abstract：:The occurrence of adenopathy in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome-associated extramedullary myeloid cell tumors has rarely been reported. We describe a 7-year-old girl with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia who showed the novel chromosomal abnormality t(9;12)(p22;q24.1) and who developed severe adenopathy of the c...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Imamura T,Matsuo S,Yoshihara T,Chiyonobu T,Mori K,Ishida H,Nishimura Y,Kasubuchi Y,Naya M,Morimoto A,Hibi S,Imashuku S

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imatinib mesylate and rituximab are molecularly targeted drugs against the BCR-ABL fusion protein and the CD20 antigen, respectively. Although these drugs have excellent anticancer effects, a major concern is drug resistance. We have investigated the case of a patient with Philadelphia chromosome-positive and CD20+ ac...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Hato T,Yamanouchi J,Tamura T,Hojo N,Niiya Y,Kohno M,Bando S,Yakushijin Y,Takada K,Sakai I,Yasukawa M,Fujita S

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imatinib mesylate binds to the inactive conformation of BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase, suppressing the Philadelphia chromosome-positive clone in chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). Clinical studies of imatinib have yielded impressive results in the treatment of all phases of CML. With the higher rates of complete cytogeneti...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Borthakur G,Cortes JE

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK)/T-cell lymphoma associated with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in a patient infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is very rare. The authors encountered a case of NK/T-cell lymphoma in a 36-year-old man who presented with an ulcerative mass on both tonsils. During assessment, HIV positivity was...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Oh SC,Choi CW,Kim BS,Shin SW,Kim YH,Lee JS,Kim MJ,Jung WY,Kim HK,Yeom BW,Kim IS,Kim JS

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemophagocytic syndrome (HPS) is a clinicopathological reflection of uncontrolled activation of macrophages. To our knowledge, only a few cases of tuberculosis-associated HPS in hemodialysis have been reported in the English literature. We report a case of tuberculosis-associated HPS during hemodialysis. Bone marrow a...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Chien CC,Chiou TJ,Lee MY,Hsiao LT,Kwang WK

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent infection with human parvovirus B19 (B19) is primarily associated with chronic bone marrow failure in immunocompromised patients, but occasionally this organism may also affect immunocompetent hosts. B19 is also suggested as a causative agent of organ failure during bone marrow transplantation (BMT). We her...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Goto H,Ishida A,Fujii H,Kuroki F,Takahashi H,Ikuta K,Kai S,Yokota S

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe 3 unrelated Japanese patients with familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) due to a compound heterozygous E148Q/M694I mutation in the MEFV gene. The first patient is a 38-year-old man who also has chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). Because genomic DNA analysis of the patient's nail revealed the E148Q/M694I mut...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Kotone-Miyahara Y,Takaori-Kondo A,Fukunaga K,Goto M,Hayashino Y,Miki M,Takayama H,Sasada M,Uchiyama T

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe fungal infections remain a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in neutropenic patients undergoing dose-intensive chemotherapy for malignant diseases. Chronic disseminated candidiasis (CDC) is a life-threatening complication in neutropenic patients because of the lack of responsive hematopoietic precurs...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Hübel K,Chemnitz J,Brochhagen HG,Cornely OA

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunosuppression (IS) therapy with antilymphocyte globulin (ALG) is currently the treatment of choice for patients with aplastic anemia who do not have histocompatible sibling donors or who are not candidates for allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Thirty-eight patients with aplastic anemia who received ALG-based...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Feng YH,Yen CJ,Huang WT,Su WC,Chen TY,Tsao CJ

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shwachman-Diamond syndrome (SDS) is a rare congenital disorder featuring exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, growth retardation, and bone marrow dysfunction. Reports suggest that nearly 25% of all cases are complicated with leukemia. Although stem cell transplantation is the sole option for these patients, successful r...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Mitsui T,Kawakami T,Sendo D,Katsuura M,Shimizu Y,Hayasaka K

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was performed to examine whether the expression of CD64 Fc gamma receptor type I (FcgammaRI) on both neutrophils and monocytes can be modulated by multiple daily administrations of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) to patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in neutropenia caused by CHOP (cyc...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Kakinoki Y,Kubota H,Yamamoto Y

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current cure rate of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia has reached 80% in many industrialized countries, but in developing countries the rate is often less than 10%. To advance the cure rate, investigators have formed several parallel initiatives in both industrialized and developing countries through interna...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Pui CH,Ribeiro RC

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed autologous CD34+ stem cell transplantation in 3 patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) refractory to conventional treatment. All patients had systemic type JRA. In case 1 (a 3-year-old boy), purified CD34+ cells from bone marrow were transplanted after a preconditioning regimen consisting of cy...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Kishimoto T,Hamazaki T,Yasui M,Sasabe M,Okamura T,Sakata N,Inoue M,Yagi K,Kawa K

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a 6-year-old girl and her mother with dominant beta-thalassemia due to hemoglobin Hradec Kralove (Hb HK). Both patients presented microcytic anemia, jaundice, splenomegaly, cholelithiasis, and recurrent hemolytic bouts. Osmotic resistance tests using saline and coiled planet centrifugation revealed the inc...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Ohga S,Nomura A,Takada H,Kato J,Ideguchi H,Hattori Y,Suda M,Suita S,Hara T

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the cytotoxicity of N-(4-hydroxyphenyl)retinamide (4-HPR) was studied with use of the B-precursor lymphoblastic leukemia cell line YCUB-2. The increase in intracellular ROS measured with 2'-7'-dichlorodihydrofluorescein diacetate after 3 hours' incubation was 3.7-fold with ...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Goto H,Takahashi H,Fujii H,Ikuta K,Yokota S

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with myeloid/natural killer (NK) cell precursor acute leukemia who was also homozygous for protein C deficiency was treated and showed a complete remission while he simultaneously received low molecular weight heparin. He presented with fever spikes, lymphadenopathy, and a bulky tumor of the anterior mediast...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Shimamoto T,Nakajima A,Katagiri T,Ito Y,Ohyashiki K

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is a highly heterogeneous disease with an unpredictable pattern. CVID appears to have an immunologic and clinical phenotype similar to some hereditary humoral immunodeficiencies, including X-linked lymphoproliferative disease (XLP). The differential diagnosis of CVID and XLP is ...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Aghamohammadi A,Kanegane H,Moein M,Farhoudi A,Pourpak Z,Movahedi M,Gharagozlou M,Zargar AA,Miyawaki T

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD8+ cytotoxic T-lymphocytes are major effector cells involved in immunologically specific tumor destruction in vivo, and CD4+ T-cells are essential for controlling this CD8+ T-cell-dependent tumor eradication. The presence of CD4+ T-cells with distinct functional roles has been recognized. The further understanding o...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Shiku H

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pilot phase I/II study was conducted as a single-institute trial for evaluation of the feasibility and efficacy of a new salvage chemotherapy, CHASE, for patients with refractory or relapsed lymphoma . The CHASE regimen, consisting of cyclophosphamide, cytosine arabinoside, etoposide, and dexamethasone, was administ...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Ogura M,Kagami Y,Taji H,Suzuki R,Miura K,Takeuchi T,Morishima Y

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice lack functional T- and B-cells and readily accept human xenografts, including hematopoietic malignancies. Accordingly, SCID mice have been used to study the growth and behavior of lymphoid tumors in vivo. The SCID mouse models of disease mimic human diseases and have provide...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Imada K

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some patients with hairy cell leukemia (HCL) manifest pancytopenia and bone marrow hypoplasia without an apparent increase in atypical cells, so their disease resembles severe aplastic anemia at onset. We treated 2 HCL patients, who were initially diagnosed with aplastic anemia, with antithymocyte globulin (ATG) in co...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Sugimori C,Kaito K,Nakao S

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hairy cell leukemia (HCL) is a rare type of chronic B-cell leukemia characterized by the hairy morphology of the leukemia cells. All of 5 HCL samples and an HCL-derived cell line, BNBH-I, showed serrated edges and hairlike projections in May-Grünwald Giemsa stain and protruding actin spikes and lamellipodia in phalloi...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Zhang X,Machii T,Matsumura I,Ezoe S,Kawasaki A,Tanaka H,Ueda S,Sugahara H,Shibayama H,Mizuki M,Kanakura Y

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the relationship between treatment with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) and the development of chromosomal abnormalities and clonal evolution in adult aplastic anemia (AA) patients, we performed a prospective multicenter study. Of the 104 registered patients, 91 were found by the central rev...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Bessho M,Hotta T,Ohyashiki K,Takahashi T,Mizoguchi H,Asano S,Ikeda Y,Sakurai M,Tojo A,Kizaki M,Iwanaga M,Tomonaga M,Hirashima K

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe an interesting case of a patient with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) who developed sustained severe bone marrow aplasia after 2 years and 11 months of interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha) therapy but demonstrated recovery of normal hematopoiesis when treated with immunosuppressive therapy with granulocyte-colo...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Hishida A,Yamamoto K,Kato C,Yokozawa T,Emi N,Tanimoto M,Saito H

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B-cell diseases are classified on the basis of the normal differentiation stages. We report here a case of a patient with a long history of leukocytosis, splenomegaly without lymphadenopathy, and hyperviscosity symptoms. Clinically, the patient's diagnosis was leukemic Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia. Chromosomal analys...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Sekikawa T,Takahara S,Kawano T,Nakada S,Ito K,Iwase S,Yamada H,Kobayashi M,Horiguchi-Yamada J

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) conditions appear to be the best possible candidates for a gene therapy approach. Transgene expression by lymphocyte precursors should confer to these cells a selective growth advantage that gives rise to long-lived T-lymphocytes. This rationale was used as a basis for a clinica...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Hacein-Bey-Abina S,Fischer A,Cavazzana-Calvo M

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty patients with hematologic diseases received allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplants (HSCT) from related donors other than genotypically HLA-matched siblings. Their outcomes were compared with those of 102 patients who had received HSCT from genotypically HLA-matched siblings. All donors in the study grou...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Tomonari A,Iseki T,Ooi J,Takahashi S,Ishii K,Takahashi T,Shindo M,Nagamura F,Uchimaru K,Nagayama H,Shirafuji N,Tojo A,Tani K,Asano S

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferritin, composed of H-subunits and L-subunits, plays important roles in iron storage and in the control of intracellular iron distribution. Synthesis of both subunits is controlled by common cytoplasmic proteins, iron regulatory proteins (IRP-1 and IRP-2) that bind to the iron-responsive element (IRE) in the 5'-untr...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Kato J,Niitsu Y

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet activation, impairment of fibrinolysis, activation of the coagulation pathway, and dyslipidemia are important factors in the pathogenesis and progression of ischemic heart disease, and patients generally need to use an antiplatelet agent. Lipid-lowering cerivastatin, a novel 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzym...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Ural AU,Yilmaz MI,Avcu F,Yalcin A

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allogeneic stem cell transplantation is an established treatment modality for a variety of hematologic malignancies. Unfortunately it carries a high risk of complications and toxicities related to the intensive preparative regimen which is traditionally used for pre-transplant myeloablation and the graft versus host d...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Giralt S

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been important progress in the treatment of Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) in patients under 60 years. A remission rate of 80% can be achieved by several schedules, and 40-45% of patients diagnosed will survive. It may still be possible to improve remission induction treatment eg by intensifying the Ara-C dos...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Newland A

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transplants for patients lacking an HLA identical sibling donor have become possible, and thank to the establishment of large registries of HLA typed volunteers. Japan Marrow Donor Program (JMDP) now stands at about 152,339 volunteer donors, and have provided 4,013 marrows nationally and internationally. Advancements ...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Okamoto S

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is a common and often serious complication of heparin therapy [1,2]. Although the reduction in platelet levels associated with HIT is usually not severe, about 10% of patients experience arterial and/or venous thromboses (HITT), which can be incapacitating or fatal [3]. Recent wo...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Lee SH,Liu CY,PaoloVisentin G

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocyte (neutrophil) antibodies can cause autoimmune neutropenia, drug-induced neutropenia, immune neutropenia after bone marrow transplantation, neonatal immune neutropenia, refractoriness to granulocyte transfusions as well as febrile and pulmonary transfusion reactions. In the last decade, considerable progress...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Bux J

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiphospholipid antibodies are autoantibodies directed against anionic phospholipids or protein-phospholipid complexes measured in solid-phase immunoassays such as anticardiolipin (aCL) antibody or detected in phospholipid-dependent clotting tests as lupus anticoagulant (LA). The term "antiphospholipid syndrome (APS)...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Chi HS

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) is a neoplastc disease of peripheral T-lymphocytes/NK cells, including PTCL unspecified, anaplastic large T-cell lymphoma (ALCL), IBL-like T-cell lymphoma (AILD), intestinal T-cell lymphoma (ITCL) and adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL). The incidence of PTCL is relatively uncommon a...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Matsuoka M

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow failure has been regarded as one of the triad of clinical manifestations of paroxysmal noctumal hemoglobinuria (PNH), and PNH in turn has been described as a late clonal disease evolving in patients recovering from aplastic anemia. Better understanding of the pathophysiology of both diseases and improved t...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Young NS,Maciejewski JP,Sloand E,Chen G,Zeng W,Risitano A,Miyazato A

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) represent a group of potentially acute myeloid leukemic disorders. There exists a delicate balance between increased apoptosis and proliferation of the leukemic hematopoietic stem cell that permits many patients to survive for years. When the balance shifts towards proliferation AML...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Bennett JM,Kouides PA,Forman SJ

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Wilms tumor gene WT1 is expressed in leukemias and various kinds of solid tumors, including lung and breast cancer, and exerts an oncogenic function in these malignancies, suggesting that WT1 protein is a novel, overexpressed tumor antigen. The WT1 protein, in fact, is an attractive tumor rejection antigen in anim...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Sugiyama H

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic atrial fibrillation (AF) has often been associated with systemic embolization, and patients with mitral stenosis (MS) have the highest thromboembolic risk. Increased risk of thromboembolism could be in part due to impaired fibrinolytic function. Global fibrinolytic capacity (GFC) is an innovative technique for...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Atalar E,Ozmen F,Haznedaroğlu I,Ozer N,Aksöyek S,Ovünç K,Nazli N,Kirazli S,Kes S

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00