abstract：:Elevation of echocardiography-determined tricuspid regurgitant jet velocity (TRV) predicts high systolic pulmonary artery pressure. The present study tested the hypotheses that elevated tricuspid regurgitant jet velocity is associated with both hemolysis and hypoxia and abnormal 6-min walk test (6MWT) results. This st...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Agha H,El Tagui M,El Ghamrawy M,Abdel Hady M

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most cases of erythrocytosis occur secondary to chronic tissue hypoxia or as a clonal disease such as polycythemia vera with somatic mutations in the Janus kinase 2 (JAK2) gene. Rarely, erythrocytosis is caused by hereditary gene mutations. This study investigated hereditary gene mutations in 38 unrelated Korean patie...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Jang JH,Seo JY,Jang J,Jung CW,Lee KO,Kim SH,Kim HJ

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkitt lymphoma (BL) is an aggressive B-cell lymphoma more common in children comprising one third of pediatric non-Hodgkin lymphoma cases. The recent discovery in BL pathogenesis highlighted the activation of PI3K pathway in cooperation with Myc in the development of BL. In this study, we demonstrated that PI3K/Akt ...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Ferreira AC,Robaina MC,Rezende LM,Severino P,Klumb CE

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:African Americans have two- to three-fold higher incidence of multiple myeloma and MGUS compared to other ethnic groups in the USA. Some physicians often perform diagnostic evaluations for plasma cell disorders (PCD) in African American patients on the basis of hematological abnormalities (thrombocytopenia, leucopenia...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Tun NM,Joseph G,Soe AM,Ford JG

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to evaluate retrospectively the clinical characteristics, treatments, and outcomes of patients with primary diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) of the female genital tract. The basic characteristics, treatments, and outcomes of six patients diagnosed with primary DLBCL of the female g...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Cao XX,Li J,Zhang W,Duan MH,Shen T,Zhou DB

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An investigation into the effects of irradiation and of the storage time on aging and quality are a relevant issue to ensure the safety and the efficiency of irradiation in the prevention of transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease (TA-GVHD). In this work, the biochemical properties and alterations presented b...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Maia GA,Renó Cde O,Medina JM,Silveira AB,Mignaco JA,Atella GC,Cortes VF,Barbosa LA,Santos Hde L

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute leukemia (AL) patients may experience more than one episode of bloodstream infection (BSI) caused by the same pathogen during the entire chemotherapy program. In order to identify factors influencing BSI recurrence (R-BSI) during subsequent phases of treatment, we analyzed all BSIs occurring to consecutively tre...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Cattaneo C,Antoniazzi F,Tumbarello M,Skert C,Borlenghi E,Schieppati F,Cerqui E,Pagani C,Petullà M,Re A,Rossi G

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-engraftment syndrome (PES) is a condition occurring after umbilical cord blood transplantation (UCBT) characterized by fever and erythematous skin rash prior to neutrophil engraftment. We sought to determine the incidence and characterize the pulmonary manifestations of PES. A retrospective review of patients who ...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Brownback KR,Simpson SQ,McGuirk JP,Lin TL,Abhyankar S,Ganguly S,Aljitawi OS

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic mutations in the SF3B1 gene, a gene encoding the splicing factor 3B subunit 1, were recently reported in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), particularly in the presence of ring sideroblasts (RS). The authors investigated the prevalence and clinical significance of SF3B1 mutations in Korean patients with myeloid ...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Seo JY,Lee KO,Kim SH,Kim K,Jung CW,Jang JH,Kim HJ

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solitary plasmacytoma of bone (SPB) is a rare tumor that represents a minority of patients with plasma cell localized malignancy characterized by a single osteolytic bone lesion. The molecular mechanism underlying the genesis of SPB has remained enigmatic. Signal transducers and activators of transcription-3 (STAT3) i...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Guo S,Zhi Y,Yang H,Yu Y,Wang Y,Zhang J,Wang G,Zhang L,Sun B,Zhang Y

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This retrospective study evaluated the benefit of alemtuzumab monotherapy in unselected patients with advanced B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and prolymphocytic leukemia (B-PLL) to definitely describe the impact of this antibody in clinical routine use. Data were collected from 208 consecutive, mainly pretr...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Fiegl M,Stauder R,Steurer M,Mian M,Hopfinger G,Brychtova Y,Skrabs C,Zabernigg A,Schmid F,Haslbaur F,Winder G,Walder A,Lang A,Voskova D,Greil R,Mayer J,Gastl G,Austrian Collaborative Study Group on Alemtuzumab in Chronic

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, the combination of rituximab and bendamustine (R-Benda) has been defined as highly active in patients with follicular lymphomas, but little is known about the efficacy of R-Benda in mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma. In a retrospective analysis, we have defined 14 patients with MALT lymphoma ...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Kiesewetter B,Mayerhoefer ME,Lukas J,Zielinski CC,Müllauer L,Raderer M

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematopoietic chimerism can be used as a tool for patient management after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). An increase in the proportion of recipient cells after transplantation is strongly associated with relapse in chronic myeloid leukemia. However, in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) the sign...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Waterhouse M,Bertz H,Finke J

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of their recognized risk of thrombosis, patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) show little or no abnormalities of traditional coagulation tests, perhaps because these are unable to represent the balance between pro- and anticoagulants nor the effect of platelets and blood cells. We investigated whet...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Tripodi A,Chantarangkul V,Gianniello F,Clerici M,Lemma L,Padovan L,Gatti L,Mannucci PM,Peyvandi F

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) in resource-poor population shows an early childhood peak with predominance of mixed cellularity (MCHL) and high Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) association, whereas HL in resource-rich population has a peak in ages 15-29 years with the predominance of nodular sclerosis (NSHL) and low EBV association. W...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Koh YW,Kang HJ,Yoon DH,Suh C,Kim JE,Kim CW,Huh J

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data on clinical features and outcome in pediatric follicular lymphoma (pFL) are scarce. The aim of this retrospective study including 13 EICNHL and/or i-BFM study group members was to assess clinical characteristics and course in a series of 63 pFL patients. pFL was found to be associated with male gender (3:1), olde...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Attarbaschi A,Beishuizen A,Mann G,Rosolen A,Mori T,Uyttebroeck A,Niggli F,Csoka M,Krenova Z,Mellgren K,Kabickova E,Chiang AK,Reiter A,Williams D,Burkhardt B,European Intergroup for Childhood Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (EICNHL) an

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphoma-associated hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a rare but fatal disease. Differences between B cell and T cell lymphoma-associated HLH remain unclear, specifically clinical characteristics and survival. We retrospectively analyzed 30 lymphoma-associated HLH patients from July 2004 to October 2012. Pat...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Yu JT,Wang CY,Yang Y,Wang RC,Chang KH,Hwang WL,Teng CL

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs are short noncoding RNAs, known regulators of several signaling pathways cell differentiation and proliferation, development, and apoptosis, which are deregulated in acute leukemia. Mixed lineage leukemia (MLL) gene encodes a protein with histone methyltransferase activity, which is essential for the fine tu...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Benetatos L,Vartholomatos G

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several revisions of International Prognostic Index (IPI) have been proposed for patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) after the introduction of rituximab. Expanding evidence suggests that baseline absolute lymphocyte count (ALC) is also an independent factor for outcome prediction. We investigated the o...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Huang YC,Liu CY,Lu HJ,Liu HT,Hung MH,Hong YC,Hsiao LT,Gau JP,Liu JH,Hsu HC,Chiou TJ,Chen PM,Tzeng CH,Yu YB

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have emerged as a therapeutic approach in a range of medical fields, including regenerative medicine, cancer, autoimmune diseases, and inflammatory diseases, because of their unique properties of tissue repair and major histocompatibility complex-unmatched immunosuppression. Because both ...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Kim N,Im KI,Lim JY,Jeon EJ,Nam YS,Kim EJ,Cho SG

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The appropriate management of patients with moderate aplastic anemia (mAA) remains to be unclear and controversial. A cohort of 118 patients with mAA received a novel immunosuppressive strategy of cyclosporine alternately combined with levamisole (CSA and LMS regimen), which included 42 newly diagnosed and 76 chronic ...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Li X,Shao Y,Ge M,Shi J,Huang J,Huang Z,Zhang J,Nie N,Zheng Y

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to determine the clinical characteristics and prognostic significance of the meningioma 1 (MN1) gene and MN1-associated microRNA expression in Chinese adult de novo acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients. The expression level of MN1, microRNA-20 (miR-20a), and microRNA-181b (miR-181b) in bone marrow mo...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Xiang L,Li M,Liu Y,Cen J,Chen Z,Zhen X,Xie X,Cao X,Gu W

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Second-generation azoles may be more effective than first-generation azoles in the prevention of fungal infections in hematology patients. We performed a systematic review with meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials comparing second- with first-generation azoles in hematology patients with respect to proven or ...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Ping B,Zhu Y,Gao Y,Yue C,Wu B

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antithymocyte globulin (ATG) is the drug of choice for immunosuppressive therapy (IST) in patients with severe aplastic anemia (SAA) ineligible for allogeneic stem cell transplantation. Recently, rabbit ATG with cyclosporine A has been used as a first-line IST regimen in patients with SAA because of unavailability of ...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Shin SH,Yoon JH,Yahng SA,Lee SE,Cho BS,Eom KS,Kim YJ,Lee S,Min CK,Kim HJ,Cho SG,Kim DW,Min WS,Park CW,Lee JW

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic hepatitis C (CHC) and iron overload are the main causes of liver disease in β-thalassemia major (βTM). There is limited data regarding the course of CHC in this population. All patients (n=144) from the thalassemia centre of the University Hospital of Patras were evaluated (January 1981 to June 2012). Patients...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Triantos C,Kourakli A,Kalafateli M,Giannakopoulou D,Koukias N,Thomopoulos K,Lampropoulou P,Bartzavali C,Fragopanagou H,Kagadis GC,Christofidou M,Tsamandas A,Nikolopoulou V,Karakantza M,Labropoulou-Karatza C

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations in hemoglobin oxygen affinity can be detected by exposing blood to different PO2 and recording oxygen saturation, a method termed tonometry. It is the gold standard to measure the PO2 associated with 50 % oxygen saturation, the index used to quantify oxygen affinity (P50Tono). P50Tono is used in the evalua...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Huber FL,Latshang TD,Goede JS,Bloch KE

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The severity of thalassemia is currently classified based on clinical manifestations and multiple tests. In the present study, we performed a plasma proteome analysis to identify differentially expressed proteins compared between normal subjects and patients with mild and severe forms of β-thalassemia/hemoglobin E (Hb...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Hatairaktham S,Srisawat C,Siritanaratkul N,Chiangjong W,Fucharoen S,Thongboonkerd V,Kalpravidh RW

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro studies suggest that haploinsufficiency is involved in the pathogenesis of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). In patients with del5q cytogenetic abnormality, RPS-14 and microRNAs (miRNAs) play a major role. In a multicenter phase II single-arm trial with lenalidomide in anemic primary del5q MDS patients with lo...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Oliva EN,Cuzzola M,Aloe Spiriti MA,Poloni A,Laganà C,Rigolino C,Morabito F,Galimberti S,Ghio R,Cortelezzi A,Palumbo GA,Sanpaolo G,Finelli C,Ricco A,Volpe A,Rodà F,Breccia M,Alimena G,Nobile F,Latagliata R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) is an aggressive hematologic malignancy with limited treatment strategies. Histone deacetylases inhibitors (HDACis) are promising novel tools for cancer therapy, whose anti-tumor effects and the underlying mechanisms on B-ALL remain to be elucidated. Recently, Notch1 signali...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Shao N,Ma D,Wang J,Lu T,Guo Y,Ji C

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Along with their immunogenic role, dendritic cells (DCs) are also critical in maintaining tolerance to self-antigens by inducing regulatory T cells (Tregs) via the expression of the immunomodulatory enzyme indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1). In turn, Tregs modulate the maturation and/or function of DCs. In immune th...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Catani L,Sollazzo D,Trabanelli S,Curti A,Evangelisti C,Polverelli N,Palandri F,Baccarani M,Vianelli N,Lemoli RM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cell neoplasms are unusual disorders. In this study we compared results of flow cytometric immunophenotype (FCI) with cytomorphology, histopathology and clinical findings in a series of patients with NK cell neoplasms with peripheral blood and/or bone marrow involvement, and the FCI of neoplastic a...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Jiang NG,Jin YM,Niu Q,Zeng TT,Su J,Zhu HL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Less toxic and more active treatments are needed for indolent lymphomas as there is no curative treatment, and patients eventually die due to complications related to their disease. The purpose of the present study was to assess the antitumour activity of the combination of low doses of Enzastaurin and Lenalidomide (R...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Cosenza M,Civallero M,Grisendi G,Marcheselli L,Roat E,Bari A,Sacchi S

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) expression in dendritic cells (DCs) can induce or maintain peripheral immune tolerance. Impaired IDO-mediated tryptophan catabolism has been observed in autoimmune diseases. In order to investigate the effects of IDO-mediated tryptophan catabolism and IDO-expressing DCs in immune thro...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Xu SQ,Wang CY,Zhu XJ,Dong XY,Shi Y,Peng J,Qin P,Sun JZ,Guo C,Ni H,Hou M

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that human mesenchymal stromal cells (hMSC) may derive from the malignant clone in hematological malignancies (HM) is a controversial issue. In order to clarify hMSC origin and disclose possible cytogenetic heterogeneity in hMSC belonging to different patients, bone marrow (BM)-derived hMSC samples fro...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Campioni D,Bardi MA,Cavazzini F,Tammiso E,Pezzolo E,Pregnolato E,Volta E,Cuneo A,Lanza F

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B cell-activating factor (BAFF) is a cytokine that plays a major role in the maintenance of normal B-cell development and homeostasis. It has been suggested that in multiple myeloma (MM) it might have regulatory effects on the proliferation and viability of malignant plasma cells. The aim of this study was to evaluate...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Fragioudaki M,Boula A,Tsirakis G,Psarakis F,Spanoudakis M,Papadakis IS,Pappa CA,Alexandrakis MG

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clarification of enlarged lymph nodes is a common issue in clinical routine. By now, open surgery with complete lymph node extirpation, followed by histopathology, is considered as standard. We investigated the value of fine needle aspiration (FNA) and core needle biopsy (CNB) when supporting the conventional morp...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Metzgeroth G,Schneider S,Walz C,Reiter S,Hofmann WK,Marx A,Hastka J

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately, 4-11 % of the patients with idiopathic venous thrombosis (VT) show protein C (PC) deficiency. The molecular pathology of PC deficiency was analyzed in 102 patients; 98 healthy controls were also studied to assess the association of various polymorphisms with reduced PC levels. PROC gene mutations were d...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Pai N,Ghosh K,Shetty S

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upper aerodigestive tract natural killer (NK)/T-cell lymphoma (UNKTL) is the most common type of extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type. Serum beta2-microglobulin (β2-M) was found to be a predictor in some subtypes of B-cell lymphoma. However, its prognostic significance in NK/T-cell lymphoma has never been explore...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Li ZM,Zhu YJ,Sun J,Xia Y,Huang JJ,Zou BY,Lin TY,Huang HQ,Jiang WQ

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stored red blood cells become deficient in nitric oxide that limits their ability to transfer oxygen to tissues that need it. The aims of this study are to assess the endogenous nitric oxide metabolites (NOx) and arginase I levels in transfusion-dependent β-thalassemic patients; to compare these levels in patients tra...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： El-Hady SB,Farahat MH,Atfy M,Elhady MA

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extramedullary (e) relapse in multiple myeloma(MM) has an adverse prognosis, but knowledge concerning biological features and preferred treatment is scarce. We screened the myeloma registry of our institution for eMM relapses and identified 24 cases among 357 patients (pts).Only 8% of eMM relapses occurred after initi...

journal_title：Annals of hematology

authors： Rasche L,Bernard C,Topp MS,Kapp M,Duell J,Wesemeier C,Haralambieva E,Maeder U,Einsele H,Knop S

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00