June, 2012
No. 97 (6)

Editorials

Review Articles

Articles

Deferasirox for up to 3 years leads to continued improvement of myocardial T2* in patients with β-thalassemia major (1078 Online Views)

Dudley J. Pennell, John B. Porter, Maria Domenica Cappellini, Lee Lee Chan, Amal El-Beshlawy, Yesim Aydinok, Hishamshah Ibrahim, Chi-Kong Li, Vip Viprakasit, Mohsen S. Elalfy, Antonis Kattamis, Gillian Smith, Dany Habr, Gabor Domokos, Bernard Roubert, Ali Taher

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2011.049957

Multiple myeloma shows no intra-disease clustering of immunoglobulin heavy chain genes (932 Online Views)

Simone Ferrero, Daniela Capello, Mirija Svaldi, Michela Boi, Daniela Gatti, Daniela Drandi, Davide Rossi, Sara Barbiero, Barbara Mantoan, Elisabetta Mantella, Manuela Zanni, Paola Ghione, Alessandra Larocca, Roberto Passera, Francesco Bertoni, Valter Gattei, Francesco Forconi, Luca Laurenti, Giovanni Del Poeta, Roberto Marasca, Sergio Cortelazzo, Gianluca Gaidano, Antonio Palumbo, Mario Boccadoro, Marco Ladetto

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2011.052852

Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance and risk of infections: a population-based study (1779 Online Views)

Sigurdur Y. Kristinsson, Min Tang, Ruth M Pfeiffer, Magnus Björkholm, Lynn R. Goldin, Cecilie Blimark, Ulf-Henrik Mellqvist, Anders Wahlin, Ingemar Turesson, Ola Landgren

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2011.054015

Cytopenia and leukocyte recovery shape cytokine fluctuations after myeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (989 Online Views)

Jan Joseph Melenhorst, Xin Tian, Dihua Xu, Netanya G. Sandler, Philip Scheinberg, Angelique Biancotto, Priscila Scheinberg, John Phil McCoy, Nancy F. Hensel, Zach McIver, Daniel C Douek, Austin John Barrett

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2011.053363

Varicella-zoster virus glycoproteins B and E are major targets of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells reconstituting during zoster after allogeneic transplantation (1380 Online Views)

Patrick Kleemann, Eva Distler, Eva M. Wagner, Simone Thomas, Sebastian Klobuch, Steffi Aue, Elke Schnürer, Hansjörg Schild, Matthias Theobald, Bodo Plachter, Stefan Tenzer, Ralf G. Meyer, Wolfgang Herr

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2011.052597

Clinical cardiac safety profile of nilotinib (2044 Online Views)

Theo D. Kim, Philipp le Coutre, Michaela Schwarz, Peggy Grille, Michal Levitin, Suzanne Fateh-Moghadam, Francis J. Giles, Bernd Dörken, Wilhelm Haverkamp, Clemens Köhncke

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2011.058776

Germ-line GATA2 p.THR354MET mutation in familial myelodysplastic syndrome with acquired monosomy 7 and ASXL1 mutation demonstrating rapid onset and poor survival (1095 Online Views)

Csaba Bödör, Aline Renneville, Matthew Smith, Aurélie Charazac, Sameena Iqbal, Pascaline Étancelin, Jamie Cavenagh, Michael J Barnett, Karolina Kramarzová, Biju Krishnan, András Matolcsy, Claude Preudhomme, Jude Fitzgibbon, Carolyn Owen

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2011.054361

Altered immunophenotypic features of peripheral blood platelets in myelodysplastic syndromes (1114 Online Views)

Alex F. Sandes, Mihoko Yamamoto, Sergio Matarraz, Maria de Lourdes L.F. Chauffaille, Sandra Quijano, Antonio López, Tsutomu Oguro, Eliza Y. S. Kimura, Alberto Orfao

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2011.057158

Prognosis of acute myeloid leukemia harboring monosomal karyotype in patients treated with or without allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation after achieving complete remission (557 Online Views)

Masamitsu Yanada, Saiko Kurosawa, Takuhiro Yamaguchi, Takuya Yamashita, Yukiyoshi Moriuchi, Hiroatsu Ago, Jin Takeuchi, Hirohisa Nakamae, Jun Taguchi, Toru Sakura, Yasushi Takamatsu, Fusako Waki, Hiroki Yokoyama, Masato Watanabe, Nobuhiko Emi, Takahiro Fukuda

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2011.058289

Precursor B-acute lymphoblastic leukemia occurring in patients with a history of prior malignancies: is it therapy-related? (923 Online Views)

Guilin Tang, Zhuang Zuo, Deborah A. Thomas, Pei Lin, Dingsheng Liu, Ying Hu, Hagop M. Kantarjian, Carlos Bueso-Ramos, L. Jeffrey Medeiros, Sa A. Wang

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2011.057752

Physical contact with endothelial cells through β1- and β2- integrins rescues chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells from spontaneous and drug-induced apoptosis and induces a peculiar gene expression profile in leukemic cells (1062 Online Views)

Rossana Maffei, Stefania Fiorcari, Jenny Bulgarelli, Silvia Martinelli, Ilaria Castelli, Silvia Deaglio, Giulia Debbia, Marcella Fontana, Valeria Coluccio, Goretta Bonacorsi, Patrizia Zucchini, Franco Narni, Giuseppe Torelli, Mario Luppi, Roberto Marasca

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2011.054924

Hematology News

Online Only Articles

Characterization of potential CD138 negative myeloma “stem cells” (1002 Online Views)

Jacob H. Christensen, Pia V. Jensen, Ida B. Kristensen, Niels Abildgaard, Marianne Lodahl, Thomas Rasmussen

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2011.043125

Original Articles and Brief Reports

Discontinuation of imatinib in Japanese patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (1055 Online Views)

Naoto Takahashi, Taiichi Kyo, Yasuhiro Maeda, Takashi Sugihara, Kensuke Usuki, Tatsuya Kawaguchi, Noriko Usui, Shinichiro Okamoto, Yokiko Ohe, Shigeki Ohtake, Kunio Kitamura, Masahide Yamamoto, Hirofumi Teshima, Toshiko Motoji, Toshiharu Tamaki, Kenichi Sawada, Kazuma Ohyashiki

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2011.056853

Chronic phase chronic myeloid leukemia patients with low OCT-1 activity randomized to high-dose imatinib achieve better responses and have lower failure rates than those randomized to standard-dose imatinib (823 Online Views)

Deborah L. White, Jerald Radich, Simona Soverini, Verity A Saunders, Amity K. Frede, Phuong Dang, Daniela Cilloni, Peter Lin, Lidia Mongay, Richard Woodman, Paul Manley, Cassandra Slader, Dong Wook Kim, Fabrizio Pane, Giovanni Martinelli, Giuseppe Saglio, Timothy P. Hughes

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2011.056457

A20 inactivation in ocular adnexal MALT lymphoma (809 Online Views)

Yingwen Bi, Naiyan Zeng, Estelle Chanudet, Yuanxue Huang, Rifat A. Hamoudi, Hongxiang Liu, Gehong Dong, A. James Watkins, Steven C. Ley, Lifen Zou, Rongjia Chen, Xiongzeng Zhu, Ming-Qing Du

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2010.036798

Positron emission tomography/computed tomography surveillance in patients with Hodgkin lymphoma in first remission has a low positive predictive value and high costs (1208 Online Views)

Tarec Christoffer El-Galaly, Karen Juul Mylam, Peter Brown, Lena Specht, Ilse Christiansen, Lars Munksgaard, Hans Erik Johnsen, Annika Loft, Anne Bukh, Victor Iyer, Anne Lerberg Nielsen, Martin Hutchings

https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2011.056010