Surgery in hemophilia. The general view: patient selection, timing, and preoperative assessment.

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：: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：:Thrombocytopenia is one of the most common reasons for inpatient hematology consultations. The main challenges in the management of hospitalized patients with thrombocytopenia are to identify the underlying cause and to recognize when urgent interventions are required. Examination of the blood film is essential in the...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Arnold DM,Lim W

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the era of modern communication, the physician and patient relationship has evolved to include an entirely new dimension-social media. This new dimension offers several opportunities for patient education, research and its dissemination, and professional development for health care providers; it can also serve as a...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Abuhadra N,Majhail NS,Nazha A

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is probably the best understood human malignancy at the molecular level, but among the hardest to explain to patients concerning appropriate treatment options. At present, we do not know the long-term outcome of promising new therapies such as the tyrosine kinase inhibitor imatinib mesyl...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Appelbaum FR

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The farnesyltransferase inhibitors (FTIs) have been shown in early clinical trials to elicit antitumor actions in a broad range of solid and hematologic malignancies. The mechanism of FTI action involves blockade of farnesyltransferase, an enzyme implicated in multiple cell-signaling pathways involved in proliferation...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Cortes JE,Kurzrock R,Kantarjian HM

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) is a major risk factor for graft loss following kidney transplantation. Traditional anti-humoral therapies provide suboptimal therapy and they do not deplete plasma cells, which are the source of antibody production. Proteasome inhibitors (PI) have been shown to deplete both transform...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Sadaka B,Alloway RR,Shields AR,Schmidt NM,Woodle ES

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psoralens plus ultraviolet A (UVA) light inactivate viruses and bacteria as well as leukocytes. A system employing the synthetic psoralen compound amotosalen hydrochloride (S-59), in combination with UVA light, is being developed to decontaminate platelet concentrates and plasma in a blood-bank setting. S-59 is a hete...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Wollowitz S

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prolonged and severe myelosuppression associated with high-dose chemotherapy and autologous bone marrow transplantation is a major causative factor in patient morbidity and mortality resulting from infection and other causes. The recent molecular cloning, in vitro expression, and formulation of recombinant human c...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Peters WP

更新日期：1989-04-01 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：:Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) has only recently been recognized as a separate biologically defined lymphoma entity. Due to its low incidence, many reports on clinical prognostic factors are limited by small patient numbers. The MCL International Prognostic Index (MIPI) was developed using data of more than 400 patients t...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Hoster E

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：:Analysis of data from 806 patients with newly diagnosed adult acute myelocytic leukemia (AML) (not including acute promyelocytic leukemia [APL] patients) treated at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center from 1995 through 1999 indicated that among patients entering a particular week of induction therapy, mortality rates were 6%,...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Estey E

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From a computational perspective, Bayesian methods can be viewed as a natural extension of familiar confidence intervals and significance tests, which sheds light on their meaning. This viewpoint shows that no special software is required to compute Bayesian results, leaving the distinctions between conventional and B...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Greenland S

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：: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：:Macrocytic anemia, defined as a mean cell volume (MCV) ≥100 fL in adults, has a narrow differential diagnosis that requires evaluation of the peripheral blood smear as well as additional laboratory testing taken in conjunction with clinical information that includes patient history and physical examination findings. T...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Green R,Dwyre DM

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of antibody-coated platelet destruction in patients with immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is a well-known mechanism of treatment effect. A number of interventions that would ameliorate the thrombocytopenic effect of ITP patient plasma when infused into normal recipients were demonstrated in 1965. Subse...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Bussel JB

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemangiomas and lymphangiomas are two main types of angiomatous disease that occur most commonly in infancy and childhood. Most hemangiomas resolve spontaneously, but some endanger vital structures such as the lung, as in pulmonary hemangiomatosis, a rare and universally fatal disease. Occasionally, hemangiomatous les...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： White CW

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multicenter clinical trial of the thrombin inhibitor argatroban (Novastan; Texas Biotechnology, Houston, TX; Smith-Kline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, Philadelphia, PA) was recently conducted in patients with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) and HIT that had progressed to thrombosis (HITTS). In patients defined by ...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Walenga JM,Jeske WP,Wood JJ,Ahmad S,Lewis BE,Bakhos M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytogenetic data suggest that acute myeloid leukemia (AML) develops through a process of branching evolution, especially during relapse and progression. Recent genomic data from AML cases using digital sequencing, temporal comparisons, xenograft cloning, and single-cell analysis indicate that most, if not all, AML cas...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Welch JS

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imatinib mesylate (Gleevec, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp, East Hanover, NJ; Glivec, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland), a signal transduction inhibitor with preferential effects against the tyrosine kinase activity of the protein product of the ABL proto-oncogene, induced hematologic responses in >or=90% of pati...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Hoelzer D,Gökbuget N,Ottmann OG

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central hypothesis of our laboratory research program in large granular lymphocyte (LGL) leukemia is that leukemic LGL represent antigen-driven cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) with characteristics of dysregulated apoptosis. The clinical features of LGL leukemia highlight the association of autoimmune diseases such a...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Epling-Burnette PK,Loughran TP Jr

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study was conducted to determine treatment patterns for idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura (ITP) across the US and to determine the cost of its treatment with high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) and anti-D therapy. Information on the incidence, treatment patterns, hospital care, and costs for ...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Simpson KN,Coughlin CM,Eron J,Bussel JB

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imatinib (Gleevec) (formerly STI571) is an orally bioavailable rationally developed inhibitor of the tyrosine kinases Bcr-Abl, Kit, and platelet-derived growth factor receptor (PDGFR). In 4 years of clinical development, more than 12,000 patients have been treated in the clinical development program. Imatinib was firs...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Capdeville R,Silberman S

更新日期：2003-04-01 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：:The successful clinical development of thalidomide, bortezomib, and lenalidomide not only transformed the therapeutic management of multiple myeloma (MM) but also catalyzed a renewed interest in the development of additional classes of novel agents for this disease. This review focuses on a series of new therapeutics ...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Mitsiades CS,Hideshima T,Chauhan D,McMillin DW,Klippel S,Laubach JP,Munshi NC,Anderson KC,Richardson PG

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In both normal and abnormal vascular biology, platelet-leukocyte-RBC-EC adhesive and functional interactions appear to play a significant role. The clinical hallmarks of the TTP/HUS syndromes, including prominent platelet aggregation and thrombi without prominent soluble coagulation system activation along with microa...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Smith BR,Rinder HM

更新日期：1997-04-01 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：:There is consensus that human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) is a necessary, albeit not sufficient, causal agent of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS). In the past several years, there have been rapid advances in our understanding of HHV-8 infection. In diagnosis, antibody detection is more sensitive than nucleic acid-based techniques. Whi...

journal_title：Seminars in hematology

authors： Martin JN

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00