abstract：:Interferon-alpha has been used as standard therapy for patients with Philadelphia-positive chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) for more than 20 years. Recently randomized trials have shown a superiority of the tyrosine kinase inhibitor imatinib in respect to its efficacy to induce complete hematological and cytogenetic rem...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Verbeek W,König H,Boehm J,Kohl D,Lange C,Heuer T,Scheibenbogen C,Reis HE,Hochhaus A,Graeven U

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although multiple myeloma (MM) remains an incurable disease, its treatment has improved over the past decade. This improvement has been at least in part due to the introduction of novel antimyeloma agents with new mechanisms of action, including those that target both myeloma cells and the tumor microenvironment, with...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Cibeira MT,Mercadal S,Arenillas L,Muntañola A,Salamero O,Bladé J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient with lung cancer who developed CD56-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia. He was referred to our hospital for thrombocytopenia. Atypical cells were found in the blood and the bone marrow. These cells were immunophenotypically positive for CD3epsilon, CD56, and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Matano S,Terahata S,Nakamura S,Kobayashi K,Sugimoto T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Umbilical cord blood (UCB) contains haematopoietic stem cells and can be used as an alternative to bone marrow transplantation in certain cases. Engraftment was dependent upon the haematopoietic progenitor cell content of the cord blood units. This study was designed to investigate the influen...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Solves P,Perales A,Moraga R,Saucedo E,Soler MA,Monleon J

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffuse large B cell lymphoma, T-cell-rich/histiocyte-rich variant (DLBL-TH), is characterized by the presence of neoplastic B cells set in a background containing numerous non-neoplastic T lymphocytes and histiocytes. We report here the case of a patient with DLBL-TH who developed overt pure red cell aplasia (PRCA) f...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Oyaizu N,Kozai Y,Kodo H,Sunaga S,Iwabuchi K,Higashihara M,Mori S

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thalidomide acts on the microenvironment of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) by influencing cytokine networks, and growing evidence supports thalidomide's usefulness in the management of haematological malignancies, such as MDS. The European Collaboration Group on Myelofibrosis with Myeloid Metaplasia reviewed patients...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Prentice HG,Sacchi S,Russell N

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor VIII (FVIII) inhibitor antibodies are produced against functional epitopes of FVIII in about 30% of severe hemophilia A patients leading to inhibition of its procoagulant activity. The Bethesda assay, the most commonly used method to measure FVIII inhibitors, based on inhibition of coagulant activity of FVIII, ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Towfighi F,Gharagozlou S,Sharifian RA,Kazemnejad A,Esmailzadeh K,Managhchi MR,Shokri F

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contamination of autologous graft by tumor, in addition to incomplete tumor eradication, can partly explain why relapse remains the commonest cause of treatment failure after autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) in patients with malignant hematologic disorders. Monitoring of minimal residual disease (MRD) is no...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Melillo L,Cascavilla N,Lerma E,Corsetti MT,Carella AM

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) is an interferon (IFN)-induced molecule with apoptotic activity. We examined gene mutations in the death domains of TRAIL receptor 1 (TRAIL-R1) and TRAIL receptor 2 (TRAIL-R2), and in the TRAIL gene promoter in 46 chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) patien...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Liu LG,Tanaka H,Ito K,Ito T,Sultana TA,Kyo T,Kimura A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of donor chimerism has become a routine method for the documentation of engraftment after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). In recent years several groups have also focused on the application of this technique for the detection of relapsing disease after allogeneic HSCT. This review a...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Thiede C,Bornhäuser M,Ehninger G

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple myeloma (MM) is a B cell malignancy characterized by accumulation of plasma cells (PCs) in the bone marrow. Traditional methods for the detection of minimal residual disease (MRD) measure the presence of monoclonal immunoglobulin protein secreted by the malignant PCs. However, changes in the level of MRD in M...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Rasmussen T,Knudsen LM,Huynh TK,Johnsen HE

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 77-year-old woman presented to the outpatient hematology clinic in August 2001 with leukocytosis, recurrent bacterial infections, sweating and weight loss. Bone marrow biopsy showed 80% infiltration with lymphoid cells having a prolymphocytic morphology. Flow-cytometric immunophenotype analysis showed that over 80% ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Zver S,Kokalj Vokac N,Zagradisnik B,Erjavec A,Zagorac A,Zupan IP,Cernelc P

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocytic sarcoma of the small intestine preceding or as the presenting feature of acute myelogenous leukemia with chromosome 16 abnormalities has been observed in at least 4 patients. We report the case of a patient initially diagnosed with eosinophilic gastroenteritis, responding to corticosteroid treatment for 2...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Julia A,Nomdedeu JF

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most common single genetic disorder and a major public health issue in Greece and other Mediterranean countries is beta-thalassemia. Current therapeutic approaches for homozygous beta-thalassemia entail blood transfusions and iron chelation therapy with deferoxamine or deferiprone for preventing tissue hemosideros...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Chaidos A,Makis A,Hatzimichael E,Tsiara S,Gouva M,Tzouvara E,Bourantas KL

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the 193 patients (82 female, 111 male) treated primarily for Hodgkin's disease at our clinic between 1990 and 2001 and followed up until 2003, 42 (22%) had mediastinal bulky tumours (MBTs) by the Cotswolds criteria. The rate of MBT diagnosis was significantly greater in the early stage of the disease, these pati...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Keresztes K,Lengyel Z,Devenyi K,Vadasz G,Miltenyi Z,Illes A

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene therapy targeting hematopoietic cells has arrived at a new stage of potency. While the potential for curing inherited disorders of the immune system has been demonstrated in clinical trials, we were also confronted with the first serious adverse events related to random insertion of foreign DNA into cellular chro...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Baum C,von Kalle C

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of the study was to investigate changes in expression of selected growth factors tentatively involved in regeneration of haematopoietic tissues (bone marrow and spleen) following cyclophosphamide (CY) damage in the mouse. The bone marrow (BM) and spleen were examined separately, since the regenerating pattern...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Psenák O,Sefc L,Sýkora V,Chang KT,Necas E

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increased bone marrow (BM) apoptosis is one of the mechanisms responsible for the ineffective hematopoiesis of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). It is controversial whether the excessive apoptosis in myelodysplasia predominantly involves the subset of progenitor cells or of maturing cells. We investigated the degree...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Pecci A,Travaglino E,Klersy C,Invernizzi R

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While sickle cell disease (SCD) is generally mild in most Kuwaitis, because of their elevated fetal Hb levels, avascular necrosis of the femoral head (AVNFH) appears to be a common complication. It was recently documented in 26.7% of Kuwaiti children with SCD. There have, however, been no previous studies of adult pat...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Marouf R,Gupta R,Haider MZ,Al-Wazzan H,Adekile AD

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) is the treatment of choice for selected patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). However, it is associated with a high risk of treatment-related mortality (TRM) and morbidity. To assist in decision making about transplantation, a simple scoring system to assess the risk ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Qazilbash MH,Devetten MP,Abraham J,Lynch JP,Beall CL,Weisenborn R,Bunner P,Ericson SG

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) are widely used in the setting of dose-intensive chemotherapies in patients with multiple myeloma (MM). Although the granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), following chemotherapy or not, is considered the standard growth factor for mobilizing PBSC, the optimal chemotherapeuti...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Petrucci MT,Avvisati G,La Verde G,De Fabritiis P,Ribersani M,Palumbo G,De Felice L,Rusignuolo A,Simone F,Meloni G,Mandelli F

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the results of high-dose therapy (HDT) and autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (ASCT) in patients with relapsed or primary refractory Hodgkin's disease (HD), using a previously reported prognostic model based on the presence of three poor prognostic factors at the start of salvage therapy/p...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Qazilbash MH,Devetten MP,Abraham J,Lynch JP,Beall CL,Auber M,Weisenborn R,Bunner P,Ericson SG

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deficiency in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) is the most common enzymopathy, and more than 125 different mutations causing G6PD deficiency have been identified. Chronic haemolytic anaemia (CHA) associated with G6PD deficiency is rare, but there is a cluster of mutations causing CHA between amino acids 361-42...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Hundsdoerfer P,Vetter B,Kulozik AE

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factors GATA-1 and GATA-2 play key roles in gene regulation during erythropoiesis. Gene ablation studies in mouse revealed that GATA-2 is crucial for the maintenance and proliferation of immature hematopoietic progenitors, whereas GATA-1 is essential for the survival of erythroid progenitors as well ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Ohneda K,Yamamoto M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), refractory anaemia with excess blasts in transformation, in whom complete remission (CR) was achieved with the administration of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF). The 76-year-old patient was admitted to our hospital with a fever and a productive cou...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Kondo H,Kasahara Y,Mori A

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 56-year-old male presented with inguinal lymphadenopathy and leucocytosis (WBC 98 x 10(9)/l). Bone marrow morphology showed myeloid hyperplasia, with eosinophilia. Cytogenetic analysis showed no evidence of the Philadelphia chromosome, and fluorescence in situ hybridisation studies for the BCR/ABL fusion were negati...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： JabbarAl-Obaidi M,Rymes N,White P,Pomfret M,Smith H,Starczynski J,Johnson R

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is unusual to find microorganisms in peripheral blood smears, and their presence is frequently associated with overwhelming sepsis and consequently a poor prognosis. In this report, we demonstrate 4 cases with bacteria in blood smears. Two of them had a fatal outcome, but the other 2 were caused by a contamination ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： van der Meer W,Verwiel JM,Gidding CE,de Metz M,de Keijzer MH

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesenteric panniculitis is a rare idiopathic inflammatory disorder that can lead to sclerosis. We describe a patient with mesenteric panniculitis presenting with abdominal symptoms and autoimmune haemolytic anaemia. The symptoms remitted after splenectomy and gradual steroid taper. This may suggest an autoimmune compo...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Vidarsson B,Matthíasson P,Agnarsson BA,Onundarson PT

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for embryonic zeta-globin chains as a routine screening test for (--(SEA)) alpha-thalassemia deletion (SEA deletion). A total of 174 consecutive patient samples with a request for Hb analysis were recruited. The ELISA method was evaluated against a polymerase c...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Ma SK,Ma V,Chan AY,Chan LC,Chui DH

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Avascular necrosis (AVN) of the hip is a common cause of morbidity in sickle cell disease (SCD). Its prevalence increases with age and predisposing factors include coexistent alpha-thalassemia trait, frequent vaso-occlusive crisis and a high hematocrit (Hct). SCD is relatively mild among Kuwaiti patients because of th...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Adekile AD,Gupta R,Yacoub F,Sinan T,Al-Bloushi M,Haider MZ

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two human stromal cell lines were established previously from bone marrow-derived primary long-term cultures by immortalization using the SV40 large T antigen and cellular cloning. After irradiation, the fibroblast-like cell lines L87/4 and L88/5 support hematopoietic differentiation of allogeneic cord blood cells in ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Thalmeier K,Meissner P,Moosmann S,Sagebiel S,Wiest I,Huss R

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monocytoid B cell lymphoma (MBCL) is an immunologically and morphologically well-defined low-grade lymphoma with a predilection for lymph nodes of the parotid region. We describe an association of MBCL with anti-myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG) polyneuropathy in a 53-year-old male. The diagnosis of stage IV MBCL w...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Donfrid M,Apostolski S,Suvajdzić N,Janković G,Cemerikić-Martinović V,Atkinson HD,Colovic M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we investigated the inhibitory natural killer cell receptor (NKR) expression of CD94/NKG2A on PBMC after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT). The proportion of CD94 expression on PBMC was higher in patients without chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) and also in cGVHD patients with...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Tanaka J,Tutumi Y,Zhang L,Mori A,Kahata K,Toyoshima N,Ohta S,Kobayashi S,Hashino S,Asaka M,Imamura M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer patients not undergoing treatment and without a history of venous thrombosis do not, as a general rule, require prophylaxis. However, venous thromboembolism is of sufficient magnitude in patients undergoing treatment for cancer for thromboprophylaxis to be routinely employed. The mainstay of primary prevention ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Thodiyil PA,Walsh DC,Kakkar AK

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At diagnosis, clonal gene rearrangement probes [retinoic acid receptor (RAR)-alpha, major breakpoint cluster region (M-bcr), immunoglobulin (Ig)-JH, T cell receptor (TcR)-beta, myeloid lymphoid leukemia (MLL) or cytokine genes (GM-CSF, G-CSF, IL-3)] were detected in bone marrow samples from 71 of 153 patients with acu...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Schmetzer HM,Braun S,Wiesner D,Duell T,Gerhartz HH,Mittermueller J

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proposed that iron overload may adversely affect liver disease outcome. The recent identification of 2 mutations in the HFE gene related to hereditary haemochromatosis (Cys282Tyr and His63Asp) provided an opportunity to test whether they are associated with hepatic iron accumulation and the activity and se...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Martinelli AL,Franco RF,Villanova MG,Figueiredo JF,Secaf M,Tavella MH,Ramalho LN,Zucoloto S,Zago MA

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study, we evaluated efficacy of repeated antilymphocyte globulin (ALG) treatment for patients with severe aplastic anemia not responding to an initial ALG treatment or relapsing after initial response to ALG. We now searched in the same cohort of patients for differences between patients who responded to...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Viollier R,Tichelli A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-thalassemia is very common in the Kuwaiti population, but its influence on anemia of pregnancy has not been previously investigated. We have screened a group of 59 anemic (Hb < 11 g/dl) pregnant women for the alpha-thal-2 (-alpha-3.7 kb) deletion which is the commonest alpha-thal allele in this community, using ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Diejomaoh FM,Haider MZ,Dalal H,Abdulaziz A,D'Souza TM,Adekile AD

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Littoral cell angioma (LCA) is a rare vascular tumor of the spleen with an unknown etiology and unclear natural history. An association with synchronous malignancy has been described. We report the case of a 54-year-old woman who had progressive splenomegaly over 3 years following resection of a colon adenocarcinoma. ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Steensma DP,Morice WG

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocytic sarcoma (GS) is a rare extramedullary tumor composed of immature myeloid cells. It is usually associated with leukemia or other myeloproliferative disorders, but can also occur without overt hematologic disease, i.e. in patients with a normal bone marrow and no history of acute myelogenous leukemia. This ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Breccia M,Petti MC,Fraternali-Orcioni G,Monarca B,Latagliata R,D'Elia GM,Mandelli F,Pileri SA

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00