Cytogenetic studies in splenic lymphoma with villous lymphocytes.

abstract：:Thirty-four patients with refractory multiple myeloma were treated with 4-d continuous infusions of vincristine and adriamycin in combination with 4-d pulsed high-dose dexamethasone (VAD). Of 31 evaluable patients, 16 entered a complete remission (50%) and three a partial remission (10%). No difference in response rat...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lokhorst HM,Meuwissen OJ,Bast EJ,Dekker AW

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dependence of survival time on a set of prognostic factors was explored by means of Cox's regression model in 137 cases of myelofibrosis with myeloid metaplasia (MMM). The following parameters recorded at diagnosis proved to be important independent indicators of a poor prognosis: a higher value for age, a lower v...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Barosi G,Berzuini C,Liberato LN,Costa A,Polino G,Ascari E

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the molecular basis of factor VII deficiency in a Japanese patient and identified a novel missense mutation in the signal sequence of the gene. Factor VII activity and antigen level measured in the patient were 10.7% and 11% of normal, respectively. All exons except 1B and the 5'-flanking region contai...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ozawa T,Takikawa Y,Niiya K,Ejiri N,Suzuki K,Sato S,Sakuragawa N

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of factor IX gene polymorphisms is considered the best approach for prenatal diagnosis and carrier detection of haemophilia B when the identification of the gene mutation is not possible. Studies involving factor IX gene polymorphisms in Black populations are scarce and essentially restricted to the North-Ame...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Figueiredo MS,Bowen DJ,Silva Júnior WA,Zago MA

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is little information published comparing peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) with bone marrow (BM) as the stem cell source in the long-term outcome in recipients of T-cell depleted (TCD) unrelated donor (UD) transplants. We present retrospective outcome data on 306 recipients of myeloablative, human leucocyte an...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Shaw BE,Apperley JF,Russell NH,Craddock C,Liakopoulou E,Potter MN,Wynn R,Gibson B,Pearce RM,Kirkland K,Lee J,Madrigal JA,Cook G,Byrne JL

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Splenic lymphoma with villous lymphocytes (SLVL) is a low-grade B-cell lymphoproliferative disorder characterized by splenomegaly and circulating villous lymphocytes. The relationship between SLVL and splenic marginal zone lymphoma (SMZL), a disorder with identical splenic histology to SLVL, is not clear. Previous stu...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gruszka-Westwood AM,Matutes E,Coignet LJ,Wotherspoon A,Catovsky D

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel therapies with increased efficacy and decreased toxicity are desperately needed for the treatment of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). The anti CD33 immunoconjugate, gemtuzumab ozogamicin (GO), was withdrawn with concerns over induction mortality and lack of efficacy. However a number of recent trials suggest that,...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gasiorowski RE,Clark GJ,Bradstock K,Hart DN

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activating mutations of NOTCH1 are a common occurrence in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL), but its impact on T-ALL treatment is still controversial. In this study, the incidence, clinical features, and prognosis of 92 Chinese children with T-ALL treated using the Beijing Children's Hospital-2003 and Chine...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gao C,Liu SG,Zhang RD,Li WJ,Zhao XX,Cui L,Wu MY,Zheng HY,Li ZG

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multicentre modified World Health Organization (WHO)-type international sensitivity index (ISI) calibration has been performed at 10 European Concerted Action on Anticoagulation (ECAA) national laboratories using non-citrated whole-blood on two point-of-care test (POCT) prothrombin time (PT) monitor systems, CoaguCh...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Poller L,Keown M,Chauhan N,van Den Besselaar AM,Tripodi A,Jespersen J,Shiach C,Horellou MH,Dias D,Egberg N,Iriarte JA,Kontopoulou-Griva I,Otridge B

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:18F-fluoro-deoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) might be a better tool than computerized tomography (CT) in predicting long-term treatment outcome in patients with relapsed chemosensitive lymphoma who are candidates for autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT). We studied patients with recurrent or...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Schot B,van Imhoff G,Pruim J,Sluiter W,Vaalburg W,Vellenga E

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of the VAV proto-oncogene in 57 patients with chronic myeloproliferative disease (CMD), B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (B-ALL) and B-cell non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (B-NHL), and 61 with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (B-CLL) was analysed. VAV overexpression was observed in 19.5% of cases and 81% o...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Prieto-Sánchez RM,Hernández JA,García JL,Gutiérrez NC,San Miguel J,Bustelo XR,Hernández JM

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of bone marrow transplantation (BMT) in patients with Fanconi's anaemia (FA) in transformation are very poor and only a few cases with favourable outcome have been reported. We present the follow-up of two FA-myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) patients with monosomy 7 and complex karyotype implicating chromosome 1...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ortega M,Caballín MR,Ortega JJ,Olive T,Coll MD

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A child of Italian origin with a congenital haemolytic anaemia had spectrophotometrically undetectable erythrocyte adenylate kinase (AK) activity. Her parents and brother had approximately 50% normal AK activity, and AK electrophoresis of red blood cell (RBC) crude extract on cellulose acetate strips showed the presen...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Qualtieri A,Pedace V,Bisconte MG,Bria M,Gulino B,Andreoli V,Brancati C

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously thought to be best described as a plasma cell disorder, Waldenström macroglobulinaemia (WM) is now understood to be a distinct clinicobiological entity. WM shares B-cell origin and certain other features with both chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) and multiple myeloma (MM). WM and CLL arise from B-cells a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： McMaster ML,Caporaso N

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-dose cytosine arabinoside (AraC)-containing regimens have shown the highest antileukaemic efficacy of all currently used regimens in the treatment of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). This study aimed at increasing the antileukaemic potential of high-dose AraC by raising intracellular levels of AraC triphosphate (Ar...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Braess J,Wegendt C,Jahns-Streubel G,Kern W,Keye S,Unterhalt M,Schleyer E,Hiddemann W

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UK National External Quality Assessment Service surveys indicate continuing problems in malaria diagnosis: inaccurate calculation of parasitaemia or failure to estimate it altogether, difficulty distinguishing Plasmodium vivax from P. ovale, reporting malaria parasites when none were present and misidentification of P...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bailey JW,Williams J,Bain BJ,Parker-Williams J,Chiodini PL,General Haematology Task Force of the British Committee for Standards in Haematology.

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on two adult patients with CD10+ positive acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) who presented with similar clinical and laboratory features and with a new chromosomal translocation: t(3;17)(q23;q21). This translocation may be involved in the formation of a new chimaeric transcription factor. Both patients shar...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Raanani P,Berkowicz M,Rosner E,Rosenthal E,Berman S,Rechavi G,Ben-Bassat I

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response to 0.8 ml of D-positive (ccDEE) red cells injected i.v., together with 1 microgram anti-D i.m., was studied in 13 D-negative male volunteers (test subjects); the red cells were labelled with 51Cr and were found to have a mean survival time of 24 d, after correction for Cr elution. Within the following 5 m...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Contreras M,Mollison PL

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleiotrophin (PTN), a tightly regulated angiogenic and mitogenic heparin-binding protein, is markedly elevated in a variety of aggressive solid tumours. The role of PTN in haematological malignancies, however, has not been previously evaluated. This study demonstrated that PTN serum levels were elevated in multiple my...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Yeh HS,Chen H,Manyak SJ,Swift RA,Campbell RA,Wang C,Li M,Lee HJ,Waterman G,Gordon MS,Ma J,Bonavida B,Berenson JR

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously established a serum-free (SF) culture medium, which supports normal haemopoietic progenitor cell growth for at least 4 weeks as does conventional serum dependent (SD) medium. In the present study, we investigated the efficacy of such a defined SF liquid medium which sustained in vitro residual norma...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Da WM,Douay L,Barbu V,Fabrega S,Allieri MA,Drouet X,Deloux J,Giarratana MC,Ozsahin H,van den Akker J,Vanhaeke D,Gorin NC

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minimal (i.e. submicroscopic) residual disease (MRD) predicts outcome in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). To be used clinically, MRD assays must be reliable and accurate. Two well-established techniques, flow cytometry (FC) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR), can detect leukaemic cells with a sensitivit...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kerst G,Kreyenberg H,Roth C,Well C,Dietz K,Coustan-Smith E,Campana D,Koscielniak E,Niemeyer C,Schlegel PG,Müller I,Niethammer D,Bader P

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified a tissue kallikrein in polymorphonuclear (PMN) leucocytes of normal human blood and bone marrow by immunocytochemistry, radioimmunoassay and enzymology. Immunoreactive tissue kallikrein was visualized in the mature neutrophil leucocytes and in immature forms such as metamyelocytes and myelocytes. No...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Figueroa CD,MacIver AG,Bhoola KD

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent advent of an improved commercial serum enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the detection of circulating galactomannan (GM), a major constituent of Aspergillus cell walls, has contributed to the diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis (IA) in many haematology and transplant centres. However, the optima...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Maertens J,Theunissen K,Verbeken E,Lagrou K,Verhaegen J,Boogaerts M,Eldere JV

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 70-year-old man from an endemic area of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) developed rapid generalized lymphadenopathy and abdominal tumours. The white blood cell count was 198.3 x 10(9)/l with 93% lymphocytes, 66.3% of which expressed large granular lymphocytes (LGLs). Bone marrow and lymph nodes were ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sakamoto Y,Kawachi Y,Uchida T,Abe T,Mori M,Setsu K,Indo N

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disorders (PTLDs) are a well-recognized and potentially life-threatening complication of solid organ transplantation. While the vast majority of PTLDs are B-cell lymphoproliferations, T-cell PTLDs are rarely seen. Among 898 patients receiving cardiac transplants between 1990 an...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Draoua HY,Tsao L,Mancini DM,Addonizio LJ,Bhagat G,Alobeid B

更新日期：2004-11-01 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：:Clofarabine was the latest new drug to be approved, in 2004, for relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). To investigate its value in the frontline treatment of ALL we applied clofarabine 5 × 40 mg/m(2) in combination with pegylated asparaginase (PEG-ASP) 1 × 2500 iu/m(2) in high risk ALL patients a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Escherich G,Zur Stadt U,Zimmermann M,Horstmann MA,CoALL study group.

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognostic role of CD20 expression and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) positivity in post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD) after solid organ transplantation (SOT) in paediatric patients is poorly understood. We retrospectively examined the relationship of CD20 and EBV with the time interval from SOT to PTLD ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Orjuela MA,Alobeid B,Liu X,Siebert AL,Kott ER,Addonizio LJ,Morris E,Garvin JH,Lobritto SJ,Cairo MS

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have established that protein kinase C-zeta (PKC-zeta) is critical for neuronal cell differentiation. However, the role of PKC-zeta in haematopoietic cell differentiation is less clear. In this study, we have investigated the influence of PKC-zeta overexpression on the phenotype of the human monocytic...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mansat-De Mas V,de Thonel A,Gaulin V,Demur C,Laurent G,Quillet-Mary A

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An efficient method for the culture of human megakaryocyte precursors in serum-free medium has been developed facilitating study of the effect of regulators of megakaryocyte growth and maturation without interference by serum-derived factors. We have investigated how megakaryocytes and their precursors respond to the ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Plantier JL,Berthier R,Rival Y,Schweitzer A,Rabiet MJ

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00