Vol. 94 No. 9 (2009): September, 2009

Eliane Maluf, Nelson Hamerschlak, Alexandre Biasi Cavalcanti, Álvaro Avezum Júnior, José Eluf-Neto, Roberto Passetto Falcão, Irene G. Lorand-Metze, Daniel Goldenberg, Cézar Leite Santana, Daniela de Oliveira Werneck Rodrigues, Leny Nascimento da Motta Passos, Luis Gastão Mange Rosenfeld, Marimilia Pitta, Sandra Loggetto, Andreza A. Feitosa Ribeiro, Elvira Deolinda Velloso, Andrea Tiemi Kondo, Erika Oliveira de Miranda Coelho, Maria Carolina Tostes Pintão, Hélio Moraes de Souza, José Rafael Borbolla, Ricardo Pasquini

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2008.002642

A co-operative evaluation of different methods of detecting BCR-ABL kinase domain mutations in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia on second-line dasatinib or nilotinib therapy after failure of imatinib (875 Online Views)

Thomas Ernst, Franz X. Gruber, Oliver Pelz-Ackermann, Jacqueline Maier, Markus Pfirrmann, Martin C. Müller, Ingvild Mikkola, Kimmo Porkka, Dietger Niederwieser, Andreas Hochhaus, Thoralf Lange

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2009.006981

T-cell abnormalities are present at high frequencies in patients with hypereosinophilic syndrome (1167 Online Views)

Grzegorz Helbig, Agata Wieczorkiewicz, Joanna Dziaczkowska-Suszek, Miroslaw Majewski, Slawomira Kyrcz-Krzemien

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2008.005447

Central nervous system involvement at first relapse in patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia treated with all-trans retinoic acid and anthracycline monochemotherapy without intrathecal prophylaxis (1615 Online Views)

Pau Montesinos, Joaquín Díaz-Mediavilla, Guillermo Debén, Virginia Prates, Mar Tormo, Vicente Rubio, Inmaculada Pérez, Isolda Fernández, Maricruz Viguria, Chelo Rayón, José González, Javier de la Serna, Jordi Esteve, Juan M. Bergua, Concha Rivas, Marcos González, Jose D. González, Silvia Negri, Salut Brunet, Bob Lowenberg, Miguel A. Sanz

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2009.007872

Dose-dense and high-dose chemotherapy plus rituximab with autologous stem cell transplantation for primary treatment of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma with a poor prognosis: a phase II multicenter study (766 Online Views)

Umberto Vitolo, Annalisa Chiappella, Emanuele Angelucci, Giuseppe Rossi, Anna Marina Liberati, Maria Giuseppina Cabras, Barbara Botto, Giovannino Ciccone, Gianluca Gaidano, Lorenzo Falchi, Roberto Freilone, Domenico Novero, Lorella Orsucci, Vincenzo Pavone, Enrico Pogliani, Delia Rota-Scalabrini, Flavia Salvi, Anna Tonso, Alessandra Tucci, Alessandro Levis

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2009.007005

Improved survival in chronic lymphocytic leukemia in the past decade: a population-based study including 11,179 patients diagnosed between 1973–2003 in Sweden (1031 Online Views)

Sigurdur Y. Kristinsson, Paul W. Dickman, Wyndham H. Wilson, Neil Caporaso, Magnus Björkholm, Ola Landgren

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2009.007849

Lenalidomide-induced upregulation of CD80 on tumor cells correlates with T-cell activation, the rapid onset of a cytokine release syndrome and leukemic cell clearance in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (717 Online Views)

Georg Aue, Ndegwa Njuguna, Xin Tian, Susan Soto, Thomas Hughes, Berengere Vire, Keyvan Keyvanfar, Federica Gibellini, Janet Valdez, Carol Boss, Leigh Samsel, J. Philip McCoy, Wyndham H. Wilson, Stefania Pittaluga, Adrian Wiestner

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2009.005835

A polymorphism in NFKB1 is associated with improved effect of interferon-α maintenance treatment of patients with multiple myeloma after high-dose treatment with stem cell support (527 Online Views)

Annette J. Vangsted, Tobias W. Klausen, Peter Gimsing, Niels F. Andersen, Niels Abildgaard, Henrik Gregersen, Ulla Vogel

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2008.004572

Is mobilized peripheral blood comparable with bone marrow as a source of hematopoietic stem cells for allogeneic transplantation from HLA-identical sibling donors? A case-control study (537 Online Views)

David Gallardo, Rafael de la Cámara, Jose B. Nieto, Ildefonso Espigado, Arturo Iriondo, Antonio Jiménez-Velasco, Carlos Vallejo, Carmen Martín, Dolores Caballero, Salut Brunet, David Serrano, Carlos Solano, Josep M. Ribera, Javier de la Rubia, Enric Carreras

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2009.006924

Improved outcome of patients older than 30 years receiving HLA-identical sibling hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for severe acquired aplastic anemia using fludarabine-based conditioning: a comparison with conventional conditioning regimen (1138 Online Views)

Sébastien Maury, Andrea Bacigalupo, Paolo Anderlini, Mahmoud Aljurf, Judith Marsh, Gérard Socié, Rosi Oneto, Jakob R. Passweg

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2009.006916

Two new β-thalassemia deletions compromising prenatal diagnosis in an Italian and a Turkish couple seeking prevention (493 Online Views)

Marion Phylipsen, Antonio Amato, Maria Pia Cappabianca, Jan Traeger-Synodinos, Emmanuel Kanavakis, Nazli Basak, Renzo Galanello, Teresa Tuveri, Giovanni Ivaldi, Cornelis L. Harteveld, Piero C. Giordano

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2009.007989

Association of hepcidin promoter c.-582 A>G variant and iron overload in thalassemia major (981 Online Views)

Marco Andreani, Francesca Clementina Radio, Manuela Testi, Carmelilia De Bernardo, Maria Troiano, Silvia Majore, Pierfrancesco Bertucci, Paola Polchi, Renata Rosati, Paola Grammatico

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2009.006270

Time-course analysis of serum hepcidin, iron and cytokines in a C282Y homozygous patient with Schnitzler’s syndrome treated with IL-1 receptor antagonist (449 Online Views)

Marcel van Deuren, Joyce J. C. Kroot, Dorine W. Swinkels

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2009.005975

Single nucleotide polymorphism genomic arrays analysis of t(8;21) acute myeloid leukemia cells (457 Online Views)

Tadayuki Akagi, Lee-Yung Shih, Seishi Ogawa, Joachim Gerss, Stephen R. Moore, Rhona Schreck, Norihiko Kawamata, Der-Cherng Liang, Masashi Sanada, Yasuhito Nannya, Stefan Deneberg, Vasilios Zachariadis, Ann Nordgren, Jee Hoon Song, Martin Dugas, Sören Lehmann, H. Phillip Koeffler

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2009.005744

The EML4-ALK transcript but not the fusion protein can be expressed in reactive and neoplastic lymphoid tissues (850 Online Views)

Gabriella Sozzi, Maria Paola Martelli, Davide Conte, Piergiorgio Modena, Valentina Pettirossi, Stefano A. Pileri, Brunangelo Falini

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2009.008045

Retroviral transfer of human CD20 as a suicide gene for adoptive T-cell therapy (1016 Online Views)

Marieke Griffioen, Esther H.M. van Egmond, Michel G.D. Kester, Roel Willemze, J.H. Frederik Falkenburg, Mirjam H.M. Heemskerk

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2008.001677

Identification of high oxygen affinity hemoglobin variants in the investigation of patients with erythrocytosis (1878 Online Views)

Melanie J. Percy, Nauman N. Butt, Gerard M. Crotty, Mark W. Drummond, Claire Harrison, Gail L. Jones, Matthew Turner, Jonathan Wallis, Mary Frances McMullin

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2009.008037