PURPOSE To evaluate the clinical effects of conjunctiva-Muller muscle resection through conjunctival incision in anophthalmic patients with mild ptosis. METHODS Conjunctiva-Müller muscle resection was performed by one surgeon in 8 patients (8 eyes) who had received evisceration or enucleation and responded to 10% phenylephrine solution to correct ptosis. The average age of the patients was 35...

Effectiveness of double umbilical cord blood (dUCB) grafts relative to conventional marrow and mobilized peripheral blood from related and unrelated donors has yet to be established. We studied 536 patients at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Minnesota with malignant disease who underwent transplantation with an human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-matched related donor (MR...

Minimal residual disease (MRD) before myeloablative hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is associated with adverse outcome in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in first complete remission (CR1). To compare this association with that for patients in second complete remission (CR2) and to examine the quantitative impact of MRD, we studied 253 consecutive patients receiving myeloablative HCT for A...

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous disease. Even within the same NPM1-mutated genetic subgroup, some patients harbor additional mutations in FLT3, IDH1/2, DNMT3A or TET2. Recent studies have shown the prognostic significance of minimal residual disease (MRD) in AML but it remains to be determined which molecular markers are the most suitable for MRD monitoring. Recent advances in n...

The outcome of high-risk (HR) acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients enrolled in the AIEOP-BFM ALL 2000 study in Italy is described. HR criteria were minimal residual disease (MRD) levels ≥10(-3) at day 78 (MRD-HR), no complete remission (CR) at day 33, t(4;11) translocation, and prednisone poor response (PPR). Treatment (2 years) included protocol I, 3 polychemotherapy blocks, delayed intensifi...

The predictive strength of next-generation sequencing MRD detection for relapse compared with current methods in childhood ALL Minimal residual disease (MRD) monitoring via antigen receptor quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is an important pre-dictor of outcome in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), is rigorously standardized within the EuroMRD consortium and has a greater...

In adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), advances in chemotherapy have improved hematologic response rates to greater than 80% and relapses rates to below 50%. Leukemic cells not detected by conventional morphological methods may persist or reappear after chemotherapy as minimal residual disease (MRD), defined as at least 10 (0.01%) leukemic cells detected by quantitative polymerase c...

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a hematological malignancy with a poor prognosis, characterized by clonal proliferation of plasma cells in the bone marrow (BM). Relapse due to undetected minimal residual disease (MRD) is the leading cause of death among patients with MM. This review summarizes the methods and prognostic value of MRD assessment in BM and autografts from MM patients who underwent autolo...

In this paper, we present a new family of maximum rank distance (MRD for short) codes in F q of minimum distance 2 ≤ d ≤ 2n. In particular, when d = 2n, we can show that the corresponding semifield is exactly a Hughes-Kleinfeld semifield. The middle and right nuclei of these MRD codes are both equal to Fqn . We also prove that the MRD codes of minimum distance 2 < d < 2n in this family are ineq...