| | Other Issues: previous | next | latest | archiveEditorials and Perspectives Prognostic implications of anemia in older adults Kushang V. Patel and Jack M. Guralnik Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 1–2. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2008.001289.PMCID: PMC2625415 Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria and myelodysplastic sydromes: clonal expansion of PIG-A-mutant hematopoietic cells in bone marrow failure Neal S. Young Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 3–7. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2008.001297.PMCID: PMC2625409 Clinical relevance of JAK2 (V617F) mutant allele burden Francesco Passamonti and Elisa Rumi Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 7–10. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2008.001271.PMCID: PMC2625431 Treatment of acute myeloid leukemia Elihu H. Estey Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 10–16. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2008.001263.PMCID: PMC2625419 Clinicobiological, prognostic and therapeutic implications of the tumor microenvironment in follicular lymphoma Marylène Lejeune and Tomás Álvaro Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 16–21. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2008.001255.PMCID: PMC2625413 Original Articles Red Cell Disorders Association of mild anemia with hospitalization and mortality in the elderly: the Health and Anemia population-based study Emma Riva, Mauro Tettamanti, Paola Mosconi, Giovanni Apolone, Francesca Gandini, Alessandro Nobili, Maria Vittoria Tallone, Paolo Detoma, Adriano Giacomin, Mario Clerico, Patrizia Tempia, Adriano Guala, Gilberto Fasolo, and Ugo Lucca Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 22–28. Published online 2008 November 10. doi: 10.3324/haematol.13449.PMCID: PMC2625429 Myelodysplastic Syndromes Detection of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria clones in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes and related bone marrow diseases, with emphasis on diagnostic pitfalls and caveats Sa A. Wang, Olga Pozdnyakova, Jeffrey L. Jorgensen, L. Jeffrey Medeiros, Dariusz Stachurski, Mary Anderson, Azra Raza, and Bruce A. Woda Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 29–37. Published online 2008 November 10. doi: 10.3324/haematol.13601.PMCID: PMC2625410 Myeloproliferative Disorders Concordance of assays designed for the quantification of JAK2V617F: a multicenter study Eric Lippert, François Girodon, Emma Hammond, Jaroslav Jelinek, N. Scott Reading, Boris Fehse, Katy Hanlon, Mirjam Hermans, Céline Richard, Sabina Swierczek, Valérie Ugo, Serge Carillo, Véronique Harrivel, Christophe Marzac, Daniela Pietra, Marta Sobas, Morgane Mounier, Marina Migeon, Sian Ellard, Nicolaus Kröger, Richard Herrmann, Josef T. Prchal, Radek C. Skoda, and Sylvie Hermouet Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 38–45. Published online 2008 November 10. doi: 10.3324/haematol.13486.PMCID: PMC2625411 Acute Myeloid Leukemia Correlation of minimal residual disease cell frequency with molecular genotype in patients with acute myeloid leukemia Corine J. Hess, Nicole Feller, Fedor Denkers, Angèle Kelder, Pauline A. Merle, Michael C. Heinrich, Amy Harlow, Johannes Berkhof, Gert J. Ossenkoppele, Quinten Waisfisz, and Gerrit J. Schuurhuis Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 46–53. Published online 2008 November 27. doi: 10.3324/haematol.13110.PMCID: PMC2625416 Gene mutations and response to treatment with all-trans retinoic acid in elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia. Results from the AMLSG Trial AML HD98B Richard F. Schlenk, Konstanze Döhner, Michael Kneba, Katharina Götze, Frank Hartmann, Francesco del Valle, Heinz Kirchen, Elisabeth Koller, Jörg T. Fischer, Lars Bullinger, Marianne Habdank, Daniela Späth, Silja Groner, Bernhard Krebs, Sabine Kayser, Andrea Corbacioglu, Andreas Anhalt, Axel Benner, Stefan Fröhling, and Hartmut Döhner Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 54–60. Published online 2008 December 4. doi: 10.3324/haematol.13378.PMCID: PMC2625424 Malignant Lymphomas The potential of copy number gains and losses, detected by array-based comparative genomic hybridization, for computational differential diagnosis of B-cell lymphomas and genetic regions involved in lymphomagenesis Ichiro Takeuchi, Hiroyuki Tagawa, Akira Tsujikawa, Masao Nakagawa, Miyuki Katayama-Suguro, Ying Guo, and Masao Seto Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 61–69. Published online 2008 November 23. doi: 10.3324/haematol.12986.PMCID: PMC2625430 Impact of the tumor microenvironment on prognosis in follicular lymphoma is dependent on specific treatment protocols Daphne de Jong, Ad Koster, Anton Hagenbeek, John Raemaekers, Dennis Veldhuizen, Sabien Heisterkamp, Jan Paul de Boer, and Martine van Glabbeke Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 70–77. Published online 2008 December 4. doi: 10.3324/haematol.13574.PMCID: PMC2625428 Multiple Myeloma MMSET deregulation affects cell cycle progression and adhesion regulons in t(4;14) myeloma plasma cells Jose L.R. Brito, Brian Walker, Matthew Jenner, Nicholas J. Dickens, Nicola J.M. Brown, Fiona M. Ross, Athanasia Avramidou, Julie A.E. Irving, David Gonzalez, Faith E. Davies, and Gareth J. Morgan Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 78–86. Published online 2008 December 4. doi: 10.3324/haematol.13426.PMCID: PMC2625417 Impact of XIAP protein levels on the survival of myeloma cells Grégoire Desplanques, Nicola Giuliani, Roberto Delsignore, Vittorio Rizzoli, Régis Bataille, and Sophie Barillé-Nion Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 87–93. Published online 2008 November 10. doi: 10.3324/haematol.13483.PMCID: PMC2625405 Stem Cell Transplantation Severe events in donors after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell donation Joerg Halter, Yoshihisa Kodera, Alvaro Urbano Ispizua, Hildegard T. Greinix, Norbert Schmitz, Geneviève Favre, Helen Baldomero, Dietger Niederwieser, Jane F. Apperley, and Alois Gratwohl Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 94–101. Published online 2008 December 4. doi: 10.3324/haematol.13668.PMCID: PMC2625420 Decision Making and Problem Solving Acute Myeloid Leukemia Clinical management of primary non-acute promyelocytic leukemia acute myeloid leukemia: practice Guidelines by the Italian Society of Hematology, the Italian Society of Experimental Hematology and the Italian Group for Bone Marrow Transplantation Enrica Morra, Giovanni Barosi, Alberto Bosi, Felicetto Ferrara, Franco Locatelli, Monia Marchetti, Giovanni Martinelli, Cristina Mecucci, Marco Vignetti, and Sante Tura Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 102–112. Published online 2008 November 10. doi: 10.3324/haematol.13166.PMCID: PMC2625406 Fungal Infections Primary prophylaxis of invasive fungal infections in patients with hematologic malignancies. Recommendations of the Infectious Diseases Working Party of the German Society for Haematology and Oncology Oliver A. Cornely, Angelika Böhme, Dieter Buchheidt, Hermann Einsele, Werner J. Heinz, Meinolf Karthaus, Stefan W. Krause, William Krüger, Georg Maschmeyer, Olaf Penack, Jörg Ritter, Markus Ruhnke, Michael Sandherr, Michal Sieniawski, Jörg-Janne Vehreschild, Hans-Heinrich Wolf, and Andrew J. Ullmann Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 113–122. Published online 2008 December 9. doi: 10.3324/haematol.11665.PMCID: PMC2625427 Brief Reports Sickle Cell Disease Effect of transfusion therapy on cerebral vasculopathy in children with sickle-cell anemia Brigitte Bader-Meunier, Suzanne Verlhac, Monique Elmaleh-Bergès, Ghislaine Ithier, Fatiha Sellami, Sonia Faid, Florence Missud, Rolande Ducrocq, Corinne Alberti, Isabelle Zaccaria, Andre Baruchel, and Malika Benkerrou Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 123–126. Published online 2008 December 4. doi: 10.3324/haematol.13610.PMCID: PMC2625404 Myeloproliferative Disorders CD146+ bone marrow osteoprogenitors increase in the advanced stages of primary myelofibrosis Claudio Tripodo, Andrea Di Bernardo, Maria Paola Ternullo, Carla Guarnotta, Rossana Porcasi, Sabrina Ingrao, Umberto Gianelli, Emanuela Boveri, Emilio Iannitto, Giovanni Franco, and Ada Maria Florena Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 127–130. Published online 2008 November 23. doi: 10.3324/haematol.13598.PMCID: PMC2625423 Acute Myeloid Leukemia Prediction of molecular subtypes in acute myeloid leukemia based on gene expression profiling Roel G.W. Verhaak, Bas J. Wouters, Claudia A.J. Erpelinck, Saman Abbas, H. Berna Beverloo, Sanne Lugthart, Bob Löwenberg, Ruud Delwel, and Peter J.M. Valk Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 131–134. Published online 2008 October 6. doi: 10.3324/haematol.13299.PMCID: PMC2625407 Lymphoproliferative Disorders Natural killer or natural killer/T cell lineage large granular lymphocytosis associated with dasatinib therapy for Philadelphia chromosome positive leukemia Dong Hwan Kim, Suzanne Kamel-Reid, Hong Chang, Robert Sutherland, Chul Won Jung, Hyeoung-Joon Kim, Je-Jung Lee, and Jeffrey H. Lipton Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 135–139. Published online 2008 December 9. doi: 10.3324/haematol.13151.PMCID: PMC2625403 Letters to the Editor Thalassemia Syndromes T2* cardiovascular magnetic resonance in the management of thalassemia patients in Oman Shahina Daar, Anil V. Pathare, Rajeev Jain, Shoaib Al Zadjali, and Dudley J. Pennell Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 140–141. Published online 2008 November 10. doi: 10.3324/haematol.13845.PMCID: PMC2625422 Myeloproliferative Disorders Characterization of 35 new cases with four different MPLW515 mutations and essential thrombocytosis or primary myelofibrosis Susanne Schnittger, Ulrike Bacher, Claudia Haferlach, Dietrich Beelen, Peter Bojko, Dieter Bürkle, Robert Dengler, Andrea Distelrath, Michael Eckart, Robert Eckert, Stefan Fries, Jan Knoblich, Georg Köchling, Hans-Peter Laubenstein, Petro Petrides, Manfred Planker, Rudolf Pihusch, Rudolf Weide, Wolfgang Kern, and Torsten Haferlach Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 141–144. Published online 2008 November 23. doi: 10.3324/haematol.13224.PMCID: PMC2625421 JAK2V617F mutational status and allele burden have little influence on clinical phenotype and prognosis in patients with post-polycythemia vera and post-essential thrombocythemia myelofibrosis Paola Guglielmelli, Giovanni Barosi, Lisa Pieri, Elisabetta Antonioli, Alberto Bosi, and Alessandro M. Vannucchi Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 144–146. Published online 2008 November 27. doi: 10.3324/haematol.13721.PMCID: PMC2625425 Malignant Lymphomas High-dose therapy and autologous stem cell transplantation versus conventional therapy for patients with advanced Hodgkin’s lymphoma responding to front-line therapy: long-term results Angelo Michele Carella, Monica Bellei, Pauline Brice, Christian Gisselbrecht, Giuseppe Visani, Philippe Colombat, Francesco Fabbiano, Amedea Donelli, Stefano Luminari, Pierre Feugier, Peter Browett, Hans Hagberg, and Massimo Federico Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 146–148. Published online 2008 November 10. doi: 10.3324/haematol.13484.PMCID: PMC2625418 Clinical relevance of MDM2 SNP 309 and TP53 Arg72Pro in follicular lymphoma David Wrench, Rachel Waters, Emanuela Carlotti, Sameena Iqbal, Janet Matthews, Marie Calaminici, John Gribben, T. Andrew Lister, and Jude Fitzgibbon Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 148–150. Published online 2008 November 23. doi: 10.3324/haematol.13533.PMCID: PMC2625408 Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Pharmacokinetics of alemtuzumab in combination with fludarabine in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia Thomas Elter, Julia Kilp, Peter Borchmann, Holger Schulz, Michael Hallek, and Andreas Engert Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 150–152. Published online 2008 November 10. doi: 10.3324/haematol.13379.PMCID: PMC2625426 Stem Cell Transplantation Respiratory depression and somnolence in children receiving dimethylsulfoxide and morphine during hematopoietic stem cells transplantation Désirée Caselli, Veronica Tintori, Andrea Messeri, Stefano Frenos, Franco Bambi, and Maurizio Aricò Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 152–153. Published online 2008 November 10. doi: 10.3324/haematol.13828.PMCID: PMC2625412 Obituary Ernest Beutler (1928–2008) Bruce Beutler Haematologica. 2009 January; 94(1): 154–156. doi: 10.3324/haematol.13863.PMCID: PMC2625414 |