Myelomatosis and the hyperviscosity syndrome.

abstract：:Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common cardiac arrhythmia with a 5-20% annual risk of stroke. Warfarin reduces this risk by at least 60%. Despite adequate anticoagulation within the target International Normalized Ratio (INR) range of 2.0-3.0, some patients still experience thrombotic and bleeding events. It is now poss...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gatt A,van Veen JJ,Bowyer A,Woolley AM,Cooper P,Kitchen S,Makris M

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the additional benefit of Technetium(99)-sestamibi (99mTc-MIBI) scanning in comparison with standard X-ray techniques for multiple myeloma patients either at diagnosis or during follow-up. Between February 2001 and January 2005, 397 whole body scans were acquired. On 229 scans performed at diagnosis, 146 ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mele A,Offidani M,Visani G,Marconi M,Cambioli F,Nonni M,Catarini M,Brianzoni E,Berbellini A,Ascoli G,Brunori M,Agostini V,Corvatta L,Isidori A,Spinelli A,Gradari M,Leoni P

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chimaerism was studied early (2 weeks to 3 months) during haematopoietic reconstitution after bone marrow transplantation in 18 severe aplastic anaemia patients (acquired SAA: 14 patients; Fanconi anaemia: four patients). Fourteen patients received marrow from an identical sibling donor, one from the phenoidentical fa...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Socié G,Landman J,Gluckman E,Devergie A,Raynal B,Esperou-Bourdeau H,Brison O

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the past years, several authors have used labelled leucocytes to detect inflammatory foci. However, before routine use in man. It is necessary to control the viability of labelled cells. Five leucocyte labelling techniques (111In-oxine, 111In-oxine without extraction, 99mTc oxine, pyrophosphate 99mTc, 51Cr) wer...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Colas-Linhart N,Barbu M,Gougerot MA,Bok B

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients are at risk of mucositis and infections in the oral cavity during the neutropenic period after chemotherapy, which are significant causes of morbidity. In phase I/II studies with the haemopoietic growth factor granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF), a reduction in post-chemotherapy mucositis has been o...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lieschke GJ,Ramenghi U,O'Connor MP,Sheridan W,Szer J,Morstyn G

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adults with acute leukaemia and abnormalities of chromosome 11q23 have a poor prognosis when treated with conventional chemotherapy. To determine whether more intensive therapy can improve outcome for patients with this karyotypic finding, a retrospective analysis of all patients with acute leukaemia and 11q23 abnorma...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Forrest DL,Nevill TJ,Horsman DE,Brockington DA,Fung HC,Toze CL,Conneally EA,Hogge DE,Sutherland HJ,Nantel SH,Shepherd JD,Barnett MJ

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two British families with similar, dominantly-inherited, temperature-related variants of hereditary stomatocytosis, consistent with the original description of 'cryohydrocytosis'. The cells show a 5-6-fold increase in passive permeability at 37 degrees C with abnormal intracellular Na and K levels at 15-20...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Coles SE,Chetty MC,Ho MM,Nicolaou A,Kearney JW,Wright SD,Stewart GW

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The very poor outcome of invasive fungal infections (IFI) in patients with haematological malignancies or recipients of haematopoietic stem cell transplantation is largely attributed to their compromised host defence mechanisms. The restoration or augmentation of immune responses in these patients is now considered as...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Antachopoulos C,Roilides E

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence regarding the efficacy of gemtuzumab ozogamicin (GO) addition to standard induction chemotherapy in newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is conflicting. This systematic review aimed to identify and summarize all evidence regarding the benefits and harms of adding GO to conventional chemotherapy for i...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kharfan-Dabaja MA,Hamadani M,Reljic T,Pyngolil R,Komrokji RS,Lancet JE,Fernandez HF,Djulbegovic B,Kumar A

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The available data on rituximab in combination with chemotherapy confirm that the addition of an independently active biological agent to full-dose standard chemotherapy results in higher rates of complete response, lower rates of relapse, prolonged survival, little additional toxicity and no compromise of the dose in...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Pettengell R,Linch D,Haemato-Oncology Task Force of the British Committee for Standards in Haematology.

更新日期：2003-04-01 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

abstract：:Purpura fulminans (PF) is a cutaneous manifestation of a dramatic and deadly syndrome of systemic disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). It is characterized by microvascular thrombosis in the dermis followed by perivascular haemorrhage. Since two other related syndromes involve the protein C (PC) system, we und...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Madden RM,Gill JC,Marlar RA

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relapsed or refractory (R/R) diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) in those unfit or ineligible for autologous stem cell transplantation is associated with a poor outcome and new treatment approaches are needed. Pixantrone is a novel aza-anthracenedione which is structurally similar to anthracyclines and is licenced i...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Eyre TA,Linton KM,Rohman P,Kothari J,Cwynarski K,Ardeshna K,Bailey C,Osborne WL,Rowntree C,Eden D,Shankara P,Eyre DW,Jasani P,Chaidos A,Collins GP,Hatton CS

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various techniques have been used to assess the flow properties of blood and blood cells in a range of clinical situations. Filtration through microfilters offers a single technique for measuring the flow properties of all cellular components of blood in one experiment but depends on an assumed ability to recognize ce...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Jones JG,Adams RA,Cook AM,Evans SA

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T-cell large granular lymphocytic leukaemia (T-LGLL) is a chronic clonal lymphoproliferative disorder of cytotoxic T lymphocytes which commonly occurs in older patients and is often associated with autoimmune diseases. Among 246 patients with T-LGLL seen at our institution over the last 10 years, we encountered 15 cas...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Awada H,Mahfouz RZ,Durrani J,Kishtagari A,Jagadeesh D,Lichtin AE,Hill BT,Hamilton BK,Carraway HE,Nazha A,Majhail NS,Sobecks R,Visconte V,Kalaycio M,Sekeres MA,Maciejewski JP

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human amniotic fluid has been shown to contain blood group i as well as I antigens. Crude extracts of amniotic fluids at 16-23 weeks of gestation were in general more active than those obtained at term. A pool of amniotic fluids which had A, B, H as well as I and i activity was fractionated with an insolubilized anti-...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Feizi T,Cederqvist LL,Childs R

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Death during the induction phase of chemotherapy remains a common event in patients with aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). In a series of patients with aggressive NHL homogeneously treated with intensive induction chemotherapy [ACVB (doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, vindesine, bleomycin, prednisone) regimen], we ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dumontet C,Mounier N,Munck JN,Bosly A,Morschauser F,Simon D,Marit G,Casasnovas O,Reman O,Molina T,Reyes F,Coiffier B

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of indolent B-chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (B-CLL) in a stage A patient, treated for 10 years only by theophylline for bronchial asthma. As suggested by the spontaneous apoptosis in the patient's blood (10%), theophylline at 50 micrograms/ml increased spontaneous apoptosis after 72 h in culture by a ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mentz F,Merle-Beral H,Ouaaz F,Binet JL

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombotic events are common in patients with multiple myeloma (MM), smouldering myeloma (SM) and monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS). Previous studies have indicated platelet hyperactivation as a feature of thrombotic risk in MM, but there is a dearth of data in MGUS. In the present study, multi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： O'Sullivan LR,Meade-Murphy G,Gilligan OM,Mykytiv V,Young PW,Cahill MR

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence of functional gap junctions between haematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs) and stromal cells of the haematopoietic microenvironment in the human system is a controversial issue. Primary CD34+ HPCs isolated from leukapheresis products were co-incubated with the human fibroblastoid bone marrow stromal cell...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dürig J,Rosenthal C,Halfmeyer K,Wiemann M,Novotny J,Bingmann D,Dührsen U,Schirrmacher K

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF)-induced alteration of phosphoprotein during differentiation of HL-60 cells was studied. From the two-dimensional gel electrophoresis analysis of phosphoproteins, a 45 kD phosphoprotein in the cytosolic fraction of DMSO-pretreated HL-60 cells was rapidly dephosphorylated by...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Yamaguchi T,Oshizawa T,Yamaguchi T,Suzuki K,Yamamoto Y,Hayakawa T

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:125I IgG anti-D binding to reticulocytes obtained by density fractionation is reduced relative to that bound to all other red cell (RBC) fractions. Maximum D antigen reactivity occurs following reticulocyte maturation with no detectable change in D reactivity of mature RBC throughout their life span. Reticulocytes hav...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gray LS,Kleeman JE,Masouredis SP

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblasts grown from the bone marrow of normal individuals and incubated with colony-stimulating factor (CSF) enhance the stimulating activity of this CSF on granulocyte-macrophage colony-forming cell (GM-CFC) proliferation. For this study, the ability of fibroblast monolayers grown from the marrows of six patients ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gordon MY,Gordon-Smith EC

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sickle cell anaemia (SS) and sickle cell-haemoglobin C disease (SC) patients exhibit severe red blood cell (RBC) rheological alterations involved in the development of several complications. The contribution of oxidative stress in these haemorheological abnormalities is still unknown. We compared RBC reactive oxygen s...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hierso R,Waltz X,Mora P,Romana M,Lemonne N,Connes P,Hardy-Dessources MD

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An elderly patient with no abnormal bleeding presented with prolongation of the activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT). Preincubation of plasma with aPTT reagent caused shortening of the abnormal clotting time. Plasma prekallikrein (PK) activity and antigen were <5 u/dL. Molecular analysis showed a homozygous Ar...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Wynne Jones D,Russell G,Allford SL,Burdon K,Hawkins GA,Bowden DW,Minaee S,Mumford AD

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe eight patients (four children and four adults) with an acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) with cytoplasmic granules or inclusions. The incidence of this variant of acute leukaemia in our whole series of patients with ALL is 1.8%. The granules or inclusions were usually positive for aspecific esterases (AN...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cantù-Rajnoldi A,Invernizzi R,Biondi A,Banfi P,Zoia A,De Fazio P,Polli N

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A woman with Ph-positive chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) with an atypical e1a3 BCR-ABL hybrid gene is described. To our knowledge, this is the first report of this transcript type as a unique naturally occurring BCR-ABL fusion in a CML patient. This case was characterized by a low leucocyte count and a very indolent c...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Roman J,Jimenez A,Barrios M,Castillejo JA,Maldonado J,Torres A

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a retrospective analysis of outcome in 45 patients with multiple myeloma receiving unrelated donor stem cell transplants (UD-SCT) in the UK between 1993 and 2002; 17 received myeloablative conditioning regimens and 28 received reduced intensity conditioning (RIC) protocols. Forty patients received pretran...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Shaw BE,Peggs K,Bird JM,Cavenagh J,Hunter A,Alejandro Madrigal J,Russell NH,Sirohi B,Towlson K,Williams CD,Marks DI,Clinical Trials Committee of the British Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation.

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The laboratory diagnosis of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is based on an enzyme immunoassay combined with a functional test, and serotonin release assay (SRA) is the gold standard for detecting activating HIT antibodies. However, a recent atypical history of HIT prompted us to evaluate whether addition of pla...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Vayne C,Guery EA,Kizlik-Masson C,Rollin J,Bauters A,Gruel Y,Pouplard C

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the impact of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections that occur after human leucocyte antigen (HLA)-matched unrelated donor (MUD) non-myleoablative haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT). We analysed the incidence, onset and outcomes of CMV infections in 59 recipients of MUD and in 109 recipien...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Junghanss C,Storb R,Maris MB,Carter RA,Sandmaier BM,Maloney DG,McSweeney PA,Corey L,Boeckh M

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00