abstract：:Patients with primary refractory or relapsed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who undergo intensive salvage chemotherapy carry a high risk of treatment failure due to infectious complications and early relapses. The study presented here assessed the effect of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) on the duration o...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Kern W,Aul C,Maschmeyer G,Kuse R,Kerkhoff A,Grote-Metke A,Eimermacher H,Kubica U,Wörmann B,Büchner T,Hiddemann W

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 77-year-old man developed pneumonitis while on chlorambucil therapy for chronic lymphocytic leukemia, with a cumulative dose of 2700 mg. The condition improved promptly with the discontinuation of the drug and initiation of steroids. A case report and review of the literature are presented in this paper. ...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Khong HT,McCarthy J

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the effects of recombinant human thrombopoietin (TPO, mpl ligand) on the megakaryocyte colony formation from control human bone marrow cells, human leukemia cells at diagnosis, and human bone marrow cells after induction chemotherapy for acute leukemias. In the control human bone marrow cells from four...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Liang DC,Shih LY,Kuo MC,Chen SH,Liu HC,Shimosaka A

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-dose chemotherapy (HDT) and stem cell transplantation is a newer treatment option widely applied in poor-risk germ cell tumor patients. Due to the increasing practical clinical experience and the availability of hematopoietic growth factors, this treatment approach has become a relatively safe procedure. Dependin...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Siegert W,Rick O,Beyer J

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactivation of fetal hemoglobin synthesis in adulthood can be seen in hematological disorders affecting the erythropoietic system. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the incidence and prognostic significance of increased hemoglobin F in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome. Hemoglobin F concentratio...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Reinhardt D,Haase D,Schoch C,Wollenweber S,Hinkelmann E,v Heyden W,Lentini G,Wörmann B,Schröter W,Pekrun A

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presenting features of 356 previously untreated multiple myeloma (MM) patients grouped according to age were analyzed in order (a) to elucidate the possible differences in initial clinical and laboratory features between patients younger than 50 years and the older ones and (b) to statistically assess the prognost...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Corso A,Klersy C,Lazzarino M,Bernasconi C

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Chlorodeoxyadenosine (2-CdA) is a purine analogue which has proved to be active in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), especially in children. In adults, results yielded by 2-CdA alone or with ara-C were less encouraging. Here we report on the efficacy of 2-CdA with or without daunorubicin (DNR) in 19 relapsing or refract...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Van Den Neste E,Martiat P,Mineur P,Delannoy A,Doyen C,Zenebergh A,Michaux JL,Ferrant A

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 40-year-old patient with low-grade B-NHL developed a generalized macular-papular rash following the first cycle of fludarabine treatment which progressed to a complete epidermal necrolysis following the second cycle. Clinical symptoms and the results of the direct and indirect immunofluorescence were consistent with...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Braess J,Reich K,Willert S,Strutz F,Neumann C,Hiddemann W,Wörmann B

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to analyze the ability of an alloantibody from a patient with severe von Willebrand disease (vWD) to interfere with the vWF domain for FVIII, to inhibit factor VIII (FVIII), and to compare it with a rabbit polyclonal antibody. The vWF domain for binding to FVIII was assayed by a method previo...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Batlle J,Lourés E,Vila P,Hernández MC,Méndez JA,Torea J,Rendal E,Couselo MJ,Filgueira A,López Fernández MF

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the role of hematopoietic growth factors (HGFs) and other cytokines in the autocrine or paracrine regulation of inducible hematopoiesis we studied cytokine gene expression in the bone marrow (BM) of patients after myelosuppressive treatment. Furthermore, we studied the cytokine gene expression profile in ...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Cluitmans FH,Esendam BH,Veenhof WF,Landegent JE,Willemze R,Falkenburg JH

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two male patients with severe and recurrent bleeding episodes under phenprocoumon therapy are reported. Both patients exhibited a strong decrease of their factor IX activities below 1% of normal, whereas the activities of the vitamin K-dependent factors prothrombin, VII, and X were found to be within or above the expe...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Quenzel EM,Hertfelder HJ,Oldenburg J

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelodysplastic syndromes are usually associated with pancytopenia. Disorders involving deletion of the long arm of chromosome 5 (5q-syndrome) and, rarely, patients with karyotypic abnormalities involving chromosome 3 associated with abnormal thrombopoiesis may have a normal or even raised platelet count. Other cytoge...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Patel K,Kelsey P

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A particular case of marginal zone B-cell lymphoma (MZBCL) presenting with leukemic lymphocytes is reported. In the present observation, the leukemic cells not only displayed a remarkable morphological fluctuation but also had an unusual phenotype, changing with time. These phenotypic features, which have been functio...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Dargent JL,Delville JP,Kornreich A,Pradier O,Cochaux P,Velu T,Capel P,Feremans W,Neve P

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The patient was initially diagnosed as having non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and was cured following treatment with prednisolone, vincristine, daunorubicin, 1-asparaginase, and cyclophosphamide. Seven years and two months later, he developed osteosarcoma in his right femur. He received chemotherapy consisting of methotrexate,...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Kubota M,Sawada M,Watanabe K,Koishi S,Kataoka A,Usami I,Lin YW,Okuda A,Akiyama Y,Furusho K

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested two Fc gamma receptor I (Fc gamma RI); six Fc gamma RII; and six Fc gamma RIII-specific monoclonal antibodies (mAb) for their capacity to inhibit monocyte and polymorphonuclear granulocyte (PMN) immune phagocytosis which is mediated by Fc gamma R. We used human red blood cells (rbc) coated with hIgG1 or mIgG...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Flesch BK,Achtert G,Neppert J

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy with dysproteinemia (AILD) is an atypical lympho-proliferative disorder with borderline features that often constitute a diagnostic challenge for the hematopathologist and a therapeutic dilemma for the treating clinician. Morphologically, the involved lymph nodes in this disorder are...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Sallah AS,Bernard S

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety patients with Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myelogenous leukemia in blast crisis were reviewed to identify significant prognostic associations. At diagnosis of blast crisis the main clinical, laboratory, and cytogenetic data were recorded and evaluated for prognostic significance. At the time of the ...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Griesshammer M,Heinze B,Hellmann A,Popp C,Anger B,Heil G,Bangerter M,Heimpel H

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found increased numbers of CD28-negative T cells in a patient with multicentric Castleman's disease (MCD), who also had significantly decreased interleukin-2 (IL-2) production and impaired T-cell proliferation. The presence of CD28-negative T cells may be indicative of a functional T-cell defect in MCD. ...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Ishiyama T,Koike M,Kakimoto T,Akimoto Y,Tsuruoka N

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five major subtypes of human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) have been proposed: cosmopolitan, Japanese, West African, Central African, and Melanesian. Based on nucleotide variations specific to particular subtypes, it was possible to genotype HTLV-I rapidly by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) stud...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Lin MT,Yang YC,Chen PJ,Tang JI,Tseng LH,Wang CW,Chen YC

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cytopenia is a common manifestation of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), isolated thrombocytopenia is rare. The term "refractory thrombocytopenia" (RTC) has been proposed as a counterpart of refractory anemia. We describe here a case of RTC associated with chromosome abnormality on 11q23. A 59-year-old man was ...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Imoto S,Hayashi Y,Matsui T,Murayama T,Iwata N,Matsuoka H,Nagata A,Itoh H,Chihara K

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lymphoplasmocytoid immunocytoma (Waldenström's disease) is a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of low malignancy. The disease is defined by the production of monoclonal IgM-globulins in the bone marrow. These macroglobulins affect the aggregation of thrombocytes and bind the coagulation factors, which leads not only to hemor...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Vécsei PV,Kircher K,Egger S,Bettelheim HC

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical targets for which new generations of antithrombotics have been or are currently under clinical development are those associated with a high risk for thromboembolism, (a) patients undergoing general, orthopedic, major abdominal, and cancer surgery, to prevent venous thromboembolism; (b) patients with deep-...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Beijering RJ,ten Cate H,ten Cate JW

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cell factor (SCF), also termed mast cell growth factor or c-kit ligand, plays a central role in the regulation of hematopoiesis and maintenance of viability of hematopoietic cells. We used a new murine monoclonal antibody (MAb) specific for canine SCF to further dissect the role of SCF in vitro and in vivo. This ...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Huss R,Hong DS,Beckham C,Storb R,Broudy VC,Deeg HJ

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uptake and biochemical and biological effects of antisense oligodeoxynucleotides (ODN) specific for c-abl and bcr genes were studied in normal immature myeloid cells. CD34-positive cells were purified by positive and negative selection and cultured in liquid culture for 7 days. These cells were then incubated with ODN...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Albrecht T,Schwab R,Peschel C,Engels HJ,Fischer T,Huber C,Aulitzky WE

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoantibody against erythrocytes has occasionally been observed in patients with de novo acute myelocytic leukemia (AML). However, it is not clear whether this autoantibody in AML patients induces frank hemolysis (autoimmune hemolytic anemia, AIHA), as seen in lymphoid neoplasms. We present two de novo AML patients w...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Tamura H,Ogata K,Yokose N,An E,Kamikubo K,Dan K,Kajii E,Nomura T

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the value of aerosol amphotericin B inhalations for prevention of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA), we initiated a prospective randomized multicenter trial. The scheduled intent-to-treat interim analysis included 115 patients (30%) with prolonged neutropenia after chemotherapy for acute myeloid leuk...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Behre GF,Schwartz S,Lenz K,Ludwig WD,Wandt H,Schilling E,Heinemann V,Link H,Trittin A,Boenisch O

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared the kinetics of minimal residual disease (MRD) by simultaneous polymerase chain reaction (PCR) monitoring with oligonucleotides for the immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) complementarity-determining region 3 (CDR3) and the T-cell receptor gamma chain gene (TCR gamma), as well as clone-specific CDR3 sequ...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Scholten C,Födinger M,Mitterbauer M,Laczika K,Mitterbauer G,Haas OA,Knöbl P,Schwarzinger I,Thalhammer R,Purtscher B

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishing reference ranges by multiparametric immunophenotyping of mature B cells in bone marrow of healthy adults is of interest because the detection of bone marrow infiltration and persistence of light chain restriction, as well as discrimination between reactive and malignant lymphocytes are important applicati...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Höffkes HG,Schmidtke G,Schmücker U,Uppenkamp M,Brittinger G

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-6 (IL-6) has been shown to be an inducer of the acute-phase response (APR) and to be involved in the pathogenesis of several disease states, including graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) following allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT). As blood cells of the monocyte lineage are known to be major produc...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Pechumer H,Wilhelm M,Ziegler-Heitbrock HW

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this review is to summarize the current knowledge on the clinical results of biotherapy of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) and potential mechanisms of the antitumor action of interferon alpha. IFN alpha treatment induces hematologic and cytogenetic remissions in patients with chronic phase CML. In additi...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Aulitzky WE,Peschel C,Schneller F,Huber C

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repeated courses of HD IVIg are reported to induce stable remission in a significant proportion of adults with chronic refractory ITP. We have treated 14 such patients obtaining a remission rate quite comparable to the 5-10% of spontaneous remission. ...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Schiavotto C,Ruggeri M,Rodeghiero F

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes six Indian families in which silent-gene beta-thalassemia was encountered by us in the past 2 years. This stresses the importance of globin-chain synthesis in the diagnosis of beta-thalassemia. Of these six cases, five were diagnosed retrospectively when they had a homozygous beta-thalassemia offs...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Nadkarni A,Pawar A,Mudera VC,Mohanty D,Colah R

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted an investigation to clarify whether or not the levels of total, free, and functional protein S and C4-binding protein (C4bp) in plasma are decreased in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients, especially those with antiphospholipid antibody (aPL), which is known to be a causative factor of such compli...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Matsuda J,Gohchi K,Gotoh M,Tsukamoto M,Saitoh N

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythropoietin, alone or in combination with colony-stimulating factors, is a promising agent in the treatment of patients with cancer-related 'anemia of chronic disorders', chemo/radiotherapy-induced anemia, or anemia due to myelodysplastic or myeloproliferative syndromes. In the first two groups, at least half of th...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Dührsen U,Hossfeld DK

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the beneficial effect of recombinant alpha 2b interferon in a woman with an idiopathic and refractory IgM-mediated autoimmune hemolytic anemia due to low-titer, high-thermal-amplitude cold agglutinins. The response was partial but sustained, 2 months after interruption of interferon, with hemoglobin concen...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Fest T,de Wazières B,Lamy B,Maskani M,Vuitton D,Dupond JL

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response to intravenous immunoglobulin treatment (IVIG) is thought, in part, to be due to blockade of Fc receptor for IgG in the mononuclear phagocyte system (MPS). We have studied this by measuring splenic clearance of heat-damaged and IgG antibody-coated red cells in immune thrombocytopenic patients receiving IV...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Newland AC,Macey MG

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo, growth factors are currently investigated for their capacity to trigger leukemic stem cells into cycle and thus overcome kinetic drug resistance. In this study, the susceptibility of leukemic clonogenic cells to individual growth factors was related to cytosine-arabinoside (Ara-C) sensitivity. The effects of ...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Van der Lely N,De Witte T,Wessels J,Raymakers R,Muus P,Preijers F

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (rhG-CSF) and erythropoietin (rhE-PO) were used to treat ten patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). None of the patients showed a favorable response in erythrocyte and platelet counts following 10 weeks' treatment, although favorable responses in neutroph...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Imamura M,Kobayashi M,Kobayashi S,Yoshida K,Mikuni C,Ishikawa Y,Matsumoto S,Sakamaki S,Niitsu Y,Hinoda Y

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the origin of peripheral blood cells and bone marrow cells of 92 samples obtained from 19 patients after allo BMT by two-step polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of MCT118, one of the variable number of tandem repeat regions (VNTR) which has a different length in 19 of 32 sibling pairs examined, ...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Tanaka J,Kasai M,Imamura M,Higa T,Kobayashi S,Hashino S,Sakurada K,Miyazaki T

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous splenic rupture is a rare, though life-threatening complication of some hematological malignancies and is even more infrequent as the initial symptom of acute lymphoblastic leukemia. We describe the fourth case, to our knowledge, of acute lymphoblastic leukemia presenting as splenic rupture, and for the fi...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Altès A,Brunet S,Martinez C,Soler J,Ayats R,Sureda A,López R,Domingo A

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00