Globin gene mapping in normal Hb A2 types of beta-thalassaemia.

abstract：:We describe a patient with a 9-year history of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) who exhibited four relapses. Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) was effective for these four episodes. The patient was well and the laboratory findings were within normal ranges between each episode, although unusually large von Wi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kondo H,Imamura T

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and the mixed myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative disorder juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia (JMML) are rare haematopoietic stem cell diseases in children. While MDS-initiating events remain largely obscure, a growing body of clinical, genetic and laboratory evidence suggests that JMML i...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Niemeyer CM,Kratz CP

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), a malignancy of B-lymphocytes, has a poor prognosis. It is thus necessary to improve the understanding of the pathobiology of MCL and identify factors contributing to its aggressiveness. Our studies, based on Affymetrix data from 17 MCL biopsies, real-time quantitative polymerase chain reac...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mundt F,Merrien M,Nygren L,Sutton LA,Christensson B,Wahlin BE,Rosenquist R,Sander B,Wasik AM

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor VIII (FVIII) inhibitors appear in 3-20% of haemophilia A patients after injection of FVIII concentrates. However, autoantibodies to FVIII are also reported in non-haemophiliacs. In these patients FVIII inhibitor disappears spontaneously or diminishes in response to immunosuppressive therapy. However, a few pati...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sunagawa T,Uezu Y,Kadena K,Tokuyama K,Kinjo F,Saito A

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-six patients with relapsed or refractory Hodgkin's disease (HD) were treated with an intensive salvage regimen combining ifosfamide (3000 mg/m2/d, days 1-4 through continuous intravenous infusion) and vinorelbine (25 mg/m2, i.v. days 1 and 5) with mesna uroprotection and G-CSF support. Courses were given at 3-w...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bonfante V,Viviani S,Santoro A,Devizzi L,Di Russo A,Zanini M,Soncini F,Soto Parra H,Valagussa P,Bonadonna G

更新日期：1998-11-01 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：:Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is a rare autosomal dominant genetic disorder clinically characterized by recurrent attacks of subcutaneous and mucosal swelling that can result in significant morbidity and even mortality. Several novel therapies introduced since 2008 have dramatically transformed the approach to managemen...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Zuraw BL,Christiansen SC

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of two different types of alpha globin gene quadruplication is reported. One with the alpha alpha alpha alpha (anti 3.7)/haplotype was present in four members of a Black family from Georgia, while a second with the alpha alpha alpha alpha (anti 4.2)/haplotype was observed in two members of an Indonesian ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gu YC,Landman H,Huisman TH

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minimal residual disease (MRD) assessment is a powerful prognostic factor for determining the risk of relapse in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). In this Swedish multi-centre study of childhood ALL diagnosed between 2002 and 2006, the MRD levels were analysed in 726 follow-up samples in 228 children usin...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Thörn I,Forestier E,Botling J,Thuresson B,Wasslavik C,Björklund E,Li A,Lindström-Eriksson E,Malec M,Grönlund E,Torikka K,Heldrup J,Abrahamsson J,Behrendtz M,Söderhäll S,Jacobsson S,Olofsson T,Porwit A,Lönnerholm G,R

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survivin is overexpressed in several types of haematological malignancies making it an attractive target for therapeutic cytotoxic T-lymphocyte responses. Here, we identify two peptide epitopes derived from the murine survivin protein and demonstrate that Balb/c mice treated with syngeneic dendritic cells pulsed with ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Siegel S,Wagner A,Schmitz N,Zeis M

更新日期：2003-09-01 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：:A 14-month-old child who had a haemolytic episode when he was 5 years old, and with psychomotor retardation, was found to have decreased red cell hexokinase activity. The mutant enzyme was characterized by an increased affinity for glucose associated with an increased inhibition constant for glucose-1,6-diphosphate. A...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Magnani M,Stocchi V,Canestrari F,Dachà M,Balestri P,Farnetani MA,Giorgi D,Fois A,Fornaini G

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the use of a simple charcoal product (DOAC-RemoveTM ) to allow haemostasis assays on patients taking direct oral anticoagulants (DOAC). In the proposed algorithm, patients taking DOAC are screened using the dilute thrombin time (dTT) and anti-Xa assay. If either are positive then DOAC-Remove is ut...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cox-Morton S,MacDonald S,Thomas W

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steady-state haemoglobin (Hb) desaturation is a common finding in sickle cell anaemia (Hb SS) that could predispose to stroke by limiting oxygen delivery to the brain. To determine its association with the risk of overt stroke, we examined the relationship between daytime Hb saturation measured by pulse oximetry (SpO(...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Quinn CT,Variste J,Dowling MM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although traditional anticoagulant regimens are highly effective and safe in most patients with venous thromboembolism (VTE), the aggressive natural history of VTE and the high risk of serious bleeding in cancer patients can complicate the management of VTE. In addition, because few clinical trials have focused on the...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lee AY

更新日期：2005-02-01 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：:The Philadelphia (Ph) translocation, t(9:22)(q 34:q11), is found in the majority of patients with chronic myelogenous leukaemia (CML) as well as in approximately 20% of adult acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) patients. The chromosome 22 breakpoint in CML has been localized within a restricted 5.8 kb segment of DNA k...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kurzrock R,Shtalrid M,Gutterman JU,Koller CA,Walters R,Trujillo JM,Talpaz M

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a patient with both haemophagocytic syndrome and acute myocarditis probably associated with parvovirus B19 infection. The patient had a marked neutrophilia instead of neutropenia more usually observed in virus-associated haemophagocytic syndrome (VAHS). Endogenous serum concentrations of macrophage colony-...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tsuda H,Maeda Y,Nakagawa K,Nakayama M,Nishimura H,Ishihara A,Miyayama H

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activities of the red cell enzymes hexokinase, glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase, 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, lactic dehydrogenase and aspartate aminotransferase were measured in 17 chronic haemodialysis patients receiving androgen therapy, 15 untreated chronic haemodialysis patients and 15 normal subjects. Comp...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Solomon LR,Hendler ED

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During periods of immunosuppression, such as postallogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT), patients are at significant risk for severe viral infections. Human adenovirus (HAdV) infection is a serious complication post-SCT, especially in children. Virus-specific T cells are essential for the clearance of HAdV, as ant...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Feuchtinger T,Matthes-Martin S,Richard C,Lion T,Fuhrer M,Hamprecht K,Handgretinger R,Peters C,Schuster FR,Beck R,Schumm M,Lotfi R,Jahn G,Lang P

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We retrospectively report data on 28 patients with haematological malignancy and trisomy 13 (25 cases) or tetrasomy 13 (three cases) as the primary acquired cytogenetic change. Peripheral blood and/or bone marrow morphology was reviewed in 25/28 cases and the final diagnosis was as follows: AML M0 (11), AML M1 (6), AM...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mehta AB,Bain BJ,Fitchett M,Shah S,Secker-Walker LM

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sialic acid-binding immunoglobulin-like lectin (Siglec)-5 or CD170 is a CD33-related receptor, containing cytoplasmic immune receptor-based tyrosine signalling motifs, that has previously been reported to be myeloid-specific like CD33 and thus may be useful in the characterization of both normal and malignant haemopoi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Virgo P,Denning-Kendall PA,Erickson-Miller CL,Singha S,Evely R,Hows JM,Freeman SD

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An association between chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and clonal proliferation of B cells, including B cell lymphoma, has recently been demonstrated. However, the mechanism of malignant transformation is still unknown. It has been shown that B cells from patients with type II mixed cryoglobulinaemia (MC), s...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Zuckerman E,Zuckerman T,Sahar D,Streichman S,Attias D,Sabo E,Yeshurun D,Rowe J

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parameters of host defence were investigated in 30 patients with sickle cell disease (SCD). A newly devised perfusion system was used to study the kinetics in whole blood of leucocyte adherence, phagocytosis, killing and solubilization of a mixture of Staph. aureus and Str. pneumoniae, and secretion of lactoferrin. A ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Boghossian SH,Wright G,Webster AD,Segal AW

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterozygosity for a C8524T transition in the protein C gene converting Ser270(TCG) to Leu(TTG) in the protease domain was identified in a family with venous thrombosis. The mutation was associated with parallel reduction in plasma levels of protein C anticoagulant activity and protein C antigen, which is consistent w...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lind B,Koefoed P,Thorsen S

更新日期：2001-06-01 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：:Using Southern blot, the restriction digests of genomic DNAs in 11 patients with Glanzmann thrombasthenia from 10 unrelated kindreds were probed with a full-length GPIIb cDNA. An additional 2.3 kb Taq I fragment and two 1.65 kb and 0.65 kb fragments with reduced band intensity were found in the genes of two affected s...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gu JM,Xu WF,Wang XD,Wu QY,Chi CW,Ruan CG

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro effects of a range of concentrations of cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, actinomycin D, cytarabine and methotrexate on neutrophil phagocytosis of C. albicans was studied. The reduction in phagocytic index (PI) was inversely proportional to the dilution of the drug and there was some inhibition of phagocytos...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Davies JE,Whittaker JA,Khurshid M

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) is a serious form of acquired haemolytic anaemia with several features that make it unique, including the fact that it is caused by clonal expansion, in the context of bone marrow failure, of a haematopoietic stem cell that has a somatic mutation in a gene crucial for the syn...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Luzzatto L,Gianfaldoni G,Notaro R

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human blood platelets were stored in autologous plasma at 4 degrees C or 22 degrees C and their surface changes were probed with three lectins--wheat germ agglutinin, lentil lectin and concanavalin A. Platelets stored at either temperature for different times showed increased sensitivity to lectins. Lectins which were...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dhar A,Ganguly P

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00