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Autore F, Visentin A, Deodato M, Vitale C, Galli E, Fresa A, Fazzi R, Sanna A, Olivieri J, Scortechini I, Del Principe MI, Sportoletti P, Schiattone L, Maschio N, Facchinelli D, Marchesi F, Coscia M, Tedeschi A, Trentin L, Innocenti I, Candoni A, Busca A, Pagano L, Laurenti L. Venetoclax infectious risk score to identify patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia at high infectious risk during venetoclax treatment: A multicenter SEIFEM study. Am J Hematol 2024; 99:982-984. [PMID: 38343033 DOI: 10.1002/ajh.27247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2023] [Revised: 01/20/2024] [Accepted: 01/22/2024] [Indexed: 04/09/2024]
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- Francesco Autore
- Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italy
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- ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy
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- A.O.U. Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino e Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Molecolari e Scienze per la Salute, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy
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- Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italy
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- Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italy
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- Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy
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- Oncoematologia Istituto Oncologico Veneto IOV-IRCCS, Padova, Italy
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- A.O.U. Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino e Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Molecolari e Scienze per la Salute, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy
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- Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italy
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- Clinica Ematologia di Udine, Udine, Italy
- Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
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- A.O.U. Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino e Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Molecolari e Scienze per la Salute, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy
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- Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italy
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- Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italy
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Barcellini W, Zaninoni A, Fattizzo B, Giannotta JA, Lunghi M, Ferrari A, Leporace AP, Maschio N, Scaramucci L, Cantoni S, Chiurazzi F, Consonni D, Rossi G, De Fabritiis P, Gaidano G, Zanella A, Cortelezzi A. Predictors of refractoriness to therapy and healthcare resource utilization in 378 patients with primary autoimmune hemolytic anemia from eight Italian reference centers. Am J Hematol 2018; 93:E243-E246. [PMID: 29981267 DOI: 10.1002/ajh.25212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2018] [Revised: 06/19/2018] [Accepted: 06/20/2018] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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- Wilma Barcellini
- UO Ematologia; Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico; Milan Italy
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- UO Ematologia; Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico; Milan Italy
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- UO Ematologia; Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico; Milan Italy
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- SCDU Ematologia, Dipartimento di Medicina Traslazionale; Università del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro; Novara Italy
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- UO Ematologia, Ospedale Sant'Andrea; Facoltà di Medicina e Psicologia, Università "Sapienza"; Rome Italy
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- UO Ematologia, Ospedale Sant'Andrea; Facoltà di Medicina e Psicologia, Università "Sapienza"; Rome Italy
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- UO Trasfusionale e immunologia; Centro Regionale Malattie del Sangue; Castelfranco Veneto Italy
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- SC Ematologia; Niguarda Cancer Center, ASST Niguarda; Milan Italy
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- UO Epidemiologia; Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico; Milan Italy
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- SCDU Ematologia, Dipartimento di Medicina Traslazionale; Università del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro; Novara Italy
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- UO Ematologia; Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico; Milan Italy
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- UO Ematologia; Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico; Milan Italy
- Università degli Studi di Milano; Milan Italy
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Tagariello G, Sartori R, Radossi P, Maschio N, Risato R, Stasi R. Romiplostim for the early management of severe immune thrombocytopenia unresponsive to conventional treatment. Br J Haematol 2011; 157:256-8. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2011.08950.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [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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Cabrelle A, Maschio N, Carraro S, Frezzato F, Binotto G, Gattazzo C, Miorin M, Agostini C, Zambello R, Pandolfi F, Semenzato G, Trentin L. Apoptotic effect of cyclosporin a and dexamethasone in malignant cells of patients with B-chronic lymphocytic leukemia. J BIOL REG HOMEOS AG 2009; 23:239-250. [PMID: 20003763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
Abstract
B-chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) is a malignant disorder characterized by the accumulation of the leukemic cells in the G0-G1 phase of the cell cycle and expressing high levels of the anti-apoptotic protein Bcl-2. Since we observed that the treatment of autoimmune complications with Cyclosporine A (CsA) determined in some CLL patients an improvement not only of the autoimmune phenomena, but also of the leukemic process, we evaluated the in vitro cytotoxicity of CsA as compared to Dexamethasone (Dex) on leukemic cells. Leukemic cells obtained from 32 B-CLL patients showed a heterogeneous pattern of spontaneous apoptosis at 24 h interval and this pattern permitted to identify: Group 1 (14/32) with high (>20%) apoptotic rate and Group 2 (18/32) with low cell death. CsA and Dex increased cell death in both groups with a different timing by an apoptotic mechanism that does not involve Bcl-2. Furthermore, in Group 2, CsA-induced apoptosis was significant higher than that observed with Dex both at 4 and 24 h. We suggest that, in B-CLL, CsA has a significant pro-apoptotic activity manifested also in patients with low spontaneous apoptosis. Our observations might be taken into account to consider new therapeutic strategies in B-CLL.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Anti-Inflammatory Agents/pharmacology
- Apoptosis/drug effects
- Cyclosporine/pharmacology
- Dexamethasone/pharmacology
- Female
- G1 Phase/drug effects
- Gene Expression Regulation, Leukemic/drug effects
- Humans
- Immunosuppressive Agents/pharmacology
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/drug therapy
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/metabolism
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2/biosynthesis
- Resting Phase, Cell Cycle/drug effects
- Time Factors
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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Affiliation(s)
- A Cabrelle
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Hematology and Clinical Immunology Branch, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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Trentin L, Miorin M, Facco M, Baesso I, Carraro S, Cabrelle A, Maschio N, Bortoli M, Binotto G, Piazza F, Adami F, Zambello R, Agostini C, Semenzato G. Multiple myeloma plasma cells show different chemokine receptor profiles at sites of disease activity. Br J Haematol 2007; 138:594-602. [PMID: 17686053 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2007.06686.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [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: 11/29/2022]
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Chemokines and their receptors play a pivotal role in the regulation of B-lymphocyte trafficking. This study was aimed at investigating the pattern of chemokine receptor expression, including CCR1 to CCR3, CCR5 to CCR7, CXCR1 to CXCR5, and the migration ability of multiple myeloma (MM) plasma cells (PC). PC were recovered from the bone marrow (BM) of 29 MM patients, extramedullary sites of 10 patients and the BM of five controls. Flow cytometry analysis showed that the receptors mainly expressed on malignant BM PC were represented by CXCR4 (70% of patients), CCR1 (25%), CCR2 (25%), CCR5 (17%) and CXCR3 (20%), while other receptors were commonly lacking. The analysis performed on extramedullary (peripheral blood and pleural effusion) malignant PC demonstrated that the most represented receptors were CXCR4 (100%), CCR2 (66%) and CXCR1 (60%). The migratory capability of malignant PC at resting conditions identified three groups of patients with different migration (low, intermediate and high). As CXCR4 was the relevant chemokine receptor expressed by MM PC, its ligand CXCL12 induced their migration. These data suggest that malignant PC from MM display different chemokine receptor profiles and that CXCR4 is fully functional and might play a role in the spreading of the disease.
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- Livio Trentin
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Hematology and Clinical Immunology Branch, Padua University School of Medicine, Padua, Italy
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Terrin L, Trentin L, Degan M, Corradini I, Bertorelle R, Carli P, Maschio N, Bo MD, Noventa F, Gattei V, Semenzato G, De Rossi A. Telomerase expression in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia predicts survival and delineates subgroups of patients with the same igVH mutation status and different outcome. Leukemia 2007; 21:965-72. [PMID: 17344921 DOI: 10.1038/sj.leu.2404607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [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: 11/08/2022]
Abstract
Activation of telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) is essential for unlimited cell growth and plays a critical role in tumorigenesis. We investigated hTERT gene expression in 134 B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) cases and evaluated its prognostic value with other prognostic markers (IgVH mutation status, CD38 and ZAP-70 expression). Real-time PCR assays to quantify either all hTERT transcripts (AT) or only the full length (FL) transcript encoding the functional protein were developed. hTERT-AT levels strongly correlated with hTERT-FT levels (r=0.743, P<0.0001); both inversely correlated with the percentage of IgVH mutation (P<0.005) and were significantly higher in unmutated than in mutated cases (P=0.004 and P=0.001, respectively). The hTERT values which best discriminated between the unmutated and mutated IgVH cases were 150 and 40 copies for hTERT-AT and hTERT-FL, respectively. Using these cut-off values, there was a significant difference in the survival of patients with high or low hTERT levels (P<0.0001). Unmutated cases with low hTERT levels had an overall survival close to mutated cases with high hTERT levels. Thus, this work identifies hTERT-RNA level as a new prognostic marker in B-CLL, and may be used to identify previously unrecognized patient groups with the same IgVH mutation status and different disease outcomes.
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- L Terrin
- Section of Oncology, Department of Oncology and Surgical Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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- G Semenzato
- Padua University School of Medicine, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Italy
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