abstract：:Five patients with lymphoid blastic transformation of chronic myeloid leukemia have been treated with IL2 associated with Vincristine (VCR) plus Prednisone (PDN). Our study indicates that IL2 may be employed in the management of this disease without excessive toxicity at the higher doses in hospitalized patients and a...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Meloni G,Foà R,Tosti S,Vignetti M,Gavosto F,Mandelli F

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of stiff-man syndrome (SMS), a rare and dramatic CNS disease characterized by continuous muscle activity and painful spasms resembling a chronic form of tetanus, occurring in a patient with Hodgkin's disease (HD) is reported. The patient developed the clinical features of SMS at the same time as the HD relapse....

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Ferrari P,Federico M,Grimaldi LM,Silingardi V

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating stem cells (CSC) are well documented in animals and humans. Though their function in normal conditions remains obscure, autologous CSC seem capable of restoring hemopoiesis after myeloablative treatment. With cell separators CSC may be harvested in adequate number, and collection may be further improved gi...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Majolino I,Scimé R,Indovina A

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past 20 years we have studied 1781 patients with beta-thalassemia syndromes of which 1481 Yugoslav, 166 Bulgarian, 102 Turkish and 32 Albanian. In this paper we summarize the data on the heterogeneity and molecular basis of beta-thal, delta beta-thal and Lepore hemoglobinopathy in these four nationalities liv...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Efremov GD

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative analyses of the leukocyte differential counting were performed using a Coulter VCS Hematology Flow Cytometer and direct microscopic observation on 547 unselected individuals analyzed at the outpatient clinic of the Institute of Hematology "L. e A. Seràgnoli" of Bologna. The Coulter VCS is able to provide l...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Zaccaria A,Celso B,Raspadori D,Motta MR,Testoni N,Rizzi S

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of acute adult T-cell leukemia-lymphoma (ATLL) was observed in northeast Italy, presenting with fever, lymphadenomegaly, splenomegaly, hypercalcemia and renal failure. Leukaemic cells were morphologically typical, expressed a T-cell CD4+ phenotype, did not display any helper functions, and grew in vitro under s...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Fanin R,Minutillo S,D'Agaro P,Raspadori D,Tassinari A,Tazzari P,Testoni N,Damiani D,Gallizia C,Michieli M

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the eighties there has been an enormous increase in our knowledge about erythropoietin, previously defined as "an elusive hormone". In this review we summarize the structural and molecular features, the mechanisms of production and of metabolism, the more important methods of assay, the mechanism of action and the ...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Liberato NL,Costa A,Barosi G

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-five adult patients with resistant or early relapsing Hodgkin's disease have been treated with CAV combination chemotherapy (CCNU, melphalan and etoposide). All patients had previously received both MOPP and ABVD regimens (23 patients as primary therapy and two as first salvage). High-energy radiotherapy had be...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Brusamolino E,Castelli G,Pagnucco G,Orlandi E,Malagó D,Lazzarino M,Bernasconi C

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics of 14 HIV-seropositive patients with NHL consecutively observed between 1984 and 1988 at our Institution are described. Patients belonged to a known population of 1242 HIV-seropositive individuals in whom the incidence of NHL was 1.13%, significantly higher than in age-matched controls (P less than...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Rossi G,Cadeo G,Stellini R,Zorzi F,Favret M,Sueri L,Carosi G,Mariano M,Marinone G

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of treatment with 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 administered at the dose of 1.50-3.00 ug/day for at least 12 months was evaluated in three patients with idiopathic myelofibrosis and in five patients with idiopathic thrombocythemia. This treatment did not cause any significant change in the hematological values o...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Foa P,Maiolo AT,Cortellaro M,Ortolani S,Pogliani E,Deliliers GL,Iurlo A,Zocchi L,Gualdoni A,Polli E

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) and/or T-cell receptor (TcR) gene rearrangements has been reported in some cases of acute non lymphoid leukemia (ANLL), and variously interpreted as reflecting "aberrant gene expression" or "lineage promiscuity" of the leukemic cell. In an attempt to verify the incide...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Leone R,Lo Coco F,De Rossi G,Diverio D,Frontani M,Spadea A,Testi AM,Cordone I,Mandelli F

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred thirty-three febrile episodes in 115 neutropenic patients with hematologic malignancies were empirically treated with ceftriaxone and amikacin in a single daily dose. An indwelling central venous catheter (CVC) was present in 44 cases. Septicemia was documented in 18 (41%) patients with CVC (13 gram-positi...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Martino P,Girmenia C,Raccah R,Micozzi A,Cimino G,Mandelli F

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By combining the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of the gamma globin gene promoters with synthetic oligonucleotide analysis we have diagnosed the -196 C----T and the -117 G----A substitutions in heterozygous carriers of non deletional A gamma HPFH from two unrelated Italian families. The identification of the beta-tha...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Gottardi E,Alfarano A,Serra A,Sciarratta G,Bertero MT,Saglio G,Camaschella C

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In S. Camillo Hospital, Rome, the Apheresis Center (CNTS-CRI) and the Haematological Division, Authors treated 17 patients affected by haematologic malignances and solid tumours with leukoapheresis procedures for PBSC collection. Nine patients were treated with continuous-flow cell separator Dideco Vivacell, performin...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Del Monte C,Basso P,Consoli P,Cossutta M,Morara R,Pescarollo A,Lanti T

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten consecutive patients (pts), suffering from hematological malignancies (5 NHL, 3 ANLL and 2 HD), received high doses of radio-chemotherapy and autologous peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) transplantation. Seven of them were in 1st CR, two in 3rd CR and one in refractory status. The recruitment of PBSC was performed...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Fioritoni G,Iacone A,D'Antonio D,Dragani A,Quaglietta AM,Accorsi P,Angelini A,Spadano A,Natale D,Berardi A

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of alpha interferon (IFN) in chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, a disease for which therapeutic options are still unsatisfactory. Fourteen sequential unselected patients received recombinant alpha-2b IFN (Intron-A, Schering-Essex) 3 megaU/day, progressively elevated to 10...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Catalano L,Majolino I,Musto P,Fragrasso A,Molica S,Cirincione S,Selleri C,Luciano L,De Renzo A,Vecchione R

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pilot study, testing two different chemotherapeutic schedules in CML patients, was carried out in order to verify the possibility of Ph1 clone disappearance. Both therapeutic regimens, though able to induce severe marrow aplasia, determined only a reduction of Ph1 positive metaphases in two patients, while in one ca...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Centurioni R,Leoni P,Russo D,Brianzoni MF,Montillo M,Baccarani M,Tura S

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) levels have been tested in patients with chronic relative polycythemia (RP), polycythemia vera, and in healthy subjects in order to find a possible underlying pathophysiological mechanism for relative polycythemia. No difference in statistical significance has been found between the me...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Cohen AM,Gelvan A,Winaver J,Kahna L,Floru S,Djaldetti M

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral cytopenia has been reported in a number of patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), but the mechanism of bone marrow (BM) failure is unclear. We have examined the BM morphology and cytokinetics of 16 untreated HIV-positive patients whose clinical condition ranged from asymptomatic (stage...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Danova M,Riccardi A,Brugnatelli S,Maserati R,Comolli G,Mazzini G,Castello A,Ascari E,Rondanelli EG

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) simulating acute cholestatic hepatitis is a very unusual clinical picture. Massive liver infiltration with conspicuous acute cholestatic symptoms, in fact, suggests more aggressive systemic diseases such as non Hodgkin's lymphomas or acute leukemias. Nevertheless, we observed two cases of mixed...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Marinone G,Lazzari R,Pellizzari F,Marinone MG

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-four patients over 60 years of age with new cases of ANLL diagnosed between January, 1980 and December, 1986 were retrospectively evaluated. Twenty-nine (median age 63, range 60-70) received aggressive induction polychemotherapy: 15 achieved CR (52%), 10 were resistant (34.5%) and 4 died during induction (13.5...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Latagliata R,Sgadari C,Pisani F,Falconi M,Spadea A,Vegna ML,Petti MC

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main purpose of this work is to give methodologic details and further verification regarding the predictive system recently elaborated for Hodgkin's disease (HD) patients, by which, under standard accuracy and conventional treatment, patient survival can be directly estimated (within a given confidence interval) w...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Gobbi PG,Gobbi PG,Mazza P,Zinzani PL

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review deals with the chronic lymphoproliferative disease of large granular lymphocytes endowed with T and natural killer cell characteristics. The disease is sufficiently characterized to allow its distinction from other lymphoproliferative disorders of the T cell type. The heterogeneous clinical course and labo...

journal_title：Haematologica

authors： Bassan R,Rambaldi A,Barbui T

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00