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Use of totally implantable catheters for peripheral blood stem cell apheresis
Collection of PBSC by leukapheresis requires one venous access (VA) for inflow and one for outflow. The use of implantable venous access devices (IVAD) has never been reported in this setting. We retrospective...
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Is there a correlation between age and D-aspartic acid in human knee cartilage?
L-Aspartic acid (L-Asp) is one of the fastest racemizing amino acids such that the abnormal D-form (D-Asp) has been found in stable biological human tissues such as dentin in teeth, eye lens and ...
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Changes in brain natriuretic peptide concentrations after cardiac surgery: kinetics and prognostic value
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Prognostic value of cardiac Troponin I after cardiac surgery: comparison with two different assays
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Open AccessBaseline and early lymphopenia predict for the risk of febrile neutropenia after chemotherapy
A risk model for febrile neutropenia (FN) after conventional cytotoxic chemotherapy, based on early (day 5) lymphopenia and the dose of chemotherapy, has been described. A risk index based on parameters availa...
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Congenital bowel perforation in twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome
Two unrelated survivors of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) presented with intestinal perforation at birth. Both were localised perforations without any suggestion of widespread ischaemic disease to th...
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Open AccessA phase I/II study of 4 monthly courses of high-dose cyclophosphamide and thiotepa for metastatic breast cancer patients
This pilot phase I/II study intended to determine the maximum tolerated dose of cyclophosphamide and thiotepa administered on four consecutive courses with peripheral blood progenitor cell and granulocyte-colo...
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Autologous transplantation in acute myeloid leukemia: peripheral blood stem cell harvest after mobilization in steady state by granulocyte colony-stimulating factor alone
In order to determine whether granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) alone initiated during steady state was able to mobilize peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and to a...
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Late autologous transplantation in chronic myelogenous leukemia with peripheral blood progenitor cells mobilized by G-CSF and interferon-α
In chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), autologous stem cell transplantation could be a promising new approach for patients with no cytogenetic response after interferon α (IFN-α) therapy. We report data on 28 ...
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Research controversies in management of oral mucositis
The management of mucositis is the subject of many controversies, and the optimal treatment is still not known. Several evaluation scoring systems have been described, but no one of these is appropriate to al...
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Immunological and molecular detection of tumor contamination in leukapheresis products from children with disseminated neuroblastoma: implication for evaluation of tumor cell depletion after CD34 selection
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High-dose chemotherapy with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in patients with mantle cell or diffuse centrocytic non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas: a single center experience on 18 patients
Between 1985 and 1996, 18 patients with diffuse centrocytic lymphoma (DCL), including nine patients with an established histological and phenotypic diagnosis of mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), received 19 courses ...
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Peripheral Blood Stem Cells Mobilization with G-CSF (FILGRASTIM) Alone for Autologous Transplant in Myeloid and Lymphoid Malignancies
In order to determine whether granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) alone was capable of mobilizing peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) in myeloid as well in lymphoid malignancies, G-CSF (filgrastim), 5...
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Double megatherapy and autologous bone marrow transplantation for advanced neuroblastoma: the LMCE2 study
In the LMCE1 study using a single course of megatherapy most of the relapses occurred during the first 2 years after autologous bone marrow transplantation. A second pilot study (LMCE2) was therefore set up us...
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Interleukin-2 (IL-2) After Autologous Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT):A Pilot Study of Late Administration, 2–3 Months Post ABMT
Association of high-dose radiotherapy ± chemotherapy can cure poor risk hematological neoplasias and solid tumors. This cure is related to the treatment dose effect as well as to the immunological effect (graf...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
rIL-2 Immunotherapy for 19 Children with Advanced Metastatic Neuroblastoma
Considerable progress has been achieved in the treatment of stage IV neuroblastoma in children over 1 year of age. Induction therapy and surgery followed by vincristine, high-dose melphalan, total body irridia...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Adoptive Immunotherapy with IL-2 in 27 Patients with Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma
Adoptive immunotherapy with IL-2 and LAK cells induces tumor regressions in humans as well as in animals [1, 2]. Previous reports [3–5] clearly demonstrated the efficiency of in vivo IL-2 in melanoma and renal...
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Immunological detection of neuroblastoma cells in bone marrow harvested for autologous transplantation
In about 50% of patients with stage IV neuroblastoma, micrometastases are present in the bone marrow when it is harvested for an autograft to follow induction therapy, and the risk of graft contamination by ne...
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Histological, cytological and immunological analyses are complementary for the detection of neuroblastoma cells in bone marrow
On 80 occasions 4 iliac biopsy trephines and 4 iliac aspirations were performed in 37 children with neuroblastoma at various stages of the disease. In 38 of these procedures, tumour cells were detected. In 24%...