abstract：:A 72-year-old-man with night sweats and a low-grade fever was found to have bilateral adrenal enlargement associated with incipient adrenal insufficiency. Without any intervention, these adrenal lesions regressed spontaneously, accompanied by disappearance of clinical symptoms. Seven months later, however, the lesions...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Fujiwara T,Kawamura M,Sasaki A,Asahi H,Sasou S,Itoh S,Hiramori K

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients previously diagnosed with invasive aspergillosis (IA) have been considered to be at risk for relapse of mycosis during subsequent hematopoietic transplant. Even with prophylactic measures, reactivation of the infection occurs in 29% of patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation (BMT). A period of neutrop...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Sevilla J,Hernandez-Maraver D,Aguado MJ,Ojeda E,Morado M,Hernandez-Navarro F

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnosis of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is usually based upon the clinical features, and does not always involve histopathological evidence. We recently had experience with a patient who developed the five signs characteristic for TTP. He had been treated for liver cirrhosis associated with chronic hepa...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Hori A,Kami M,Hamaki T,Yamamoto T,Mori M,Miyakoshi S,Takeuchi K

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 64-year-old woman with adult T cell leukemia (ATL) was admitted to our hospital with severe hypercalcemia. The serum calcium level was elevated to 14.9 mg/dl. Biochemical parameters for bone formation including serum osteocalcin (bone Gla protein, BGP) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) were normal. The serum levels of ...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Hino M,Yamane T,Ohta K,Shioi A,Koyama H,Tahara H,Nishizawa Y,Tatsumi N

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis was conducted in four members of the same family, two of whom had a history of severe bleeding associated with type 2B von Willebrand's disease (VWD) which, although found to be due to the same mutation, nevertheless exhibited different phenotype patterns in the two subjects involved. Von Willebrand's fact...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Rendal E,Penas N,Larrabeiti B,Pérez A,Vale A,López-Fernández MF,Batlle J

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) express prothrombinase following stimulation with bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS). LPS-stimulated PBMC devoid of contaminating platelets failed to activate prothrombin directly. Addition of platelets did not result in expression of prothrombina...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Pejler G,Geczy CL

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with painful peripheral neuropathy is presented, whose symptoms were thought to result from an infection with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato. Investigations of the cerebrospinal fluid for signs of inflammation and borrelial antibodies were negative, and the patient did not benefit from repeated antibiotic t...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Behringer D,Spyridonidis A,Fetscher S,Schmitt-Gräff A,Högerle S,Kaiser R

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE AND METHODS:Nowadays more people are becoming older. The median age of a patient with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) at diagnosis is over 60 years. The incidence of NHL in elderly has increased in the last decades. Therefore, in the future, NHL will be diagnosed more often in the elderly. Data of all patients in ...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Peters FP,Lalisang RI,Fickers MM,Erdkamp FL,Wils JA,Houben SG,Wals J,Schouten HC

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transplantation of peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC), positively and/or negatively selected immediately after harvest, has become a widely applied therapeutic option in hematological or oncological patients. The following case of peripheral blood stem cell transplantation represents the first case of successful trans...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Humpe A,Riggert J,Wolf C,Binder C,Köhler M

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In multiple myeloma, the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of the Ig heavy chain with allele-specific oligonucleotide (ASO) primers is a common and well-described method of identifying the tumor clone in peripheral blood (PB), bone marrow (BM) or leukapheresis products (LA). A factor which is crucial to the detection of...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Draube A,Pfister R,Vockerodt M,Schuster S,Kube D,Diehl V,Tesch H

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report we show that serum has differentiation-inducing effects on primitive hematopoietic progenitor cells with the CD34++CD38- immunophenotype. Using the pre-colony forming unit (pre-CFU) assay as a model for early myelopoiesis, we compared the effects of serum-containing and serum-free media and evaluated di...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Willems R,Henckaerts E,Lenjou M,Nijs G,Rodrigus I,Moulijn AC,Slegers H,Berneman ZN,Van Bockstaele DR

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We discuss possible justifications to split study populations from a biometrical point of view. The existence of prognostic differences between subgroups are neither a sufficient nor a necessary reason to justify a splitting decision. There are essentially two separate types of relevant arguments to justify a split of...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Hasenclever D,Loeffler M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to their homing properties, extranodal marginal zone B-cell lymphoma (MZBL) of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) type remain localized for long periods of time, and therefore have an excellent prognosis. However, if generalization and/or transformation into a diffuse large-cell lymphoma occurs, the prognosi...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Neumeister P,Hoefler G,Beham-Schmid C,Sill H,Linkesch W

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron status, i.e. serum ferritin and haemoglobin (Hb) levels, was assessed in a population survey in 1994 (Dan-Monica 10) comprising 1319 Caucasian Danish women in age cohorts of 40, 50, 60 and 70 years. In the entire series, ferritin levels increased significantly from 40 years to 60 years of age. The prevalence of s...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Milman N,Byg KE,Ovesen L

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report about a 28-year-old woman with relapsed mantle cell lymphoma (MCL, centrocytic lymphoma according to the Kiel classification) refractory to salvage chemotherapy. The patient underwent allogeneic bone marrow transplantation from a HLA-identical brother after myeloablative chemotherapy consisting of busulfan, ...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Kröger N,Hoffknecht M,Krüger W,Zeller W,Renges H,Stute N,Zschaber R,Zander AR

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The current study was initiated to assess the clinical efficacy and side effects of rituximab in patients with relapsed advanced stage follicular lymphoma. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The study was performed as an open-label non-randomized multicenter phase-II trial and included patients older than 18 years of age wi...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Feuring-Buske M,Kneba M,Unterhalt M,Engert A,Gramatzki M,Hiller E,Trümper L,Brugger W,Ostermann H,Atzpodien J,Hallek M,Aulitzky E,Hiddemann W

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1) on endothelial cells is involved in the recruitment of leukocytes to inflammatory sites. In contrast to ICAM-1 expression on endothelial cells, little is known about its function in leukocytes in inflammation. Using ICAM-1-directed anti-sense oligodeoxyribonucleotides (OD...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Steidl U,Haas R,Kronenwett R

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We encountered two patients who presented with hypochromic-microcytic anemia and were refractory to iron therapy. The symptoms were suggestive of anemia of chronic disease (ACD); however, there was no evidence of any such disease, either inflammatory or malignant. These patients were reminiscent of patients originally...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Besa EC,Kim PW,Haurani FI

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a patient with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia who showed disseminated papules and nodules. Arguments in favor of leukemia cutis are the clinical appearance, the cyclic pattern with which the lesions appeared and disappeared, and the histologic features. The lesions reproducibly responded to treatment with ...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Wintzen M,Kluin PM,den Ottolander GJ

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This retrospective single-center study compared thromboembolic and hemorrhagic complications, survival and causes of death in a cohort of 102 consecutive patients with myeloproliferative disorders (MPD). We included 17 patients with essential thrombocythemia (ET), 59 with polycythemia vera (PV), and 26 with osteomyelo...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Brodmann S,Passweg JR,Gratwohl A,Tichelli A,Skoda RC

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amifostine increases in vitro burst-forming unit-erythroid and colony-forming unit-granulocyte/granulcoyte-macrophage cultured from bone-marrow cells from patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Several small clinical studies give divergent informations about the potential of amifostine as single agent to improv...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Hofmann WK,Seipelt G,Ottmann OG,Kalina U,Koschmieder S,Brücher J,Frickhofen N,Klausmann M,Mitrou PS,Hoelzer D

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a patient who was diagnosed as having B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) with atypical morphology. Flow cytometry disclosed CD5, CD19, and CD23 positivity, an immunophenotype seen mostly in B-CLL. Histology of the spleen and bone marrow suggested a diagnosis of small lymphocytic lymphoma. Upon blas...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Späth-Schwalbe E,Flath B,Kaufmann O,Thiel G,Brinckmann R,Dietel M,Possinger K

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon alpha (IFN) inhibits the growth of the abnormal clone in patients with myeloproliferative disorders, leading to a reduction of the clinical and laboratory signs of the pathologic myeloproliferation. The therapeutic efficacy of IFN in polycythemia vera (PV) is demonstrated by the summarized treatment results...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Lengfelder E,Berger U,Hehlmann R

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of thrombocytopenia following exposure to the platelet glycoprotein (GP) IIb/ IIIa receptor antagonist abciximab (c7E3 Fab, ReoPro) is associated with adverse clinical outcome and excessive bleeding. Pseudothrombocytopenia is an important differential diagnosis in sudden onset of thrombocytopenia in a ...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Stiegler H,Fischer Y,Steiner S,Strauer BE,Reinauer H

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutral red is a vital stain known to be accumulated in the lysosomes of neutrophils and monocytes. It is used mainly to identify and detect the activated state of these cells. We have found that the extracellular application of physiological ceramide, i.e., a product of sphingomyelin hydrolysis and a newly defined in...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Sipka S,Antal-Szalmás P,Szöllösi I,Csipö I,Lakos G,Szegedi G

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blastic transformation of essential thrombocythemia (ET) preceded by chemotherapy is occasionally described in the literature. In ET as well as in other myeloproliferative disorders the leukemogenic effect of alkylating agents and (32)P is well established, and recent reports also indicate a certain leukemogenic effec...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Andersson PO,Ridell B,Wadenvik H,Kutti J

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of sickle cell disease crisis and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura has been described only a few times. Here we present the case of a patient with a hemolytic crisis due to sickle cell disease complicated by thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. We also review the cases previously reported and compar...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Bolaños-Meade J,Keung YK,López-Arvizu C,Florendo R,Cobos E

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although eosinophilia has been reported as a side effect of purine analogues, there is no report on fludarabine-induced eosinophilia in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). During chemotherapy with fludarabine and cyclophosphamide, we observed two cases of significant eosinophilia. A 67-year-old patient with CLL develo...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Sezer O,Schmid P,Hallek M,Schweigert M,Beinert T,Langelotz C,Mergenthaler HG,Possinger K

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current phase-II trial was initiated to assess the efficacy and toxicity of the Ida-FLAG regimen in patients with poor-risk acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Three subgroups of patients with AML were eligible for the study: (a) refractory, (b) first relapse, or (c) secondary AML (i.e., signs of trilineage myelodysplas...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Steinmetz HT,Schulz A,Staib P,Scheid C,Glasmacher A,Neufang A,Franklin J,Tesch H,Diehl V,Dias Wickramanayake P

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Umbilical cord blood is capable of hematopoietic stem cell reconstitution in children. However, the major limitation of cord blood is a relatively low content of pluripotent progenitor cells. Thus, safe engraftment for adolescents and for adults is still not predictable and a technology for ex vivo expansion of umbili...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Schwinger W,Benesch M,Lackner H,Kerbl R,Walcher M,Urban C

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of chronic idiopathic neutropenia of adults (CINA) among an apparently healthy population born and living on the island of Crete. The study was carried out with 778 subjects, 392 men aged 16-78 years (median 43 years) and 386 women aged 15-79 years (median...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Papadaki HA,Xylouri I,Coulocheri S,Kalmanti M,Kafatos A,Eliopoulos GD

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of erythropoietin (Epo), the glycoprotein hormone which controls red blood cell formation, is regulated by feedback mechanisms sensing tissue oxygenation. The mechanism of the putative oxygen sensor has yet to be elucidated. There is evidence that at least two pathways participate in hypoxia signal tran...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Daghman NA,Elder GE,Savage GA,Winter PC,Maxwell AP,Lappin TR

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indolent follicular lymphomas are diseases which are generally incurable with conventional therapy. Although patients can survive for prolonged periods, the median duration of first remissions is about 2.5 years, and subsequent remissions progressively shorten with time. High-dose therapy with hematopoietic stem cell ...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Friedberg JW,Freedman AS

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydroxyurea is a drug widely used to control myeloproliferative disorders, due in part to its relative lack of severe side effects. We present a case of acute interstitial pneumonitis in a patient who was treated with hydroxyurea for essential thrombocythemia. The clinical course suggests that the interstitial pneumon...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Quintás-Cardama A,Pérez-Encinas M,Gonzalez S,Bendaña A,Bello JL

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study of 120 patients with the clinically and histologically established diagnosis of idiopathic (primary) myelofibrosis (IMF) was performed to determine prognostic factors of predictive value, including parameters characterizing the dynamics of hematopoietic cell kinetics. In contrast to previous stud...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Kvasnicka HM,Thiele J,Regn C,Zankovich R,Diehl V,Fischer R

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 24-year-old woman with a large cell anaplastic CD 30-positive T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) developed downbeat nystagmus, anisocoria, and oscillopsia. Prior to overt cerebral invasion by NHL, she had a thiamine deficiency with very low thiamine concentrations in the CSF, probably caused by protracted vomiting ...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Mulder AH,Raemaekers JM,Boerman RH,Mattijssen V

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An acute leukemia with an unusual immunophenotype developed in a 17-year-old girl. At the initial presentation, extramedullary involvement was not evident, but with advancing disease, massive splenomegaly and an osteolytic rib tumor developed. The disease was aggressive and refractory to intensive chemotherapeutic reg...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Ino T,Tsuzuki M,Okamoto M,Shamoto M,Hirano M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight patients who were carriers of beta-thalassemia induced by the cd121 (G-->T) mutation are described in four nonrelated Dutch families. This mutant, which is considered rare and inherited in a dominant manner, is expressed in a different way among each of the four families and even among carriers of the same famil...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Giordano PC,Harteveld CL,Michiels JJ,Terpstra W,Schelfhout LJ,Appel IM,Batelaan D,van Delft P,Plug RJ,Bernini LF

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A female patient presenting with B-CLL and coincident eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome (EMS) after ingestion of L-tryptophan is described. The manifestations of EMS disappeared completely during treatment with cyclophosphamide/prednisone. and there was an intermittent clinical remission of CLL with absence of the monoclo...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Böhme A,Wolter M,Hoelzer D

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aplastic anemia is a rare complication of thymoma and is properly documented in only few cases. Here, we report the case of a previously healthy, 65-year-old patient who was found simultaneously to have a spindle-cell thymoma and severe hypoplastic anemia with a mild infiltration of the bone marrow by CD4+ and CD8+ T ...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Liozon E,Touati M,Allegraud A,Gachard N,Loustaud V,Vidal E,Bordessoule D

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00