Allogeneic transplantation of cytokine-mobilized peripheral blood stem cells (PBSCs) is now being increasingly performed, but safety considerations for hematologically normal PBSC donors have not been fully addressed. Progenitors are generally mobilized for collection from normal donors using recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (rhG-CSF). Although the short-term safety profi...

Graph states are a family of stabilizer which can be tailored towards various applications in photonic quantum computing and communication. In this paper, we present modular design based on dot emitters coupled to waveguide optical fiber delay lines deterministically generate N-dimensional cluster other useful graph such as tree repeater states. Unlike previous proposals, our requires no two-qu...

Abstract Neutropenia is the most common hematological toxicity of concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT), and leads to subsequent treatment delays and/or dose reductions. often advances febrile neutropenia serious infections, which can affect prognosis safety patients. The reasonable prevention management vital for patients with malignancies undergoing CCRT. Pegylated recombinant human granulocyte...

Bacteremia remains a veritable scourge for patients with hematologic malignancy undergoing intensive chemotherapy1). Patients with profound granulocytopenia are most likely to develop persistent or recurrent bacteremia despite appropriate antibiotic therapy2•`4), that is, breakthrough bacteremia2). Most patients whose granulocyte counts increase during the course of the infection, however, have...

Some decision problems related to balanced context-free languages are important for their application to the static analysis of programs generating XML strings. One such problem is the balancedness problem which decides whether or not the language of a given contextfree grammar (CFG) over a paired alphabet is balanced. Another important problem is the validation problem which decides whether or...

RhG-CSF is widely used in hematology and oncology for the amelioration of chemotherapy induced neutropenia, for the restoration of neutrophil production after bone marrow transplantation, and for other conditions such as myelodysplastic syndromes, aplastic anemia and severe chronic neutropenia. Moreover, RhG-CSF is able to bring about a lot of functional and phenotype modifications in the induc...

Two dogs with generalized seizures were evaluated. The dogs were diagnosed with traumatic intracranial hemorrhages based on the history, neurological examinations, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain. Treatment was started with oxygen, prednisolone and anticonvulsant agents. No further seizure activity was observed after treatment in both dogs, however cushing reflex was detected ...

BACKGROUND Providing reproductive and sexual health services is an important and challenging aspect of caring for displaced populations, and preventive and curative sexual health services may play a role in reducing HIV transmission in complex emergencies. From 1995, the non-governmental "Reproductive Health Group" (RHG) worked amongst refugees displaced by conflicts in Sierra Leone and Liberia...

A prospective multicenter trial of 119 children 1 to 18 years of age with newly diagnosed aplastic anemia (AA) was conducted, comparing treatment using antithymocyte globulin (ATG), cyclosporine (CyA), and danazol (DAN) with or without rhG-CSF (400 mg/m2, day on days 1-90). All children with very severe AA received rhG-CSF (VSAA group, n 5 50). The other children were randomized to receive ATG,...

A prospective multicenter trial of 119 children 1 to 18 years of age with newly diagnosed aplastic anemia (AA) was conducted, comparing treatment using antithymocyte globulin (ATG), cyclosporine (CyA), and danazol (DAN) with or without rhG-CSF (400 microg/m(2), day on days 1-90). All children with very severe AA received rhG-CSF (VSAA group, n = 50). The other children were randomized to receiv...