

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crude barium chloride eluates prepared from 12 unrelated patients with cross-reacting material positive (CRM+) haemophilia B were activated with celite eluate, the reaction products resolved after reduction by 13% SDS-PAGE, and factor IX antigenic material detected by probing with radiolabelled immunopurified rabbit a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Liddell MB,Peake IR,Taylor SA,Lillicrap DP,Giddings JC,Bloom AL

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrinogen Chapel Hill II is a hereditary, abnormal fibrinogen which is characterized by poor substrate reactivity toward thrombin, factor XIIIa and plasmin. The patient has a low plasma level of clottable protein with normal antigen concentration, high amounts of fibrinogen related material in serum, and prolonged th...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Carrell N,McDonagh J

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In studies on human platelets, nitroprusside (NP) alone at 1-10 micromol/l increased platelet cyclic AMP (cAMP) by 40-70%, whereas increases in cyclic GMP (cGMP) were much larger in percentage though not in concentration terms. Collagen enhanced these increases in cAMP up to fourfold, without affecting cGMP. This effe...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Jang EK,Azzam JE,Dickinson NT,Davidson MM,Haslam RJ

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of a preparation of recombinant human erythropoietin (rEp) prompted us to investigate the role of Ep in the regulation of megakaryocytopoiesis in mice, using experimental procedures by which the effects on the mitotic and post-mitotic compartment of megakaryocytes could be evaluated separately. In aga...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Grossi A,Vannucchi AM,Rafanelli D,Rossi Ferrini P

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guidelines on hereditary spherocytosis (HS) published in 2004 (Bolton-Maggs et al, 2004) are here replaced to reflect changes in current opinion on the surgical management, (particularly the indications for concomitant splenectomy with cholecystectomy in children with mild HS, and concomitant cholecystectomy with sple...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bolton-Maggs PH,Langer JC,Iolascon A,Tittensor P,King MJ,General Haematology Task Force of the British Committee for Standards in Haematology.

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the effects of L-arginine (L-Arg) supplementation on nitric oxide metabolite (NOx) production, oral L-Arg was given to normal controls, sickle cell disease (SCD) patients at steady state and SCD patients hospitalized with a vaso-occlusive crisis (VOC). L-Arg (0.1 g/kg) increased NOx formation by 18.8 +/- ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Morris CR,Kuypers FA,Larkin S,Sweeters N,Simon J,Vichinsky EP,Styles LA

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Red blood cells frozen by the low-glycerol fast-freezing technique were thawed, deglycerolized and resuspended in various media. The use of ACD-saline for resuspension markedly reduced in vitro haemolysis such that the red cells could be transfused up to 5 d after thawing. At this time the cells contained satisfactory...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Amer KA,Pepper DS,Prowse CV

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the kinetics of colony formation by progenitor cells in chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) using erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E) as a model system. For this, we scored the numbers of subcolonies produced by individual BFU-E in cultures of normal marrow and blood cells and in cultures of CML blo...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Marley SB,Lewis JL,Goldman JM,Gordon MY

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paediatric non-Hodgkin lymphomas (pNHL) are a diverse group of malignancies characterised by nodal and/or extranodal involvement. Less common pNHL forms include those derived from mature T- and natural killer (NK) cells. Much of our current understanding of paediatric mature (non-anaplastic) T/NK-cell lymphomas with r...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Xavier AC,Suzuki R

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T-cell large granular lymphocyte leukaemia (T-LGL) is a clonal disorder of T cells associated with neutropenia and anaemia. The clinical consequences are recurrent infections and transfusion dependence. The optimum treatment for severely affected patients remains to be defined. Current therapies require long-term admi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sternberg A,Eagleton H,Pillai N,Leyden K,Turner S,Pearson D,Littlewood T,Hatton C

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors affecting iron efflux from the isolated perfused rat liver were studied following the intravenous administration of transferrin-(59)Fe or transferrin-(55)Fe administered to the rat from 1.5 h to 3.5 d before perfusion of the liver. The liver was perfused with rat red cells suspended either in rat plasma or Eag...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Baker E,Morton AG,Tavill AS

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defects in glycoprotein (GP)IIb-IIIa or in its activation may cause abnormal platelet aggregation and a bleeding diathesis. We report studies in a 67-year-old man with a myeloproliferative disease and markedly abnormal platelet responses. By flow cytometry, platelet binding of two complex-specific anti-GPIIb-IIIa mono...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kaplan R,Gabbeta J,Sun L,Mao GF,Rao AK

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 750 previously untreated patients with multiple myeloma, 27 (4%) presented with plasma cell leukaemia. All but one patient had high tumour mass and, when compared with comparable patients without leukaemia, more frequent extraosseous involvement, thrombocytopenia, high serum lactate dehydrogenase and hypodiploid...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dimopoulos MA,Palumbo A,Delasalle KB,Alexanian R

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An indirect immunofluorescence technique with single and double labelling has been used to examine cultured human megakaryocytes for ABH antigens. This technique demonstrated the presence of these antigens on megakaryocytes and a population of small mononuclear cells that probably represent the differentiated precurso...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dunstan RA

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：SUMMARY:We report two patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) developing hypoplasia and karyotype conversion after conventional busulphan therapy. Initially, the percentage of Ph-positive metaphases in marrow for both patients was 100%, which steadily diminished up to a complete disappearance in case 1 and decrea...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Xue Y,Zhou XJ,Yu F,Gu J,Guo Y,Xie X,Lin B

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We treated 26 patients with hairy cell leukaemia (HCL) with 2-chlorodeoxyadenosine, including nine with abdominal lymphadenopathy and of whom two had HCL-variant; 18 were previously treated. The overall response in 23 evaluable HCL patients was 100% with 87% complete remission (CR). The CR rate was 57% in patients wit...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mercieca J,Matutes E,Emmett E,Coles H,Catovsky D

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Critically ill patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) present with hypoxaemia and are mechanically ventilated to support gas exchange. We performed a retrospective, observational study of blood gas analyses (n = 3518) obtained from patients with COVID-19 to investigate changes in haemoglobin oxygen (Hb-O2 )...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Vogel DJ,Formenti F,Retter AJ,Vasques F,Camporota L

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoid (GC) effects are mediated by the glucocorticoid receptor (GR). Several studies have demonstrated that a lower number of receptors per cell were associated with poor GC response. The regulation of GR expression is complex; the levels of GR can be autologously regulated by its ligand and also by transcrip...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sánchez-Vega B,Gandhi V

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sickle cell disease (SCD) affects approximately 100,000 people in the US, 12,500 in the UK, and millions worldwide. SCD is typified by painful vaso-occlusive episodes, haemolytic anaemia and organ damage. A secondary complication is infection, which can be bacterial, fungal or viral. Universal newborn screening, routi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sobota A,Sabharwal V,Fonebi G,Steinberg M

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulation activity and whole-blood viscosity were measured in the steady state, and serially during painful crisis, in eight patients with sickle-cell anaemia. Platelet and coagulation activation occurred in the steady state and became more pronounced early in crisis. Whole-blood viscosity increased during crisis in...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Richardson SG,Matthews KB,Stuart J,Geddes AM,Wilcox RM

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombopoietin (TPO) is the primary regulator of platelet production and acts through binding its receptor, c-mpl, found on megakaryocyte progenitor cells, megakaryocytes and platelets. Circulating levels of TPO are regulated primarily by the clearance of TPO after it binds to c-mpl receptors on circulating platelets....

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Li J,Xia Y,Kuter DJ

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00