Anemia is a strong predictor of mortality and poor quality of life among persons with either renal impairment or HIV infection. In this study, we investigated the prevalence of anemia and its association with ...
Authors: Temesgen Fiseha, Zemenu Tamir, Abdurahaman Seid and Wondmagegn Demsiss
In Madagascar, the last study on sickle cell disease (SCD) was done in the early 1980s. The country is known as endemic for malaria and respiratory infections. The main objective of this study was to estimate ...
Authors: Muriel N. Maeder, Henintsoa M. Rabezanahary, Norosoa J. Zafindraibe, Martin Raoelina Randriatiana, Tahinamandranto Rasamoelina, Andry T. Rakotoarivo, Philippe Vanhems, Jonathan Hoffmann, Thomas Bénet, Mala Rakoto Andrianarivelo and Olivat A. Rakoto-Alson
Anaemia is one of the main factors in the deferral (disqualification) of blood donors following haematological screening. There is paucity of data on the prevalence of anaemia in blood donors in Sub-Saharan Af...
Authors: Tebit Emmanuel Kwenti and Tayong Dizzle Bita Kwenti
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in adults is often secundary to an infection or a neoplasm. In this last case, T cell lymphomas are the most frequent causes. Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis secundary to ...
Authors: El Mehdi Mahtat, Maryem Zine, Mohamed Allaoui, Malika Kerbout, Nezha Messaoudi, Kamal Doghmi and Mohamed Mikdame
Transfusion-transmitted infections threaten the safety of patients requiring blood transfusion, which in turn imposes serious challenges for the availability of safe blood products that are still affordable in...
Authors: Aisha Arshad, Munira Borhany, Nida Anwar, Imran Naseer, Rehan Ansari, Samson Boota, Naveena Fatima, Mustansir Zaidi and Tahir Shamsi
When availability and/or affordability of anti-hemophilic factor concentrates are limited, optimal prophylaxis regimens in severe hemophilia A (HA) remain to be determined. In selected situations, low-dose dai...
Authors: Terry Mizrahi, Jean St-Louis, Nancy L. Young, Francine Ménard, Nichan Zourikian, Evemie Dubé and Georges E. Rivard
Since the discovery of specific histocompatibility, literature has associated genes involved in the immune response, like the Human Leucocyte Antigen (HLA), with a better prognosis in transplantation. However,...
Authors: Daniele Kazue Sugioka, Carlos Eduardo Ibaldo Gonçalves and Maria da Graça Bicalho
Reasons for the variation in response of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) to anticoagulation treatment are not known. Some patients develop complications such as post-thrombotic syndrome or recurrent DVT but others ...
Although the demand for blood supply has progressively increased in developing countries, evidences indicate that there is a major shortage of blood and blood products in these countries, particularly in Ethio...
Authors: Yenework Acham Jemberu, Ahmed Esmael and Kedir Y. Ahmed
Anticoagulant therapy is prescribed for millions of patients worldwide for the prevention and treatment of both arterial and venous thrombosis. Historically, only vitamin K antagonists have been available for ...
Authors: Vivian Auyeung, Jignesh P. Patel, John K. Abdou, Bipin Vadher, Lynda Bonner, Alison Brown, Lara N. Roberts, Raj K. Patel and Roopen Arya
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is endemic in non-Western countries. Due to migration, the prevalence of SCD in the Netherlands has increased. Adherence to medical treatment is recognized as a major problem area. Th...
Authors: Marlous J. Madderom, Jessica Heijdra, Elisabeth M. W. J. Utens, Suzanne Polinder, Anita W. Rijneveld and Marjon H. Cnossen
Iron deficiency anemia is highly prevalent in patients with chronic kidney disease and is often treated with intravenous iron. There are few trials directly comparing the safety and efficacy of different intra...
Authors: William E. Strauss, Naomi V. Dahl, Zhu Li, Gloria Lau and Lee F. Allen
Chronic Epstein Barr virus (EBV) infection in an immunocompetent host has been described however it is not a common entity. It has been linked to many lymphoproliferative disorders and achieves such via many m...
Authors: Nawid M. Sarwari, Joseph D. Khoury and Cristhiam M. Rojas Hernandez
Bone marrow examination may be required to discriminate causes of thrombocytopenia as hypoproductive or hyperdestructive. However, this procedure is invasive and time consuming. This study assessed the diagnos...
Authors: Mikias Negash, Aster Tsegaye and Amha G/Medhin
Survival analysis is commonly used to determine the treatment effect among acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients who undergo allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT) or other treatments. The aim o...
Authors: Chatree Chai-Adisaksopha, Alfonso Iorio, Christopher Hillis, Wendy Lim and Mark Crowther
Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV are among the risk factors for deep vein thrombosis (DVT). There are several challenges in the management of DVT patients with TB-HIV co-infection including drug-drug interactions and...
Authors: C Sekaggya, D Nalwanga, A Von Braun, R Nakijoba, A Kambugu, J Fehr, M Lamorde and B Castelnuovo
A high prevalence of neutropenia has been reported in several ethnic groups amongst whom many healthy individuals with low neutrophil counts undergo unnecessary investigations. This study aims to ascertain the...
Authors: Srdjan Denic, Hassib Narchi, Lolowa A. Al Mekaini, Suleiman Al-Hammadi, Omar N. Al Jabri and Abdul-Kader Souid
Multiple myeloma is a plasma cell tumour with an annual incidence in the UK of approximately 40–50 per million i.e. about 4500 new cases per annum. The triple combination cyclophosphamide, bortezomib (Velcade®...
Authors: Sarah Brown, Samantha Hinsley, Mónica Ballesteros, Sue Bourne, Paul McGarry, Debbie Sherratt, Louise Flanagan, Walter Gregory, Jamie Cavenagh, Roger Owen, Cathy Williams, Martin Kaiser, Eric Low and Kwee Yong
This study was undertaken to explore the longitudinal patterns of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among youth and young adults with Hemophilia A (HA) over a 3-year period. This report presents the basel...
Authors: J. St-Louis, D. J. Urajnik, F. Ménard, S. Cloutier, R. J. Klaassen, B. Ritchie, G. E. Rivard, M. Warner, V. Blanchette and N. L. Young
CC-486 is an oral formulation of the epigenetic modifier azacitidine. In an expanded phase 1 trial, CC-486 demonstrated clinical and biological activity in patients with International Prognostic Scoring System...
Authors: Guillermo Garcia-Manero, Antonio Almeida, Aristoteles Giagounidis, Uwe Platzbecker, Regina Garcia, Maria Teresa Voso, Stephen R. Larsen, David Valcarcel, Lewis R. Silverman, Barry Skikne and Valeria Santini
Langerhans cells (LC) are bone marrow-derived cells in the skin. The LC donor/recipient chimerism is assumed to influence the incidence and severity of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) after hematopoietic stem...
Authors: Sabrina Peters, Christian Junghanss, Anne Knueppel, Hugo Murua Escobar, Catrin Roolf, Gudrun Knuebel, Anett Sekora, Iris Lindner, Ludwig Jonas, Mathias Freund and Sandra Lange
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a mature B-cell neoplasm characterized by the expansion of CD5-positive lymphocytes in peripheral blood. While CLL is the most common type of leukemia in Western populatio...
Fibrin provides a temporary matrix at the site of vascular injury. The aims of the present work were (1) to follow fibrin formation and lysis onto the surface of human dermal microvascular endothelial cells (H...
Authors: O. Castillo, H. Rojas, Z. Domínguez, E. Anglés-Cano and R. Marchi
At the time of diagnosis, Multiple Myeloma is commonly associated with renal impairment. Renal tubular acidosis without overt renal insufficiency is an uncommon disease presentation of myeloma. Among tubular a...
Intravenous iron therapy is a treatment option for iron deficient patients who are intolerant to oral iron or where oral iron is ineffective, but with possible adverse effects. Currently, prospective studies c...
Authors: Martha L. Louzada, Cyrus C. Hsia, Fatimah Al-Ani, Fiona Ralley, Anargyros Xenocostas, Janet Martin, Sarah E. Connelly, Ian H. Chin-Yee, Leonard Minuk and Alejandro Lazo-Langner
In patients hospitalized over a 4 year period for pulmonary embolism (PE), we assessed relationships of testosterone (TT) and estrogen therapy (ET) anteceding PE in patients found to have familial-acquired thr...
Authors: Marloe Prince, Charles J. Glueck, Parth Shah, Ashwin Kumar, Michael Goldenberg, Matan Rothschild, Nasim Motayar, Vybhav Jetty, Kevin Lee and Ping Wang
Mammalian erythropoiesis can be divided into two distinct types, primitive and definitive, in which new cells are derived from the yolk sac and hematopoietic stem cells, respectively. Primitive erythropoiesis ...
Active and passive theories have been advanced to explain splenomegaly and cytopenias in liver disease. Dameshek proposed active downregulation of hematopoiesis. Doan proposed passive trapping of blood compone...
Authors: John M. Gemery, Andrew R. Forauer, Anne M. Silas and Eric K. Hoffer
Patients receiving anticoagulant drugs must be carefully screened for drug-related problems, as such medications, including warfarin have narrow therapeutic ranges and a high potential for complications. Thus,...
Authors: Fekede Bekele Daba, Fisihatsion Tadesse and Ephrem Engidawork
Tuberculosis (TB) treatment may present significant hematological disorder and some anti-TB drugs also have serious side effects. Although many other diseases may be reflected by the blood and its constituents...
Authors: Eyuel Kassa, Bamlaku Enawgaw, Aschalew Gelaw and Baye Gelaw
High levels of fetal haemoglobin (HbF) decrease sickle cell anaemia (SCA) severity and leads to improved survival. According to in vivo and in vitro studies, butyrate increases HbF production. Its utilization ...
Authors: Lamis Kaddam, Imad FdleAlmula, Omer Ali Eisawi, Haydar Awad Abdelrazig, Mustafa Elnimeiri, Florian Lang and Amal M. Saeed
Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) are now standard of care for the management of thromboembolic risk. A prevalent issue of concern is how to manage direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC)-associated bleeding for whi...
Authors: Michelle Sholzberg, Katerina Pavenski, Nadine Shehata, Christine Cserti-Gazdewich and Yulia Lin
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is associated with erythrocyte sensitivity to oxidative damage and hemolytic crises. In β-thalassemia major, where hemoglobin instability imposes oxidative s...
Idiopathic thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a rare hematological emergency characterized by the pentad of microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, neurological symptoms, renal injury, a...
Authors: Kara Walter, Jennifer Vaughn and Daniel Martin
Patients who require transfusion as part of their clinical management have the right to expect sufficient blood to be available to meet their needs and to receive the safest blood possible. Donor deferrals (di...
Authors: Samuel Antwi-Baffour, David Kwasie Annor, Jonathan Kofi Adjei, Ransford Kyeremeh, George Kpentey and Foster Kyei
Numerical methods have recently allowed quantitative interpretation of in vivo murine platelet consumption data in terms of values for the random destruction rate constant (RD), intrinsic lifespan (LS), and th...
Anaemia is a major public health problem in developing countries, contributing significantly to morbidity and mortality amongst children under-five years of age. About 43 % of under-fives are anaemic worldwide...
Authors: Rehema H. Simbauranga, Erasmus Kamugisha, Adolfine Hokororo, Benson R. Kidenya and Julie Makani
Anemia is the most common hematological abnormalities in HIV patients and it is a wide spread public health problem. The World Health Organization estimates that over 2 billion people are anemic worldwide with...
Each year in the UK, ≈3000 children undergo major cardiac surgery requiring cardiopulmonary bypass. Approximately 40 % of these experience excessive bleeding necessitating red cell transfusion or treatment wit...
Authors: Wendy Underwood, Chris A. Rogers, Zoe Plummer, Barnaby C Reeves, Massimo Caputo, Peter Murphy, Karen Sheehan, Jessica Harris, Lucy Culliford and Andrew Mumford
Ruxolitinib, a novel inhibitor of Janus kinases 1 and 2, was recently approved for the treatment of myelofibrosis but, recently, attention has been drawn to potential side effects and especially opportunistic ...
Authors: Róbert Pálmason, Ola Lindén and Johan Richter
Isolation of bone marrow cells, including hematopoietic stem cells, is a commonly used technique in both the research and clinical settings. A quantitative and qualitative assessment of cell populations isolat...
Authors: Maya M. Mahajan, Betty Cheng, Ashley I. Beyer, Usha S. Mulvaney, Matt B. Wilkinson, Marina E. Fomin and Marcus O. Muench
Valacyclovir has been used for prophylaxis against cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). We investigated the efficacy and safety of high-dose Valacyclovir as pre...
Authors: Shin-Yeu Ong, Ha-Thi-Thu Truong, Colin Phipps Diong, Yeh-Ching Linn, Aloysius Yew-Leng Ho, Yeow-Tee Goh and William Ying-Khee Hwang
Heterotaxy is a relatively uncommon congenital anomaly that is usually diagnosed incidentally on imaging studies in adults. We present an unusual case of venous thromboembolism in a 26 year old pregnant female...
Authors: Narendranath Epperla, Erika Peterson and Patrick Foy
Ethiopia is one of the most seriously HIV affected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Anemia is a known predictor of disease progression and death among HIV infected patients. In this study, we investigated the ...
Although prophylaxis is a standard of care for young children in developed countries, known to reduce the severity of hemophilic arthropathy, older adults with existing arthropathy have not traditionally used ...
Authors: Shannon C Jackson, Ming Yang, Leonard Minuk, Michelle Sholzberg, Jean St-Louis, Alfonso Iorio, Robert Card and Man-Chiu Poon
Paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria is caused by a biphasic IgG autoantibody that triggers complement-mediated intravascular hemolysis. Paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria has not previously been reported to occur in as...
Authors: Andrea O Akpoguma, Thomas L Carlisle and Steven R Lentz
Severe congenital neutropenia (SCN) is an immunodeficiency disease characterized low blood neutrophil counts, early bacterial infections, and risk of leukaemia development. Heterozygous mutations in the ELANE gen...
Authors: Quang Van Vu, Taizo Wada, Tham Thi Tran, Duc Ngoc Ngo, Thuc Van Dinh, Cuong Hung Nguyen, Huong Thi Minh Le, Akihiro Yachie and Sang Ngoc Nguyen
Hemophilia A (HA) is an X-linked inherited bleeding disorder, resulting from a qualitative or quantitative deficiency of clotting factor VIII (FVIII). Antibodies against FVIII, also called inhibitors, block th...
Authors: Amanda CO Silveira, Marcio AP Santana, Isabella G Ribeiro, Daniel G Chaves and Olindo A Martins-Filho
