BACKGROUND/AIMS The clinical outcomes of patients with hematologic malignancies who were treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) after the failu re of optimal conventional therapy were determined. METHODS The medical records of all patients administered ECMO during their stay in a medical intensive care unit of Seoul St. Mary's Hospital between February 2010 and July 2013 were...

Cancer and especially hematological cancer during pregnancy is infrequent and its management is difficult for patients and their families, but also for their physicians since two lives with different priorities have to be considered. Treatment should adhere the standard treatment for the specific type and stage of cancer. Small adaptations can be considered in order to avoid adverse effects on ...

T HE p53 HAS BEEN CHOSEN as molecule of the year for 1993 by the journal Science.' The protein's illustrious history began quietly in 1979, when a 53-kD eukaryotic protein was shown to bind to SV40 large T The protein was named p53 because of its size. Initial studies suggested that p53 was an oncogene because it could transform rodent ~ e l l s . ~ ' ~ The p53 genes used in these studies h...

The expression of CD44 was upregulated in some hematological malignancies and is associated with metastasis and prognosis. The ligation of CD44 with specific monoclonal antibodies can trigger terminal differentiation of leukemic blasts in some subtypes, so it is probable to develop an anti-CD44 based differentiation therapy in leukemia. The effects of CD44 and its monoclonal antibodies are disc...

linezolid (lzd), severed as the first oxazolidinone antibiotic, was active against multidrug-resistant gram-positive strains. lzd can induce thrombocytopenia, anemia and leukocytopenia. currently, reports on pure red cell aplasia (prca) cases induced by lzd are relatively rare [4-7]. in this paper, we reported a patient with prca twice induced by lzd. a 37-year-old man was diagnosed with myelody...

A retrospective blind study of 32 patients with the hypereosinophilic syndrome was undertaken utilizing a hematologic scoring system that was based on peripheral blood and bone marrow findings, cytogenetics B12 levels, and leukocyte alkaline phosphatase determinations. In addition to the grading system, which allowed formulation of a hematologic score, the date could also be normalized for indi...

Corona virus 2019 (COVID –19) is a public health emergency and according to the recent statistic of World Health Organization (WHO), this novel virus has infected all continents. During this outbreak, there is an urgent need for documentation of laboratory predictors to discriminate between mild and severe forms of this virus. In this pandemic, prompt identification of clinical and labora...

BACKGROUND Clopidogrel and ticlopidine are structurally very similar. In patients with an allergic or hematologic adverse reaction to either one of these drugs, the likelihood that an allergic or hematologic adverse effect will develop to the other is unknown. It is also unknown whether a reaction to the second thienopyridine is likely to be life threatening. METHODS AND RESULTS Medical recor...

BACKGROUND Patients with the Shwachman-Diamond syndrome often develop hematologic complications. No risk factors for these complications have so far been identified. The aim of this study was to classify the hematologic complications occurring in patients with Shwachman-Diamond syndrome and to investigate the risk factors for these complications. DESIGN AND METHODS One hundred and two patient...

Eosinophilic dermatosis of hematologic malignancy is a rare papulovesicular eruption that presents in patients with hematoproliferative disorders, particularly chronic lymphocytic leukemia. A 59-year-old woman with chronic lymphocytic leukemia who developed eosinophilic dermatosis of hematologic malignancy mimicking varicella zoster infection is described. PubMed database was searched with the ...