Splenic regrowth in sickle cell anaemia following hypertransfusion.

abstract：:Risk factors for acute graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) remain controversial. We performed uni- and multivariate statistical analyses on a series of 37 patients receiving a non-depleted allogeneic bone marrow transplant from an HLA-identical sibling donor for a haematological malignancy, in order to identify risk fact...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bagot M,Mary JY,Heslan M,Kuentz M,Cordonnier C,Vernant JP,Dubertret L,Levy JP

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical significance of Aspergillus fungaemia in the setting of a deep-seated aspergillosis has not been clearly established. Among 107 microbiologically documented Aspergillus infections in patients with haematological diseases observed over a 17-year period, blood cultures grew Aspergillus species from 10 cases...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Girmenia C,Nucci M,Martino P

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) have a four-fold excess risk of mortality from cardiovascular disease. This cardiovascular risk has not been fully characterized. ALL survivors [n = 784, median age 31·7 years (18·9-59·1)] in the St. Jude Lifetime Cohort Study underwent evaluation for ca...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Nottage KA,Ness KK,Li C,Srivastava D,Robison LL,Hudson MM

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 30-year-old woman was diagnosed as having an acute promyelocytic leukaemia in September 1981. Chemotherapeutic courses of daunomycin, ara-C, thioguanine and prednisolone were administered, resulting in a complete remission. A relapse occurred in January 1982, and chemotherapy did not lead to a second complete remiss...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Nilsson B

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We treated 26 patients with hairy cell leukaemia (HCL) with 2-chlorodeoxyadenosine, including nine with abdominal lymphadenopathy and of whom two had HCL-variant; 18 were previously treated. The overall response in 23 evaluable HCL patients was 100% with 87% complete remission (CR). The CR rate was 57% in patients wit...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mercieca J,Matutes E,Emmett E,Coles H,Catovsky D

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary haemochromatosis (HH) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by excessive intestinal iron absorption resulting in increased pathological body iron stores. It is typically associated with homozygosity for the c.845G>A (p.C282Y) mutation in the HFE gene. However, other HFE alterations have been repo...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Silva B,Martins R,Proença D,Fleming R,Faustino P

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We prospectively studied presentation biological differences and the response to therapy in patients with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) associated with, or unrelated to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. TTP patients underwent standard evaluations and were treated with prednisone 1 mg/kg in addi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Novitzky N,Thomson J,Abrahams L,du Toit C,McDonald A

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risk assessment for patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) remains challenging as it depends on an individual physician's experience and ability to integrate a variety of test results. We aimed to provide a new risk score that combines clinical, laboratory, and imaging data. In a prospective cohort of 600 adult patie...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sachdev V,Tian X,Gu Y,Nichols J,Sidenko S,Li W,Beri A,Layne WA,Allen D,Wu CO,Thein SL

更新日期：2021-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma from patients with both acute and chronic liver disease has been examined for evidence of acquired dysfibrinogenaemia, using electrophoretic methods and coagulation tests. An examination of isolated fibrins upon SDS polyacryamide gel electrophoresis failed to demonstrate any molecular or structural defect assoc...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lane DA,Scully MF,Thomas DP,Kakkar VV,Woolf IL,Williams R

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple myeloma (MM) is a plasma cell malignancy that claims thousands of lives each year and has considerable morbidity. The disease remains incurable despite recent advances in the understanding of the disease biology and the introduction of more effective drugs is needed. This study evaluated the anti-MM activity ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kumar S,Raje N,Hideshima T,Ishitsuka K,Podar K,Le Gouille S,Chauhan D,Richardson P,Munshi NC,Anderson K

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leucine-rich repeats are conserved structural motifs present in the four components of the human platelet glycoprotein Ib/IX/V complex receptor for the adhesive protein von Willebrand factor. The absence or abnormality of this complex is responsible for Bernard-Soulier disease, an autosomal recessive bleeding disorder...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： de la Salle C,Baas MJ,Lanza F,Schwartz A,Hanau D,Chevalier J,Gachet C,Briquel ME,Cazenave JP

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study was undertaken to determine the effectiveness of an empirical antibiotic therapy regimen in 34 neutropenic patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation or remission-induction chemotherapy for leukaemia. Throughout the study period a total of 90 pyrexial episodes were monitored in which organisms...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Barnes RA,Rogers TR

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the relationship between duodenal mucosal mRNA levels of the transcription factor, NF-E2, H-ferritin (a putative NF-E2 regulated gene) and iron absorption in mice. CD1-strain mice with normal and altered iron metabolism (hypoxic, iron-deficient, iron-loaded) and animals with genetic defects of ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Raja KB,Gerard B,McKie AT,Simpson RJ,Peters TJ,Grandchamp B,Beaumont C

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical characteristics and prognostic relevance of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) with myelodysplastic features remains to be clarified in children. We prospectively examined 443 newly diagnosed patients in a multicentre clinical trial for paediatric de novo AML, and found 'AML with myelodysplasia-related changes...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kinoshita A,Miyachi H,Matsushita H,Yabe M,Taki T,Watanabe T,Saito AM,Tomizawa D,Taga T,Takahashi H,Matsuo H,Kodama K,Ohki K,Hayashi Y,Tawa A,Horibe K,Adachi S

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoelectric focusing (IEF) in the pH range 2.5-5.0 has been used to compare the immunoreactive (ir) erythropoietin (Epo) in paired samples of serum and urine from three patients, two with idiopathic aplastic anaemia and one with paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria and also from three anaemic rats. Serum samples only ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tam RC,Coleman SL,Tiplady RJ,Storring PL,Cotes PM

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydroxyurea increases fetal haemoglobin in many patients with sickle cell anaemia, but its effectiveness in thalassaemia appears to be less consistent. We describe the response to hydroxyurea in an adult male with homozygous beta thalassaemia, symptomatic paraspinal extramedullary haemopoiesis, bone pain, and progress...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Saxon BR,Rees D,Olivieri NF

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Routine testing on plasma from a patient due to undergo a coronary artery bypass graft operation revealed a prolonged thrombin clotting time associated with a normal plasma fibrinogen level when this was determined by a method not dependent upon the rate of fibrin formation. Fibrinogen purified from the patient's plas...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lane DA,Cuddigan B,VanRoss M,Kakkar VV

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of acquired sideroblastic anaemia precipitated by progesterone. On two separate occasions, over 15 years apart, the patient developed sideroblastic anaemia with iron overload shortly after the administration of progesterone. No other cause for sideroblastic anaemia was found, and treatment with folic ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Brodsky RA,Hasegawa S,Fibach E,Dunbar CE,Young NS,Rodgers GP

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) were produced against the blood group KEL1 glycoprotein (93 kD component) immunopurified from human erythrocytes. One monoclonal antibody, 5A11 (IgGa, kappa), detects by immunoblotting a 93 and 184 kD component from KEL: 1,-2 or KEL: -1,2 red cell membrane preparations, separated b...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Jaber A,Loirat MJ,Willem C,Bloy C,Cartron JP,Blanchard D

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-12 (IL-12), a heterodimeric cytokine with potent biological activity, was evaluated for effects on proliferation of human immature progenitor cells in vitro. In vitro proliferation of 5-FU-resistant CD34+ (G0) peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) in response to sequential cytokine stimulation was examined in...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Grafte-Faure S,Leveque C,Vasse M,Soria C,Vannier JP

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of the variability in the sensitivity to warfarin in anticoagulated patients is associated with the c.-1639G > A polymorphism of the vitamin K-epoxide reductase (VKORC1) gene. However, its association with the acenocoumarol dose in patients under anticoagulant therapy has not been studied. The c.-1639G > A genoty...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Montes R,Ruiz de Gaona E,Martínez-González MA,Alberca I,Hermida J

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relapse remains the leading cause of treatment failure in children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) undergoing allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). We retrospectively investigated the prognostic role of minimal residual disease (MRD) before and after HSCT in 119 children transplanted in ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lovisa F,Zecca M,Rossi B,Campeggio M,Magrin E,Giarin E,Buldini B,Songia S,Cazzaniga G,Mina T,Acquafredda G,Quarello P,Locatelli F,Fagioli F,Basso G

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Folate analogues were added to human bone marrow cells to determine their effect on deoxyuridine utilization in the deoxyuridine suppression test. Formyltetrahydrofolates fully corrected the impairment of dU utilization in pernicious anaemia marrows but tetrahydrofolate was relatively ineffective. All these analogues ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Deacon R,Chanarin I,Perry J,Lumb M

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-dose chemotherapy (HDT) with autologous stem cell transplantation is the standard of care for relapsed/refractory (RR) Hodgkin lymphoma (HL). Given that HDT may cure a sizeable proportion of patients refractory to first salvage, development of newer conditioning regimens remains a priority. We present the results...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Musso M,Messina G,Di Renzo N,Di Carlo P,Vitolo U,Scalone R,Marcacci G,Scalzulli PR,Moscato T,Matera R,Crescimanno A,Santarone S,Orciuolo E,Merenda A,Pavone V,Pastore D,Donnarumma D,Carella AM,Ciochetto C,Cascavilla

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-6 (IL6) plays a central role in multiple myeloma pathogenesis and confers resistance to corticosteroid-induced apoptosis. We therefore evaluated the efficacy and safety of siltuximab, an anti-IL6 monoclonal antibody, alone and in combination with dexamethasone, for patients with relapsed or refractory mult...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Voorhees PM,Manges RF,Sonneveld P,Jagannath S,Somlo G,Krishnan A,Lentzsch S,Frank RC,Zweegman S,Wijermans PW,Orlowski RZ,Kranenburg B,Hall B,Casneuf T,Qin X,van de Velde H,Xie H,Thomas SK

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In agreement with a recently published manuscript, this present study demonstrated that CD38+ sub-populations had increased proliferative activity as evidenced by higher Ki-67 expression (P < 0.0001). This raised the possibility that the CD38+ fraction is exposed to an increased risk of clonal evolution. However, seri...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lin TT,Hewamana S,Ward R,Taylor H,Payne T,Pratt G,Baird D,Fegan C,Pepper C

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient with CML in relapse after a sex-mismatch bone marrow transplant who was treated with donor lymphocyte infusions and developed severe marrow aplasia 3 months later. As cytogenetic analysis at this point was not possible because of the very low number of marrow cells available, we used in situ hybrid...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Garicochea B,van Rhee F,Spencer A,Chase A,Lin F,Cross NC,Goldman JM

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mechanism has been proposed in which nitric oxide (NO) may bind to cysteine beta93 and be transported by haemoglobin from the lungs to the tissues and modify vascular tone. In addition, it has been reported that treatment of sickle cell anaemia blood with 80 p.p.m. NO gas in air shifts the oxygen affinity, as measur...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hrinczenko BW,Alayash AI,Wink DA,Gladwin MT,Rodgers GP,Schechter AN

更新日期：2000-08-01 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：:137 patients with severe aplastic anaemia (SAA) were treated in Basel from 1976 to 1986. 34 underwent bone marrow transplantation (BMT) and 103 received antilymphocyte globulin (ALG) therapy. We have analysed the incidence of late haematological complications in both groups of patients. 20 patients treated with ALG de...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tichelli A,Gratwohl A,Würsch A,Nissen C,Speck B

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00