Issue 7/2014
Content (27 Articles)
Management of sepsis in neutropenic patients: 2014 updated guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Working Party of the German Society of Hematology and Medical Oncology (AGIHO)
Olaf Penack, Carolin Becker, Dieter Buchheidt, Maximilian Christopeit, Michael Kiehl, Marie von Lilienfeld-Toal, Marcus Hentrich, Marc Reinwald, Hans Salwender, Enrico Schalk, Martin Schmidt-Hieber, Thomas Weber, Helmut Ostermann
Relapse assessment following allogeneic SCT in patients with MDS and AML
Maximilian Christopeit, Nicolaus Kröger, Torsten Haferlach, Ulrike Bacher
G-CSF induces the release of the soluble form of LR11, a regulator of myeloid cell mobilization in bone marrow
Naomi Shimizu, Chiaki Nakaseko, Meizi Jiang, Keigo Nishii, Koutaro Yokote, Tohru Iseki, Morihiro Higashi, Junichi Tamaru, Wolfgang Johann Schneider, Hideaki Bujo
Influence of the βs haplotype and α-thalassemia on stroke development in a Brazilian population with sickle cell anaemia
Igor F. Domingos, Diego A. Falcão, Betania L. Hatzlhofer, Anderson F. Cunha, Magnun N. Santos, Dulcinéia M. Albuquerque, Kleber Y. Fertrin, Fernando F. Costa, Renata C. Azevedo, Cíntia G. Machado, Aderson S. Araújo, Antonio R. Lucena-Araujo, Marcos A. Bezerra
The 6-min walk test: an independent correlate of elevated tricuspid regurgitant jet velocity in children and young adult sickle cell patients
Hala Agha, Mona El Tagui, Mona El Ghamrawy, Marwa Abdel Hady
Elevated tricuspid regurgitant jet velocity in subgroups of thalassemia patients: insight into pathophysiology and the effect of splenectomy
Sylvia T. Singer, Frans Kuypers, Jeffery Fineman, Ginny Gildengorin, Sandra Larkin, Nancy Sweeters, Howard Rosenfeld, Gregory Kurio, Annie Higa, Michael Jeng, James Huang, Elliott P. Vichinsky
Predictive role of minimal residual disease and log clearance in acute myeloid leukemia: a comparison between multiparameter flow cytometry and Wilm’s tumor 1 levels
Giovanni Rossi, Maria Marta Minervini, Lorella Melillo, Francesco di Nardo, Chiara de Waure, Potito Rosario Scalzulli, Gianni Perla, Daniela Valente, Nicola Sinisi, Nicola Cascavilla
Application of the optimized CO-rebreathing method for determination of hemoglobin mass in patients with polycythemia vera
C. Ahlgrim, Y. O. Schumacher, N. Wrobel, C. F. Waller, T. Pottgiesser
Older patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (≥65 years) profit more from higher imatinib doses than younger patients: a subanalysis of the randomized CML-Study IV
Ulrike Proetel, Nadine Pletsch, Michael Lauseker, Martin C. Müller, Benjamin Hanfstein, Stefan W. Krause, Lida Kalmanti, Annette Schreiber, Dominik Heim, Gabriela M. Baerlocher, Wolf-Karsten Hofmann, Elisabeth Lange, Hermann Einsele, Martin Wernli, Stephan Kremers, Rudolf Schlag, Lothar Müller, Mathias Hänel, Hartmut Link, Bernd Hertenstein, Markus Pfirrmann, Andreas Hochhaus, Joerg Hasford, Rüdiger Hehlmann, Susanne Saußele
Inhibitor of differentiation 1 is a candidate prognostic marker in multicentric Castleman’s disease
Chao Liu, Yi Ran Liu, Jian Chen, Shao Yang Zhuo, Martin Dalin, Shao Hua Liu, Feng Cai Wei
Serum IgA level, monocyte count, and international prognostic index are independently associated with overall survival in patients with HTLV-I-negative nodal peripheral T cell lymphoma
Aiko Kato, Yukihiro Imai, Kazunari Aoki, Sumie Tabata, Akiko Matsushita, Hisako Hashimoto, Takayuki Takahashi, Takayuki Ishikawa
Limited clinical benefit for surveillance PET-CT scanning in patients with histologically transformed lymphoma in complete metabolic remission following primary therapy
Chan Y. Cheah, Michael Dickinson, Michael S. Hofman, Anupkumar George, David S. Ritchie, H. Miles Prince, David Westerman, Simon J. Harrison, Kate Burbury, Max Wolf, Henry Januszewicz, Kirsten E. Herbert, Dennis A. Carney, Constantine Tam, John F. Seymour
Serum immunoglobulin free light chain and heavy/light chain measurements in POEMS syndrome
Chen Wang, Wei Su, Wei Zhang, Qian Di, Ming-Hui Duan, Wei Ji, Xin-Xin Cao, Dao-Bin Zhou, Jian Li
The lymphoma-like polychemotherapy regimen “Dexa-BEAM” in advanced and extramedullary multiple myeloma
Leo Rasche, Susanne Strifler, Johannes Duell, Andreas Rosenwald, Andreas Buck, Uwe Maeder, Hermann Einsele, Stefan Knop
Favorable outcomes of tacrolimus compared with cyclosporine A for GVHD prophylaxis in HSCT for standard-risk hematological diseases
Ryo Nasu, Yasuhito Nannya, Akihito Shinohara, Motoshi Ichikawa, Mineo Kurokawa
Palonosetron versus first-generation 5-hydroxytryptamine type 3 receptor antagonists for emesis prophylaxis in patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Cheng-Wei Chou, Yeh-Ku Chen, Yuan-Bin Yu, Kuang-Hsi Chang, Wen-Li Hwang, Chieh-Lin Jerry Teng
Successful management of acute myeloid leukemia transformed from myelodysplastic syndromes in an elderly patient aged over 80 years old by ultralow dose decitabine combined with amifostine and autologous CIK cells
Bo Yang, Hai-tao Wang, Li-li Cai, Yu Zhao, Xiao-hua Chi, Hong-li Zhu, Hai-hong Ran, Yang Yang, Rui-li Yu, Song-wei Li, Xue-chun Lu
Plasma cell myeloma with mature lymphoproliferative disease-like morphology: an unusual case
Evdoxia Gounari, Triantafyllia Koletsa, Ioannis Kostopoulos, Georgia Kaiafa, Vasileios Perifanis, Vasiliki Tsavdaridou
Social correlates of clotting disorders in adults and the very old: UK Understanding Society cohort, 2009–2010
Ivy Shiue
New perspectives of iron deficiency as a risk factor for ischemic stroke
Lenise Jihe Kim, Fernando Morgadinho Coelho, Sergio Tufik, Monica Levy Andersen
Sustained remission and reversal of end-organ dysfunction in a patient with anaplastic myeloma
Mridul Agrawal, Jennifer Kanakry, Christina A. Arnold, Daniel L. Suzman, Luckson Mathieu, Yvette L. Kasamon, Douglas E. Gladstone, Richard F. Ambinder, Nilanjan Ghosh
Large granular lymphocytic leukemia of gamma–delta T cells: cytogenetics and fluorescence in situ hybridization study
Edmond S. K. Ma, Thomas S. K. Wan, Joyce C. W. Chan
A rare IgM multiple myeloma with aberrant PAX5 expression mimicking lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma
Z. Xu, R. Van Der Jagt, C. Faught, M. Beaulieu Bergeron
Pleural decortication of a marginal zone lymphoma
Thomas Melchardt, Lukas Weiss, Konrad Namberger, Ingrid Pretsch, Jörg Hutter, Lukas Rettenbacher, Daniel Neureiter, Marlene Troch, Richard Greil, Alexander Egle
Clonal multicentric Castleman’s disease with increased free kappa light chains in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus
Matthijs Oyaert, Elke Boone, Liesbeth De Ceuninck, Els Moreau, Jo Van Dorpe, Hilde Vanpoucke, Dries Deeren
Intravascular large B cell lymphoma presenting as cholecystitis: diagnostic challenges persist
Siddhartha Yadav, Mohammad Muhsin Chisti, Lewis Rosenbaum, Michael A Barnes
Long-term follow up of frontline therapy with fludarabine and cyclophosphamide in chronic lymphocytic leukemia: impact of biological parameters on clinical outcome
Laura De Padua, Luca Laurenti, Paolo Falcucci, Giovanni D’arena, Barbara Vannata, Idanna Innocenti, Francesco Autore, Nicola Piccirillo, Tommaso Za, Sara Marietti, Dimitar G Efremov, Simona Sica