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What are a patient's current chances of finding a matched unrelated donor? Twenty years’ central search experience in a small country
Between 1988 and 2007, international searches for matched unrelated donors (MUDs) were performed for 1586 Austrian patients. Between 2004 and 2007, a MUD was identified for 76.7% of the patients. Between 1996 ...
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Retinoblastom: späte Diagnose auch in Österreich
The accurate diagnosis of retinoblastoma does not only save the lives of our young patients, but sometimes makes preservation of the treated globes possible with a visual function enabling our patients to live...
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Organ tolerance following cadaveric liver transplantation for chronic graft-versus-host disease after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation
A paediatric patient was treated with orthotopic liver transplantation after he developed cirrhosis of the liver due to chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) following allogeneic bone marrow transplantation...
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Unrelated partially matched peripheral blood stem cell transplantation with highly purified CD34+ cells in a child with Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome
Stem cell transplantation is the only curative approach to the treatment of Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome. However, using grafts from partially matched unrelated donors is associated with increased risk of graft re...
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Unrelated peripheral blood stem cell transplantation with ‘megadoses’ of purified CD34+ cells in three children with refractory severe aplastic anemia
Three children with refractory severe aplastic anemia were transfused with high numbers of unrelated matched (n = 2) or C-locus haploidentical mismatched (n = 1) CD34-selected peripheral blood stem cells in the a...
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Neuroendokrine Spätfolgen nach Hirntumoren im Kindesalter
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Discrepancy of clinical, radiographic and histopathologic findings in two children with chronic pulmonary graft-versus-host disease after HLA-identical sibling stem cell transplantation
We report two children who presented with cough and shortness of breath 7–8 months after a matched sibling stem cell transplant (SCT) for chronic myelogenous leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome, respectively...
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Unrelated 5/6-locus matched umbilical cord blood transplantation in a 23-month-old child with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
A diagnosis of familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHL) was established in an 18-month-old boy who presented with prolonged fever of unknown origin, severe pancytopenia, hepatosplenomegaly and hypofib...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Thorakale Neuroblastome
Between 1984 and 1994 operations for thoracic neuroblastomas were performed in ten patients (six boys, four girls). The median age was 17 months, the follow-up ranges between 6 months and 11 years; one patient...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Treatment of Childhood Acute Nonlymphoblastic Leukemia — Final Results of the Austrian-Hungarian Study AML-IGCL-84
In the treatment of childhood acute nonlymphoblastic leukemia remission rates of 70 to 80 percent can be achieved by a variety of intensive induction chemotherapy regimens [1–5]. Anthracycline antibiotics are ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Ergebnisse der multizentrischen Chemotherapiepilotstudie HIT’88/’89
Hirntumoren sind im Kindesalter die größte Diagnosegruppe unter den soliden Tumoren (Haaf et al. 1991). Mit Operation und Bestrahlung können nicht viel mehr als 50% der Kinder mit einem Medulloblastom oder Epe...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Treatment of Childhood Acute Nonlymphocytic Leukemia: Cooperative Austrian-Hungarian Study AML-IGCI-84
Improved remission rates of 70%–80% in childhood acute nonlymphocytic leukemia (ANLL) have been achieved by several groups. Anthracyclines (daunorubicin, doxorubicin) are of great value in the treatment of ANL...
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Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy caused by lung metastasis of an osteosarcoma
A case of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA) caused by lung metastasis of an osteosarcoma in a 14-year-old boy and the remission of the HOA after intra-arterial chemotherapy is presented. The clinical, radiol...
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Chapter
A Vortex-Lattice Method for the Calculation of Wing-Vortex Interaction in Subsonic Flow
Flow interferences between wings and free vortex sheets (e.g. canard-wing with vortex separation) can influence the aerodynamic characteristics of a configuration to a considerable extent. If viscous and turbu...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Incidence of Serious Infections After Splenectomy in Childhood
There is international agreement which confirms the serious risks to splenectomized patients because of overwhelming postsplenectomy infections (OPSI) and other serious infections. By analysis of reports of in...
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Percutaneous removal of a severed central venous catheter from the right heart in a 13-year-old girl
The distal tip of a catheter was accidentally severed in a 13-year-old girl when a polyethylene catheter was inserted into the right subclavian vein.
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Intracranial bleeding during therapy with L-asparaginase in childhood acute lymphocytic leukemia
Two patients developed clinical features of intracranial bleeding—which were confirmed by computerized axial tomograms—during their induction therapy for acute lymphocytic leukemia. Coagulation studies showed ...
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Congenital B12-malabsorption without proteinuria
In zwei nichtverwandten Familien leiden drei Kinder an einer megaloblastären Anämie, die sich im Laufe des zweiten Lebensjahres manifestiert. Die Ursache der Anämie ist eine kongenitale Vitamin-B12-Malabsorption,...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Wilmstumor mit Tumorthrombus im rechten Vorhof
Ein kontinuierliches Wachstum eines Wilms-tumors in der unteren Hohlvene bis zum rechten Herzen ist sehr selten. Slovis und Mitarb. [1] berichteten 1978 über vier eigene und vier Fälle aus der Literatur, Stamb...
