TO THE EDITOR: In their recent editorial on the disappointing disagreement between two World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)-accredited laboratories evaluating samples for detecting recombinant human erythropoietin (Epo) in urine, Delanghe and Joyner (4) concluded that blood-based indirect Epo tests offer an interesting alternative (2). This is ideally true, considering that the urine test is proven ...

Aim: To determine the frequency of non malignant hematological causes of pancytopenia. Bone marrow examination of 148 cases of suspected hematological disorders was carried out in a DHQ KDA Hospital, Kohat from Jan. 2011to Dec. 2013. Results: Among the non malignant hematological disorders, megaloblastic anemia was the most common disorder i.e., (18.2%) followed by aplastic anemia (8.8%), ITP (...

Generally, clinical presentations of Graves' disease range from asymptomatic disease to overt symptomatic hyperthyroidism with heat intolerance, tremor, palpitation, weight loss, and increased appetite. However, atypical presentation of Graves' disease with hematological system involvement, notably pancytopenia, is distinctly uncommon. Hereby, we present and discuss a series of three untreated ...

Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and AIDS are risk factors for the development of malignant neoplasms, including hematological malignancies, such as non-Hodgkin lymphoma. NF1 is an autosomal dominant disease that primarily manifests as café-au-lait spots, dermal neurofibromas, axillary and/or inguinal ephelides or freckles, plexiform neurofibromas, Lisch nodules, and bone deformities. In this rep...

Introduction Hypertension and dyslipidemia are the two coexisting and synergizing major risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. The cellular constituents of blood affect the volume and viscosity of blood, thus playing a key role in regulating blood pressure. Overweight and obesity are key determinants of adverse metabolic changes including an increase in blood pressure. The aim of this study ...

BACKGROUND Running economy and performance in middle distance running depend on several physiological factors, which include anthropometric variables, functional characteristics, training volume and intensity. Since little information is available about hematological predictors of middle distance running time, we investigated whether some hematological parameters may be associated with middle d...

BACKGROUND Hematological abnormalities are a common complication of HIV infection. These abnormalities increase as the disease advances. Bone marrow abnormalities occur in all stages of HIV infection. METHODS Two hundred HIV infected individual were screened for hematological abnormalities from March 2007-March 2008. Absolute CD4 cell count analysis was carried out by flowcytometry. Depending...

BACKGROUND Although no definite risk factors have emerged for the different hematological malignancies, a viral cause has been postulated. Several studies have detected SV40 DNA sequences in tumor tissues obtained from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patients. A link between SV40 and NHL is biologically plausible because SV40 causes hematological malignancies in laboratory rodents. METHODS We investig...

Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) have well established anti-cancer properties. Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) are among this biologically active family of macromolecules for which various anti-cancer effects have been explained. These PUFAs have a high safety profile and can induce apoptosis and inhibit growth of cancer cells both in vitro and in vivo, fol...

Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death and a major part of its pathophysiology remains obscure. Some hematological targets have been related to the development and clinical outcome of this disease, especially soluble cytokines, leukocytes, red blood cells, hemostatic factors and platelets, and bone-marrow vascular progenitors. These emerging factors may be modulate...