Autoimmune haemolysis associated with Donath-Landsteiner antibodies.

abstract：:A 69-year-old woman presented with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) diagnosed after bone marrow recovery following intensive chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The retrospective diagnosis of initial blastic transformation of CLL was made. The patient eventually died, 5 months after initial blastic phase,...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Archimbaud E,Charrin C,Gentilhomme O,Rimokh R,Guyotat D,Fiere D,Germain D

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia/lymphoma (B-CLL) patient with an adrenocortical adenoma. He was treated initially with oral cyclophosphamide and prednisolone for 2 months, followed by low-dose prednisolone for an additional 2 years, which resulted in the prompt disappearance of CLL cells. After a per...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Adachi Y,Adachi M,Hinoda Y,Fukushima H,Takahashi T,Imai K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to define to which platelet components 75Se-methionine is bound after its injection to normal rats, and to study the curves of specific radioactivity of each labelled fraction. It has been shown that, for a part, platelet labelling is due to adsorption of plasma proteins (albumin and fibrinog...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Dassin E,Najean Y

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Philadelphia chromosome-negative myeloproliferative disorders (MPDs) polycythemia vera (PV), essential thrombocytosis (ET) and primary myelofibrosis (PMF) are characterized by increased proliferation of terminally differentiated myeloid cells. Although these disorders were recognized as clonal hematopoietic stem c...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Koppikar P,Levine RL

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN) is a rare and highly aggressive hematological malignancy derived from precursors of plasmacytoid dendritic cells. This disease typically presents with cutaneous involvement as the first manifestation, with subsequent or simultaneous spread to bone marrow and periphe...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Wang H,Cao J,Hong X

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of acquired haemophilia A presenting with extensive spontaneous bruising and anaemia is reported. The anaemia was due to myelodysplastic syndrome (FAB: refractory anaemia with ringed sideroblasts). A factor-VII:C-specific inhibitor was also found. Prednisone and pyridoxine were given, and the inhibitor became u...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Lin CK,Liang R,Liu HW,Tse PW,Chan GT

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Micromegakaryocytes (MMK) were defined morphologically by the cell area, nucleus form and cytoplasmic structure. Bone marrow smears of 7,156 patients were retrospectively analyzed. MMK were found most frequently and abundantly in acute non-lymphatic leukaemia, chronic myeloid leukaemia and pre-leukaemia. The presence ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Wiesneth M,Pflieger H,Kubanek B,Heimpel H

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-risk patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are inclined to long-term accumulation of iron in the organs due mostly to red blood cell transfusion and ineffective erythropoiesis. The effect of free toxic iron species in the liver and heart sites is well known, but recent knowledge assumes that oxidant-mediat...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Pilo F,Caocci G,Mele G,La Nasa G

更新日期：2020-10-02 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：: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：:In 34 patients with chronic lymphatic leukaemia (CLL) the lymphocytes have been separated and sized using a C1000 Channelyzer. The modal volume and the volume range of the populations have been obtained and related to clinical stage and mouse red blood cell (MRBC) rosetting capacity. Over 1 year's observation with sev...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Wastell HJ,Proctor SJ

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two pregnancies at risk for Fanconi's anemia have been monitored by a cytogenetic method in the first trimester of gestation. The rate of chromosome breakage was evaluated in spontaneous mitoses from a direct preparation of trophoblasts in one case and from mitoses obtained from standard cultures and from mitoses trea...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Dallapiccola B,Doria Lamba Carbone L,Ferranti G,Cristiani ML,Dagna Bricarelli F

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monocytoid B cell lymphoma (MBCL) is an immunologically and morphologically well-defined low-grade lymphoma with a predilection for lymph nodes of the parotid region. We describe an association of MBCL with anti-myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG) polyneuropathy in a 53-year-old male. The diagnosis of stage IV MBCL w...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Donfrid M,Apostolski S,Suvajdzić N,Janković G,Cemerikić-Martinović V,Atkinson HD,Colovic M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunologic abnormalities have been described in patients with Hodgkin lymphoma, including autoimmune hemolytic anemia and immune thrombocytopenic purpura. The concurrent diagnoses of Hodgkin lymphoma and acquired aplastic anemia, however, is extremely rare. We report a 56-year-old Japanese female patient with severe ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Saitoh T,Matsushima T,Yamane A,Sakuraya M,Irisawa H,Yokohama A,Handa H,Tsukamoto N,Karasawa M,Nojima Y,Murakami H

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Our aim is to determine comorbidities associated with pulmonary hypertension (PHT) in clinically stable sickle-cell disease (SCD) patients and to evaluate left ventricular (LV) and right ventricular (RV) function in those patients. METHODS:Echocardiography was performed in 87 SCD patients that were divided ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Akgül F,Yalçin F,Seyfeli E,Uçar E,Karazincir S,Balci A,Gali E

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we investigated the inhibitory natural killer cell receptor (NKR) expression of CD94/NKG2A on PBMC after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT). The proportion of CD94 expression on PBMC was higher in patients without chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) and also in cGVHD patients with...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Tanaka J,Tutumi Y,Zhang L,Mori A,Kahata K,Toyoshima N,Ohta S,Kobayashi S,Hashino S,Asaka M,Imamura M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyruvate kinase (PK) from four patients with moderate to severe congenital non-spherocytic haemolytic anaemia was characterized by methods recommended by the ICSH. The possibility that two of the patients are true homozygotes cannot be ruled out, while the other two apparently represent double heterozygotes. All but o...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Tegos C,Anagnostoulis G

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human beta-globin was produced in Escherichia coli as a cleavable fusion protein using the expression vector pLcII [Nagai and Thøgersen, Nature 301, p. 810, 1984]. The fusion protein CIIFX beta-globin was purified under denaturing conditions to homogeneity and the authentic beta-globin was liberated by blood coagulati...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Luisi BF,Nagai K,Perutz MF

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac scintigraphy has been performed in 60 beta-thalassaemia major patients aged 8-35 years who received regular blood transfusions and subcutaneous desferrioxamine (DFX) chelation. Fifty-seven showed no clinical, radiological or electrocardiographic evidence of heart disease and 3 had clinically apparent cardiac f...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Aldouri MA,Wonke B,Hoffbrand AV,Flynn DM,Ward SE,Agnew JE,Hilson AJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the chronic wound, the normal cascade of inflammation, granulation and reconstruction phases of healing is interrupted. Cytokines are now known to orchestrate different biochemical mediators resulting in the restoration of the healing phases. Growth factors may play a significant role in stimulating wound repair by...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Nath C,Gulati SC

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:10 patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria were studied taking 109 normal subjects of the Cuban population as control group. 26 HLA antigens corresponding to loci A and B were studied in both groups. Phenotypical frequency of both groups were compared. No statistically significant increase was found for any ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Ustariz CR,Arce S,Hernández P,Almaguer M,Pérez S,Ballester JM

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Red cell glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is an X-chromosomal-linked abnormality often associated with hemolytic anemia. The G6PD variants obtained from 2 unrelated males, one associated with enzyme deficiency and history of hemolytic jaundice, and the other associated with enzyme deficiency but no ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Sáenz GF,Chaves M,Berrantes A,Elizondo J,Montero AG,Yoshida A

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Not all patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) are candidates for aggressive regimens. (90)Y ibritumomab tiuxetan ((90)Y-IT), an anti-CD20 radionuclide-conjugated antibody, has demonstrated clinical efficacy in DLBCL with a favorable toxicity profile. METHODS:This phase II trial investigated th...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Arnason JE,Luptakova K,Rosenblatt J,Tzachanis D,Avigan D,Zwicker JI,Levine J,Kim M,Parker JA,Grant B,Joyce RM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eltrombopag is a thrombopoietin receptor agonist frequently used to manage immune thrombocytopenia and aplastic anemia. At the high doses used for aplastic anemia, but not the doses used for immune thrombocytopenia, eltrombopag can cause reddish-brown discoloration of plasma, which can interfere with bilirubin measure...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Al-Samkari H,Goodarzi K

更新日期：2020-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The first thrombocytopenia cases related to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were described even before its isolation in 1983. Subsequently, multiple mechanisms have been proposed to elucidate the etiology of thrombocytopenia. In addition to other types of cytopenia affecting patients with HIV, thrombocytopenia ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Passos AM,Treitinger A,Spada C

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monosomy 7 myelodysplasia is a rare hematological entity and is associated with morphological abnormalities in bone marrow and peripheral smear, and poor prognosis in children. We describe 2 children with infantile monosomy 7 myelodysplasia which evolved to leukemia. One of them died after 1 month, and the other is st...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Yeşilipek MA,Lüleci G,Velipaşaoğlu S,Berker S,Yeğin O

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor VIII (FVIII) inhibitor antibodies are produced against functional epitopes of FVIII in about 30% of severe hemophilia A patients leading to inhibition of its procoagulant activity. The Bethesda assay, the most commonly used method to measure FVIII inhibitors, based on inhibition of coagulant activity of FVIII, ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Towfighi F,Gharagozlou S,Sharifian RA,Kazemnejad A,Esmailzadeh K,Managhchi MR,Shokri F

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case with the clinical and pathological impression of Ph1-positive chronic myelogenous leukemia in extramedullary blast crisis involving lymph nodes as demonstrated by morphological and cytogenetic studies. The hyperploid cell lines that were present in the lymph node were not present in the bone marrow. ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Velasquez ET,Verma RS,Krishnamurthy M,Dosik H

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increased bone marrow (BM) apoptosis is one of the mechanisms responsible for the ineffective hematopoiesis of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). It is controversial whether the excessive apoptosis in myelodysplasia predominantly involves the subset of progenitor cells or of maturing cells. We investigated the degree...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Pecci A,Travaglino E,Klersy C,Invernizzi R

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00