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Prospective qualitative and quantitative non-invasive evaluation of intestinal acute GVHD by contrast-enhanced ultrasound sonography
Intestinal acute GVHD (I-aGVHD) is a life-threatening complication after allografting. Non-invasive bed-side procedures to evaluate extension and treatment response are still lacking. We hypothesized that, dur...
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Central nervous system graft-versus-host disease: consider progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy among the differential diagnoses
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Granulocytic sarcoma and subsequent acute leukemia recurrence with different biologic characteristics 5 years after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation for acute myeloid leukemia
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A myeloablative allograft after rejection of two consecutive nonmyeloablative transplants from two different HLA identical siblings
A 55-year-old female with standard risk AML in second CR received an allogenic transplant from an HLA-matched sibling, using a nonmyeloablative conditioning regimen (NMST). On day +139, she rejected her graft ...
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Quantitative molecular evaluation in autotransplant programs for follicular lymphoma: efficacy of in vivo purging by Rituximab
The main aim of this paper was to compare results of Genescan and real-time PCR methods in order to detect contamination in harvests from patients with follicular lymphoma. The secondary goal was to evaluate t...
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Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for multiple sclerosis
Rationale Phase I/II studies of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) for multiple sclerosis (MS) were initiated, based on results of experimental transplantation in animal mo...
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The role of molecular monitoring in autotransplantation for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
Seventy-two patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma were evaluated for the presence of molecular markers (IgH, bcl-1, bcl-2 rearrangement) on bone marrow, at diagnosis and after PBSCT, and on harvests in order to...
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Arsenic and all-trans retinoic acid as induction therapy before autograft in a case of relapsed resistant secondary acute promyelocytic leukemia
Arsenic trioxide has recently been reported to be successful in the treatment of promyelocytic leukemia. Several concerns about the use of this toxic agent are currently reducing its potential clinical use eve...
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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy in a case of post-total body irradiation colitis
We report a 21-year-old man who experienced symptoms of colitis following autologous TBI-conditioned PBSC transplantation, which persisted despite conventional treatment. Abdominal echography showed a thickene...
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Alfa-interferon in the treatment of essential thrombocythemia: clinical results and evaluation of its biological effects on the hematopoietic neoplastic clone
The efficacy of alfa-interferon (alfa-IFN) in essential thrombocythemia (ET) patients has been reported by several authors. The aim of this study is to assess the magnitude of the effect of alfa-IFN on the neo...
