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Gyarmati P, Kjellander C, Aust C, Song Y, Öhrmalm L, Giske CG. Metagenomic analysis of bloodstream infections in patients with acute leukemia and therapy-induced neutropenia. Sci Rep 2016; 6:23532. [PMID: 26996149 PMCID: PMC4800731 DOI: 10.1038/srep23532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2016] [Accepted: 03/08/2016] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Leukemic patients are often immunocompromised due to underlying conditions, comorbidities and the effects of chemotherapy, and thus at risk for developing systemic infections. Bloodstream infection (BSI) is a severe complication in neutropenic patients, and is associated with increased mortality. BSI is routinely diagnosed with blood culture, which only detects culturable pathogens. We analyzed 27 blood samples from 9 patients with acute leukemia and suspected BSI at different time points of their antimicrobial treatment using shotgun metagenomics sequencing in order to detect unculturable and non-bacterial pathogens. Our findings confirm the presence of bacterial, fungal and viral pathogens alongside antimicrobial resistance genes. Decreased white blood cell (WBC) counts were associated with the presence of microbial DNA, and was inversely proportional to the number of sequencing reads. This study could indicate the use of high-throughput sequencing for personalized antimicrobial treatments in BSIs.
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- P Gyarmati
- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Alfred Nobels Allé 8, Stockholm, 17177 Sweden.,Karolinska University Hospital, Department of Clinical Microbiology L2:02, Stockholm, 17176 Sweden
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- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Stockholm, 17176 Sweden
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- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medicine, Solna, Infectious Diseases Unit, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, 17176 Sweden
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- Royal Institute of Technology, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm, 17176 Sweden
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- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medicine, Solna, Infectious Diseases Unit, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, 17176 Sweden
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- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Alfred Nobels Allé 8, Stockholm, 17177 Sweden.,Karolinska University Hospital, Department of Clinical Microbiology L2:02, Stockholm, 17176 Sweden
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Zheng Y, Keole S, Liu Y, Ding X, Aust C, Campbell J, Zeidan O. Dosimetric Comparison Between IMRT and Uniform Scanning Proton Therapy for Prostate Cancer Treatment. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.07.2259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Mascia A, Aust C, Schieber B, Baker L, Riley S, Hinten Z, Johnson R, Keole S, Zeidan O. Investigation of Lateral Decubitus Immobilization Techniques in order to Increase the Flexibility of Fixed Beamline Proton Therapy Systems. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.06.1581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Ehrenreich H, Hinze-Selch D, Stawicki S, Aust C, Knolle-Veentjer S, Wilms S, Heinz G, Erdag S, Jahn H, Degner D, Ritzen M, Mohr A, Wagner M, Schneider U, Bohn M, Huber M, Czernik A, Pollmächer T, Maier W, Sirén AL, Klosterkötter J, Falkai P, Rüther E, Aldenhoff JB, Krampe H. Improvement of cognitive functions in chronic schizophrenic patients by recombinant human erythropoietin. Mol Psychiatry 2007; 12:206-20. [PMID: 17033631 DOI: 10.1038/sj.mp.4001907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 186] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Schizophrenia is increasingly recognized as a neurodevelopmental disease with an additional degenerative component, comprising cognitive decline and loss of cortical gray matter. We hypothesized that a neuroprotective/neurotrophic add-on strategy, recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) in addition to stable antipsychotic medication, may be able to improve cognitive function even in chronic schizophrenic patients. Therefore, we designed a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized, multicenter, proof-of-principle (phase II) study. This study had a total duration of 2 years and an individual duration of 12 weeks with an additional safety visit at 16 weeks. Chronic schizophrenic men (N=39) with defined cognitive deficit (>or=1 s.d. below normal in the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS)), stable medication and disease state, were treated for 3 months with a weekly short (15 min) intravenous infusion of 40,000 IU rhEPO (N=20) or placebo (N=19). Main outcome measure was schizophrenia-relevant cognitive function at week 12. The neuropsychological test set (RBANS subtests delayed memory, language-semantic fluency, attention and Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST-64) - perseverative errors) was applied over 2 days at baseline, 2 weeks, 4 weeks and 12 weeks of study participation. Both placebo and rhEPO patients improved in all evaluated categories. Patients receiving rhEPO showed a significant improvement over placebo patients in schizophrenia-related cognitive performance (RBANS subtests, WCST-64), but no effects on psychopathology or social functioning. Also, a significant decline in serum levels of S100B, a glial damage marker, occurred upon rhEPO. The fact that rhEPO is the first compound to exert a selective and lasting beneficial effect on cognition should encourage new treatment strategies for schizophrenia.
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- H Ehrenreich
- Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Max-Planck-Institute of Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany.
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Ehrenreich H, Hinze-Selch D, Stawicki S, Aust C, Knolle-Veentjer S, Wilms S, Heinz G, Erdag S, Jahn H, Degner D, Ritzen M, Mohr A, Wagner M, Schneider U, Bohn M, Huber M, Czernik A, Pollmächer T, Maier W, Sirén AL, Klosterkötter J, Falkai P, Rüther E, Aldenhoff J, Krampe H. Hemoglobin-Independent Organ Protection by EPO in Humans: Amelioration of Cognitive Loss in Chronic Schizophrenia. J Am Soc Nephrol 2007. [DOI: 10.1681/asn.2006111278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Krampe H, Wagner T, Stawicki S, Bartels C, Aust C, Kroener-Herwig B, Kuefner H, Ehrenreich H. Personality disorder and chronicity of addiction as independent outcome predictors in alcoholism treatment. Psychiatr Serv 2006; 57:708-12. [PMID: 16675768 DOI: 10.1176/ps.2006.57.5.708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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OBJECTIVE A prospective four-year study examined which components of addiction severity predicted time to relapse among 112 adults with chronic alcoholism who participated in a comprehensive outpatient treatment program. METHODS Recruited from emergency, inpatient, and outpatient facilities, patients were admitted into the program consecutively between March 1998 and June 2002. Alcohol abstinence was carefully monitored for four years from admission by regular contacts and urine and blood analyses. Alcoholism characteristics and personality disorders were assessed with structured interviews and the International Diagnostic Checklists for Personality Disorders. RESULTS Among a variety of potential variables, only presence of a personality disorder and chronicity of addiction were independently associated with a decrease of cumulative four-year abstinence probability. CONCLUSIONS Their high predictive values suggest that chronicity and personality disorder rank among the most important characteristics of addiction severity.
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- Henning Krampe
- Division of Clinical Neuroscience at the Max-Planck-Institute of Experimental Medicine in Goettingen, Germany
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Krampe H, Stawicki S, Wagner T, Bartels C, Aust C, Rüther E, Poser W, Ehrenreich H. Follow-up of 180 Alcoholic Patients for up to 7 Years After Outpatient Treatment: Impact of Alcohol Deterrents on Outcome. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 2006; 30:86-95. [PMID: 16433735 DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2006.00013.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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OBJECTIVE (1) To perform a 9-year study of abstinence, lapse, and relapse in 180 chronic alcoholic patients, participants of the Outpatient Longterm Intensive Therapy for Alcoholics (OLITA); (2) To investigate the role of supervised alcohol deterrents (AD) in relapse prevention and as an adjunct for maintenance of long-term abstinence. METHOD This prospective open treatment study evaluates the long-term course of drinking outcomes and AD use of 180 chronic alcoholics consecutively admitted from 1993 to 2002. Subsamples are compared for (1) sham-AD versus verum-AD (disulfiram/calcium carbimide), (2) coped lapses versus finally detrimental lapses versus malignant relapses, and (3) AD use for 13 to 20 versus >20 months. RESULTS In this 9-year study, the cumulative probability of not having relapsed was 0.52, and that of not having consumed any alcohol was 0.26. Despite long-term use, disulfiram/calcium carbimide was well tolerated. Patients on sham-AD (due to contraindications to verum-AD) showed higher cumulative abstinence probability than patients on verum (S = 0.86 vs. S = 0.49, p = 0.03). Detrimental lapses and malignant relapses occurred earlier than successfully coped lapses (p < 0.001); patients with detrimental lapse and with malignant relapse had fewer days of AD intake and less subsequent days without AD than patients with coped lapse (p < 0.001). The cumulative abstinence probability was S = 0.75 for patients with long-term intake compared with S = 0.50 for patients who stopped AD between months 13 and 20 (p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS An abstinence rate of >50% in this 9-year study strongly supports the concept of comprehensive, long-term outpatient treatment of alcoholics. Supervised, guided intake of AD, also over extended periods, can be used as a predominantly psychologically acting ingredient of successful alcoholism therapy.
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- Henning Krampe
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Georg-August-University, and Max-Planck-Institute of Experimental Medicine, Goettingen, Germany
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With the increased life expectancy in western industrialized countries, the incidence and prevalence of brain diseases dramatically increased. Stroke and a wide spectrum of neuropsychiatric illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, traumatic head injury, and schizophrenia all lead to severe disability. However, targeted effective therapies for treatment of these diseases are lacking. Even more frustrating is the fact that we do not yet clearly understand the basic mechanisms underlying the disease processes in these conditions. We propose a hypothesis of loss of neuronal function via a final common deleterious pathway in this clinically very heterogeneous disease group. This review presents a novel neuroprotective concept for treatment of brain disease: Erythropoietin (EPO). EPO is a natural body-own-protein hormone that has been used for treatment of anemia for more than a decade. The neuroprotective approach using EPO in brain disease represents a totally new frontier. The "Göttingen EPO-stroke trial" represents the first effective use in man of a neuroprotective therapy in an acute brain disease while the experimental EPO therapy to combat cognitive decline in patients with schizophrenia will be introduced as an example of a neuroprotective strategy for a chronic brain disease.
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- Hannelore Ehrenreich
- Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory, Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany.
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Wagner T, Krampe H, Stawicki S, Reinhold J, Jahn H, Mahlke K, Barth U, Sieg S, Maul O, Galwas C, Aust C, Kröner-Herwig B, Brunner E, Poser W, Henn F, Rüther E, Ehrenreich H. Substantial decrease of psychiatric comorbidity in chronic alcoholics upon integrated outpatient treatment - results of a prospective study. J Psychiatr Res 2004; 38:619-35. [PMID: 15458858 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2004.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2004] [Revised: 04/16/2004] [Accepted: 04/22/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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It is far from clear how comorbidity changes during alcoholism treatment. This study investigates: (1) the course of comorbid Axis I disorders in chronic alcoholics over 2 years of controlled abstinence in the outpatient long-term intensive therapy for alcoholics (OLITA) and (2) the effect of comorbid Axis I and II disorders in this group of patients on subsequent drinking outcome over a four-year follow-up. This prospective treatment study evaluates psychiatric variables of 89 severely affected chronic alcohol dependent patients on admission (t(1)), month 6 (t(2)), 12 (t(3)) and 24 (t(4)). Drinking outcomes have been analyzed from 1998 to 2002. On admission, 61.8% of the patients met criteria for a comorbid Axis I disorder, 63.2% for a comorbid personality disorder. Axis I disorders remit from t(1) (59.0% ill), t(2) (38.5%), t(3) (28.2%) to t(4) (12.8%) (p < 0.0001). Anxiety disorders remit more slowly from t(1) (43.6%) to t(3) (20.5%, p = 0.0086), whereas mood disorders remit early between t(1) (23.1%) and t(2) (5.1%, p = 0.0387) with a slight transient increase at t(3) (10.3%). During the four-year follow-up, the cumulative probability of not having relapsed amounts to 0.59. Two predictors have a strong negative impact on abstinence probability: number of inpatient detoxifications (p = 0.0013) and personality disorders (p = 0.0106). The present study demonstrates a striking remission of comorbid Axis I disorders upon abstinence during comprehensive long-term outpatient alcoholism treatment. The presence of an Axis II rather than an Axis I disorder on admission strongly predicts drinking outcome over a four-year follow-up.
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- Thilo Wagner
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Georg-August-University, and Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany
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Wagner T, Krampe H, Stawicki S, Reinhold J, Jahn H, Mahlke K, Galwas C, Barth U, Aust C, Kröner-Herwig B, Brunner E, Poser W, Henn FA, Rüther E, Ehrenreich H. The course of psychiatric comorbidity in chronic alcoholics and its impact on abstinence during 4-year follow-up of integrated outpatient treatment. Pharmacopsychiatry 2004. [DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-825547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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- C. Aust
- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, PN 7-1, Hardenbergstr. 36, D-10623 Berlin, Germany; Fritz Haber Research Center and Department of Physical Chemistry, The Hebrew University, IL-91904 Jerusalem, Israel; and Institute of Polymers, Polymer Physics, ML H 18, Sonneggstr. 3, ETH Zentrum, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, PN 7-1, Hardenbergstr. 36, D-10623 Berlin, Germany; Fritz Haber Research Center and Department of Physical Chemistry, The Hebrew University, IL-91904 Jerusalem, Israel; and Institute of Polymers, Polymer Physics, ML H 18, Sonneggstr. 3, ETH Zentrum, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, PN 7-1, Hardenbergstr. 36, D-10623 Berlin, Germany; Fritz Haber Research Center and Department of Physical Chemistry, The Hebrew University, IL-91904 Jerusalem, Israel; and Institute of Polymers, Polymer Physics, ML H 18, Sonneggstr. 3, ETH Zentrum, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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Aust C. Handbook of sensors and actuators, volume 2, solid state magnetic sensors By C.S. Roumenin, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1994, xiii + 417 pp., US$148.50. ISBN 0-444-89401-2. Talanta 1997. [DOI: 10.1016/s0039-9140(97)80036-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Waller BF, Rothbaum DA, Pinkerton CA, Cowley MJ, Linnemeier TJ, Orr C, Irons M, Helmuth RA, Wills ER, Aust C. Status of the myocardium and infarct-related coronary artery in 19 necropsy patients with acute recanalization using pharmacologic (streptokinase, r-tissue plasminogen activator), mechanical (percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty) or combined types of reperfusion therapy. J Am Coll Cardiol 1987; 9:785-801. [PMID: 2951422 DOI: 10.1016/s0735-1097(87)80234-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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In acute myocardial infarction, myocardial salvage is dependent on rapid restoration of blood flow. Pharmacologic (streptokinase, recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator), mechanical (percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, guide wire perforation) or combined forms of reperfusion therapy can accomplish this goal, but their effects on infarcted myocardium and vessel occlusion site have not been compared at necropsy. The heart of 19 necropsy patients who had received various forms of acute reperfusion therapy was studied: 14 had pharmacologic or combined forms of reperfusion therapy (13 streptokinase and 1 tissue-type plasminogen activator, including 4 with combined balloon angioplasty) and 5 had had purely mechanical (balloon angioplasty) reperfusion therapy. Reperfusion was initially clinically successful in all 19 patients with the average time from onset of symptoms to reperfusion being 3.7 hours. Necropsy observations separated the 19 patients into distinct subgroups based on changes in the myocardium and infarct-related coronary arteries. Of the 19 patients, 14 (74%) had hemorrhagic myocardial infarction and they all received pharmacologic or combined forms of reperfusion therapy. The remaining five patients (26%) had nonhemorrhagic (anemic) infarction and were treated with balloon angioplasty therapy alone. Increased luminal cross-sectional area was present in 8 of 9 patients with acute balloon angioplasty but severe coronary atherosclerotic plaque remained in 9 of 10 patients without acute balloon angioplasty. Severe hemorrhage surrounded angioplasty sites in all four patients who also received streptokinase or tissue-type plasminogen activator. Severe bleeding at the angioplasty site compromised the dilated coronary lumen in one patient. No patient with angioplasty alone had intraplaque bleeding. Thus, acute coronary balloon angioplasty reperfusion therapy alone appears to avoid the potentially adverse effects of myocardial and intraplaque hemorrhage while simultaneously increasing luminal cross-sectional area at the site of acute occlusion.
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Boll I, Collmann H, Aust C. [Quantitative determination of human bone marrow proliferation kinetics during three culture days]. Blut 1975; 31:201-12. [PMID: 1174716 DOI: 10.1007/bf01633503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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In order to obtaon of human bone marrow cells, fresh bioptic material was homogenized and the cell suspensions were incubated for 72 hs in a fluid medium. After 24, 48 and 72 hs of incubation the total cell number of the culture was determined. At the same time differential counts of stained smears were performed. Both, erythrocytopoiesis and granulocytopoiesis showed regeneration, maturation, and an absolute increase of the number of precursors and of mature cells. The quantitative data obtained in vitro during 24 hs correspond with our data of kinetics obtained by observed mitotic duration and cell differential countings in vivo. However, after a longer cultivation time we found a diminution of divisible precursors, and an increase of mature erythroblasts as well as an excessibe survival of the PMNs.
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Boll I, Kötter R, Aust C. [Phytohaemagglutinin culture as a serial control of lymphoproliferative diseases (author's transl)]. Dtsch Med Wochenschr 1974; 99:678-84. [PMID: 4601034 DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1107824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
MESH Headings
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Antineoplastic Agents/therapeutic use
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
- Cells, Cultured
- Hodgkin Disease/diagnosis
- Hodgkin Disease/drug therapy
- Hodgkin Disease/pathology
- Hodgkin Disease/radiotherapy
- Humans
- Immunity, Cellular
- Lectins
- Leukocyte Count
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Lymphocytes/immunology
- Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse/diagnosis
- Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse/drug therapy
- Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse/pathology
- Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse/radiotherapy
- Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin/diagnosis
- Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin/drug therapy
- Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin/pathology
- Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin/radiotherapy
- Middle Aged
- Recurrence
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