I enjoyed the article by 1. Eivazi Ziai, et al. concerning "Use of myeloperoxidase index as a suitable tool to monitor response to therapy in patients with megaloblastic anemia" that was published in the last issue of the Medical Journal ofIslamic Republic of Iran. I I would like to make some points regarding this study. A. The authors mentioned that in primary evaluation of 50 anemic pa...

six patients with disseminated hodgkin's disease resistant to mopp (mechlorethamine, vincristine, procarbazine and prednisolone), and abvd (adriamycin, bleomycin, vinblastine and dacarbazine) chemotherapy were treated with high-dose chemotherapy and autologous marrow transplantation. the patients first underwent marrow aspiration and storage for subsequent autologous bone marrow transplant...

Bone marrow aspiration has now been an established procedure in haematology for close on 50 years (Pianese, 1905), but it has been only during the last two decades, following the studies of Kato (1937), Vogel and Bassen (1939), and Diwany (1940), that a study of bone marrow has become routine procedure in the diagnosis of an increasing variety of diseases in children. The aim of this communicat...

To make bone marrow aspiration and trephine biopsy less painful and more acceptable in children a short acting anaesthetic ketamine was used in a dose of 1-2 mg/kg body weight intravenously or 4-5 mg/kg intramuscularly. One hundred cases aged 2 to 13 years were studied. The actual procedure time ranged between 20 seconds and 3 minutes, adequate samples were obtained in 80% of children on first ...

BACKGROUND Our objective was to evaluate a powered bone marrow aspiration device for use in diagnosing disease and monitoring disease course and medical therapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS The device was used in accordance with practice guidelines and directions for use. Data collection included insertion success, time to insertion and complications. Patient pain levels were rated 0-10 (10 = extrem...

Abstract Background Multiple procedures (Lumbar puncture and bone marrow aspiration /biopsy) cause pain, stress, depression and etc for the patients and their families. Various methods have been recommended for pain reduction during invasive procedures. The aim of this study is to report the complications following general anesthesia. Materials and Methods In this prospective observational ...

We prospectively evaluated the percutaneous injection of autogenous bone marrow for the treatment of active simple bone cysts in ten consecutive children with cysts in the proximal humerus, proximal femur or tibia. The treatment included percutaneous biopsy, aspiration of fluid and the injection of autogenous bone marrow aspirated from the iliac crest. All the patients became painfree after a m...

Parvovirus B19 is the etiologic agent of erythema infectiosum (fifth disease), a fever-rash illness occurring in childhood. We present a 10 month old child with high grade fever for 10 days, generalized tonic-clonic seizure, bilateral cervical lymphadenopathy, generalized maculopapular rash, hematemesis and malena. Bone marrow aspiration and liver biopsy were done. EBV serology and parvovirus P...