abstract：:A 59-year-old man presented with lymphocytosis with huge splenomegaly. The abnormal lymphocytes had a high nucleoplasm:cytoplasm ratio, a prominent nucleolus and hairy cytoplasmic projections. Immunophenotyping revealed B-cell leukemia with negative reactions to CD5 and CD25. Cytogenetic study showed 46,XY,der(5)t(5;6...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Dunn P,Shih LY,Ho YS,Tien HF

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the identification of an Hb S homozygosity in a 29-year-old multiple-transfused patient with severe kidney disease using a new reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) technique with mRNA as starting template. The procedure requires considerably less time than sequencing of genomic DNA and is...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Smetanina NS,Gu LH,Leonova JYe,Huisman TH

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case of hemolytic anemia with subacute bacterial endocarditis due to Streptococcus sanguis. The major hematological features of the patient were a normocytic anemia with reticulocytosis, an elevation of serum lactate dehydrogenase, and a marked reduction of serum haptoglobin. All these signs of hemolytic...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Inada T,Shirono K,Tsuda H

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RAS mutations are found in about 25% of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cases. The importance of these changes is unknown. If RAS mutations confer growth advantage to leukemia subclones in which they emerge, substantially more nonconservative than conservative mutations should be found. The incidence of conservative muta...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Aurer I,Labar B,Nemet D,Ajduković R,Bogdanić V,Gale RP

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monosomy 7 myelodysplasia is a rare hematological entity and is associated with morphological abnormalities in bone marrow and peripheral smear, and poor prognosis in children. We describe 2 children with infantile monosomy 7 myelodysplasia which evolved to leukemia. One of them died after 1 month, and the other is st...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Yeşilipek MA,Lüleci G,Velipaşaoğlu S,Berker S,Yeğin O

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hairy-cell leukaemia (HCL) cell line, HCL-O, was established from the peripheral blood of a 62-year-old Japanese patient with a unique variant of HCL strongly expressing CD21, the receptor for the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). The HCL-O cells expressed antigens similar and dissimilar to those expressed with the original...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Tokioka T,Shimamoto Y,Nagumo F,Tadano J,Yamaguchi M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used the gel retardation assay to investigate the binding of nuclear proteins to the duplicated CACCC boxes in the beta-globin gene promoter region. The effect of beta-thalassemia mutations affecting both of these consensus sequences (the -88 C-->T and -101 C-->T mutations) were studied by using appropriate mu...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Baysal E,Ribeiro ML,Huisman TH

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Chlorodeoxyadenosine (cladribine, Leustatin) is being used extensively in the treatment of hematologic malignancies, but relatively little is known regarding its toxicity to the normal marrow. Long-term serial hematologic observations have been made on 29 patients with multiple sclerosis undergoing experimental ther...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Beutler E,Koziol JA,McMillan R,Sipe JC,Romine JS,Carrera CJ

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two kindreds of Arab ancestry characterized by multiple cases of acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Consanguinity and intermarriages were prevalent in the two families. Age, mode of presentation, characteristics of the leukemic cells, response to treatment and prognosis were remarkably similar among the patient...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Kende G,Toren A,Mandel M,Neumann Y,Kenet G,Brok-Simoni F,Ramot B,Ben-Bassat I,Rechavi G

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyruvate kinase (PK) from four patients with moderate to severe congenital non-spherocytic haemolytic anaemia was characterized by methods recommended by the ICSH. The possibility that two of the patients are true homozygotes cannot be ruled out, while the other two apparently represent double heterozygotes. All but o...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Tegos C,Anagnostoulis G

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Essential thrombocythemia (ET), one of the chronic myeloproliferative disorders, is a clonal disorder of multipotent stem cells. Although most patients with ET have a prolonged benign course, a minority of patients may develop a blastic crisis similar to chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). A case of ET terminating in ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Shibata K,Shimamoto Y,Suga K,Sano M,Matsuzaki M,Yamaguchi M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most patients with large granular lymphocyte (LGL) leukemia, the disease appears to progress slowly if at all, and no therapy is generally required. We present a patient with CD3+ CD8+ CD16+ LGL leukemia, who showed a benign clinical course for more than 7 months without therapy, but subsequently developed aggressi...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Matsubara A,Matsumoto M,Takada K,Hato T,Hasegawa H,Tamai T,Yasukawa M,Fujita S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Immunotherapy using recombinant human interleukin-2 (rIL-2) produces objective responses in a proportion of advanced cancer patients. While early investigators employed intravenous (i.v.) treatment regimens, recent clinical trials applied therapy schedules via subcutaneous (s.c.) injection, mostly in combina...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Schomburg A,Kirchner H,Atzpodien J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a dose titration study we tested the efficacy and tolerance of recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) in 10 patients with myelodysplasia (MDS) and 2 patients with idiopathic myelofibrosis. Patients with a haemoglobin level < 100 g/l were treated as out-patients for 12 weeks with daily doses ranging from 30 U/kg b...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Mohr B,Herrmann R,Huhn D

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of lymphoma presenting with features shared by hairy cell leukemia (HCL) and its variant, intermediate lymphocytic lymphoma (ILL) and monocytoid B-cell lymphoma (MBCL) is described. Clinical presentation and the morphological findings observed in peripheral blood and in bone marrow biopsy suggested an HCL; howe...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Adami F,Chilosi M,Lestani M,Scarpa A,Zambello R,Pomponi F,Semenzato G,Menestrina F

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) in first complete remission (CR) were treated with alfa-2a-interferon (for short 'interferon') maintenance therapy, at a dose of 3 MU twice to thrice weekly subcutaneously. Adjustments were made to maintain neutrophil counts > 1 x 10(9)/l and platelet counts > 100 x 1...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： McSweeney EN,Worman CP,Tsakona CP,Jewel AP,Hoffbrand AV,Milligan DW,Burnett AK,Lewis ML,Goldstone AH

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentration of plasma vitamin B12 bound to transcobalamin II was measured by two methods: QUSO and Heparin Sepharose (HS). The new HS procedure provided a specific, direct measurement of vitamin B12 bound to both R binder and transcobalamin II in plasma. ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Benhayoun S,Adjalla C,Nicolas JP,Guéant JL,Lambert D

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of Philadelphia-positive (Ph) acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) in a 40-year-old male is presented. At diagnosis, 80% of bone marrow cells were Ph. Remission with normal blood counts was achieved but the marrow became hypercellular, indicating conversion to chronic granulocytic leukaemia (GCL). The Ph clone p...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： O'Brien DV,Craig JM,Secker-Walker LM,Boughton BJ

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agranulocytosis developed in a 20-year-old Greek patient with beta-thalassaemia major, 11 weeks after commencing chelation with the oral iron chelator 1,2-dimethyl-3-hydroxypyrid-4-one (L1) and 6 weeks after receiving the drug at a total daily dose of 105 mg/kg. The patient presented with generalised weakness, low-gra...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： al-Refaie FN,Veys PA,Wilkes S,Wonke B,Hoffbrand AV

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the case of a woman undergoing treatment with acenocoumarol for deep vein thrombosis, who maintained an international normalized ratio (INR) of between 2.5 and 4 for 2 months. Seven days after the introduction of amoxycillin (500 mg/8 h) for a probable respiratory infection, the patient developed spontaneou...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Soto J,Sacristan JA,Alsar MJ,Fernandez-Viadero C,Verduga R

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the iron status of 50 Sicilian patients with G6PD deficiency under steady-state conditions and compared our results with those for 50 control patients. We studied haemolysis and iron indices to evaluate the iron balance. These patients could be considered to be at risk of iron overload as a result of incr...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Ragusa R,Di Cataldo A,Gangarossa S,Lo Nigro L,Schilirò G

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amylase-producing tumors are mainly adenocarcinomas and, in rare instances, multiple myelomas. We describe here a first case of amylase-producing Bence Jones type myeloma with pancreatitis-like symptoms and the second in a Caucasian patient. The finding of salivary-type hyperamylasemia in a 72-year-old female with a p...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Lopez J,Ulibarrena C,Gonzalez-Porque P,Navas G,Roldan E,Cancelas JA,Perez-Oteyza J,Burgaleta C,García-Laraña J,Sastre JL

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In cutaneous T-cell lymphomas (CTCL; mycosis fungoides and Sézary syndrome), the standard therapies tend to be effective but not curative. Single drug therapy with either interferon-alpha or retinoids shows a response rate of about 45%. In this article, we report the results obtained in the treatment of CTCL with a co...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Dreno B,Celerier P,Litoux P

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:350 patients with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) aged 2/12-15 years (mean 6.3 +/- 2.7) were followed up during the period January 1st, 1975 to March 31, 1992. They constituted 40% of cases with hemorrhagic diathesis attending the Hematology/Oncology Clinic, Children's Hospital, Ain Shams University (relativ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Khalifa AS,Tolba KA,el-Alfy MS,Gadallah M,Ibrahim FH

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the major determinants of erythrocyte survival is membrane deformability, and an important intrinsic parameter of membrane deformability is the shear elastic modulus (mu) with higher mu values corresponding to increased membrane rigidity. Using a micropipette technique, we determined the shear elastic modulus o...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Athanassiou G,Symeonidis A,Kourakli A,Missirlis YF,Zoumbos NC

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a comparison of 47 patients with Philadelphia-chromosome (Ph)-positive chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in the Nagasaki University School of Medicine and 64 patients with the same disease in the Roswell Park Memorial Institute, the correlation between the modal number of chromosomes and the therapeutic response and/o...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Sadamori N,Yao E,Mine M,Tokunaga S,Matsunaga M,Nakamura H,Sasagawa I,Itoyama T,Hayashibara T,Sandberg AA

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 38-year-old Japanese man had suffered from trichophyton infection for several years. The white blood cell count was 20,300/mm3, including 54% abnormal lymphocytes with irregularly convoluted nuclei. Adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) was diagnosed based on proliferation of CD4-positive lymphocytes, positive anti-HTLV-I ant...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Okamura T,Shibuya T,Harada M,Niho Y

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant DNA polymorphisms have been reported in the beta-globin gene cluster of epsilon-G gamma-A gamma-psi beta-delta-beta-gene region, in normal (Hb AA) individuals and in patients with sickle cell anaemia (SCA). Investigations of the extent of the DNA polymorphisms in the beta A- and beta S-globin gene cluster ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： el-Hazmi MA,Bahakim HM,Warsy AS

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 27-year-old male developed massive generalized lymphadenopathy with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) presenting as extramedullary blast crisis mimicking a lymphocytic lymphoma. On presentation, a consistent chromosomal abnormality involving chromosomes 8 and 13, i.e. 46,XY,t(8;13) (q11;p11), was present in lym...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Rao PH,Cesarman G,Coleman M,Acaron S,Verma RS

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 26-year-old female with Ki-1-positive large-cell anaplastic lymphoma is reported. The neoplastic cells were phenotypically and genotypically of T cell origin. Initially, neoplastic cells invaded the skin and lymph nodes, and then invaded the sternal and vertebral bones, ribs and the iliopsoas muscle. Central nervous...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Tsukamoto N,Morita K,Maehara T,Mitsuhashi M,Karasawa M,Murakami H,Omine M,Naruse T,Yatabe H

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary results from the first 21 patients of a group of 30 with International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) stage II-IV epithelial ovarian carcinoma and anaemia are reported. Patients entered this open-label, comparative-group, out-patient study and were randomized to receive conventional suppor...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： James RD,Wilkinson PM,Belli F,Welch R,Cowan R

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual complication of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is reported. The patient, a 79-year-old man, had a long standing history of CLL, that had been complicated by the development of a Guillain-Barré-like syndrome and a peripheral biclonal gammopathy. The biclonal immunoglobulins identified in the serum were I...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Ruiz P,Moezzi M,Chamizo W,Ganjei P,Whitcomb CC,Rey LC

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last 18 years, we have observed 24 cases of hypoparathyroidism (HPT) in beta-thalassemia major. At present, 4.5% of patients followed regularly in our department have this complication. HPT is thought to be mainly the consequence of iron deposition in the parathyroid glands. The age of our patients when HPT was...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： De Sanctis V,Vullo C,Bagni B,Chiccoli L

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of total-body cold exposure on plasma concentrations of von Willebrand factor (vWF), endothelin-1 (ET) and thrombomodulin (TM), all of which are considered to be generated from the endothelium, was studied in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients with and without Raynaud's phenomenon. The plasma level...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Matsuda J,Tsukamoto M,Gohchi K,Saitoh N,Miyajima Y,Kazama M

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulation factor VIII inhibitor arising in a patient with autoimmune disease was immunologically analyzed. A 63-year-old man who had been diagnosed as suffering from polyarteritis nodosa was treated with prednisolone for 10 years. Severe bleeding tendency developed and coagulation studies demonstrated a high titer o...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Okamura T,Yamauchi Y,Fukuda T,Suehiro K,Murakawa M,Shibuya T,Nagasawa K,Harada M,Niho Y

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new case of IgE myeloma is described. A 77-year-old woman presented with bone pain and fatigue. Serum protein analysis revealed a paraprotein of the IgE kappa type; bone marrow aspirate and immunofluorescence confirmed the diagnosis; ultrastructural examination showed immature plasma cells. Treatment with prednisone...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Invernizzi F,Monti G,Caviglia AG,Meroni P,Zanussi C

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The last few years have seen an enormous increase in our knowledge on the haematopoietic growth factor erythropoietin (Epo), firstly with its purification and determination of its primary amino acid sequence, and more recently with the isolation of the Epo gene and its expression in mammalian cell lines. This review a...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Foa P

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Premature neonates require blood transfusions, and biological parents may wish to be directed donors. Biological mothers pose a potential danger because their plasma may contain antibodies that will react with blood cell antigens inherited by the infant from the father. We studied 25 healthy, pregnant women at the tim...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Elbert C,Strauss RG,Barrett F,Goeken NE,Pittner B,Cordle D

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant alpha-interferons are used as therapeutic agents in an increasing number of benign and malignant disorders. Long-term administration of recombinant alpha-interferon as a maintenance agent is associated with a small number of adverse side-effects which are responsible for patient intolerance of this drug. T...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Giles FJ,Worman CP,Jewell AP,Goldstone AH

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of acquired haemophilia A presenting with extensive spontaneous bruising and anaemia is reported. The anaemia was due to myelodysplastic syndrome (FAB: refractory anaemia with ringed sideroblasts). A factor-VII:C-specific inhibitor was also found. Prednisone and pyridoxine were given, and the inhibitor became u...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Lin CK,Liang R,Liu HW,Tse PW,Chan GT

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00