BACKGROUND Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is commonly used in experimental studies to investigate the contribution of BM-derived circulating cells to different disease processes. During studies investigating the cardiac response to acute myocardial infarction (MI) induced by permanent coronary ligation in mice that had previously undergone BMT, we found that BMT itself affects the remodellin...

INTRODUCTION Crooked or deviated nose is a deviation of the nose from the straight vertical position of the face. Extensive pneumatization of the middle turbinate, also called concha bullosa or bullous middle turbinate (BMT) is known to be one of the possible etiologic factors in nasal obstruction, recurrent sinusitis, and headache. There is no study concerning a link between BMT and crooked no...

Adoptive transfer of allergen-specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) from atopic donors to nonatopic recipients occurs during the first year following bone marrow transplantation (BMT). Mature B- and T-cell clones with allergen-specific memory and hematopoietic progenitor cells are transferred through BMT. The objective of this study was to characterize the long-term rate of allergic sensitization and...

We evaluated T-cell mediated lymphokine activated killer (LAK) function during the late (greater than 5 months) reconstitution phase after T cell-depleted allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) for hematologic malignancy. Since LAK cells are sustained by interleukin-2 (IL-2), we also investigated the ability of post-BMT T cells to produce IL-2. These functions were investigated at the clo...

Limiting dilution analysis was used to quantify the frequency of cytotoxic T cell precursors (CTLp) against minor histocompatibility (H) antigens induced by HLA-identical BMT. The development of CTLp was monitored serially in ten patients developing either acute (n = 3), acute and chronic (n = 4) or no (n = 3) GVHD. In blood samples of patients taken shortly after BMT (< 100 days) a high freque...

BACKGROUND Parents often experience stress-related complications when their child requires blood and marrow transplant (BMT). Previous studies have described the emotional toll BMT places on parents during the acute phase of care and within the context of clinical complications. In this paper we introduce the Parent Impact Scale (PARimpact), designed to capture physical and emotional challenges...

ObjectivesTo further assess the early and mid-term outcomes of thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) in patients with acute uncomplicated type B dissection (TBAD) compared those receiving best medical treatment (BMT).MethodsBetween February 2008 March 2018, 357 consecutive TBAD were retrospectively analyzed. Among them, 191 underwent TEVAR, 166 received BMT. After propensity score matchin...

Background: Osteoporosis affects bone metabolism and may result in fragility fractures. Medications include modulating therapy (BMT), which come with the risk of osteonecrosis jaws (ONJ). The literature is contradictory about impact osteoporosis and/or BMT on dental implant success incidence ONJ. Purpose: aim present study was to assess effect early failure (EIF) ONJ (primary outcome parameters...

Hemorrhagic cystitis that occurs late after bone marrow transplantation (BMT) in BMT recipients is often associated with adenovirus or polyomavirus BK infections. Intravesical instillation of cidofovir in a BMT recipient with intractable hemorrhagic cystitis resulted in clinical improvement. Local cidofovir therapy for viral hemorrhagic cystitis could be an alternative to intravenous administra...

One of the major obstacles in allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (allo-BMT) is prolonged T cell dysfunction resulting in a variety of infectious complications in the months to years after hematologic engraftment. We previously showed that immobilized extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins such as fibronectin (FN), the CS-1 domain of FN, or collagen (CO) acted synergistically with immobilized a...