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Multiple myeloma (MM) is characterized as a clonal expansion of malignant plasma cells in the bone marrow, which is often associated with pancytopenia and osteolytic bone disease. Interestingly, myeloma-infiltrated bone marrow is considered to be hypoxic, providing selection pressure for a
A 65 year old man presented with fever, pancytopenia, hypoxemia, and cardiovascular collapse requiring intensive care unit admission. Computed tomographic pulmonary angiogram showed a right-sided mediastinal mass adjacent to the right atrium. The patient had a video-assisted thoracoscopic surgical
A 64-year-old man was admitted to our hospital complaining of dyspnea and fever. He had been treated with low-dose methotrexate for rheumatoid arthritis. Chest radiography showed diffuse ground-glass attenuation in both lung fields, and hypoxia was detected. Pneumosystis carinii pneumonia was
OBJECTIVE
Preclinical data suggest that combining the mTOR/hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) inhibitor temsirolimus and the antiangiogenesis antibody bevacizumab may augment antitumor activity as well as resensitize cells to anthracyclines.
METHODS
We initiated a phase I study of bevacizumab and
A female rheumatoid arthritis patient was admitted for productive cough and general fatigue that had gradually developed after leflunomide therapy. Side effects including severe hypoxia, thrombocytopenia, lymphocytopenia, and macrocytic anemia with schistocytes (probably drug-induced megaloblastic
METHODS
A 26-month-old previously healthy boy of 15 kg was admitted to our hospital due to cyanosis following the aspiration of lamp oil. Aspiration resulted from the patient's father inducing emesis by digital stimulation of the boy's throat after the patient had ingested an unknown amount of lamp
Transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) is a severe pulmonary complication following blood transfusions. We experienced a case of possible TRALI during the course of EBV-associated hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (EBV-HLH). A 19-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital suffering from
BACKGROUND
In endemic regions, histoplasmosis is often seen in hosts with defective cell mediated immunity. We report a case of disseminated histoplasmosis in a patient with common variable immunodeficiency (CVID), a disorder mainly characterized by B cell defects.
METHODS
A 35 year old male with
Fatal cytomegalovirus (CMV) myocarditis occurred in a 2 year old boy with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in remission. The patient showed mild hepatic dysfunction and a rapid progress of pancytopenia after complete remission had been achieved. At the fifth week of complete remission, he
Effects and side-effects of treating patients with rheumatoid arthritis with methotrexate given as weekly pulse-treatment are examined in an open observation study. One hundred and ten consecutive patients with active rheumatoid arthritis entered the study. Six criteria of remission were registered
BACKGROUND
A 29-year-old man, who underwent allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) for acute non lymphoid leukemia (ANLL), presented with blood pancytopenia and mild hypoxemia on day +39, without signs of acute graft versus host disease (GVHD).
RESULTS
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) antigens were
BACKGROUND
Although the ingestion of a dose of colchicine lower than 0.5 mg/kg is usually complicated by a mortality rate less than 5%, severe complications may be associated with drug-drug interactions in case of overdose combining other drugs.
METHODS
A 33-year-old previously healthy woman was
Patient 1: A 48-year-old man was admitted to Osaka Red Cross Hospital because of fever and dyspnea. Laboratory examination revealed pancytopenia, liver dysfunction and hematostatic abnormality. Chest radiographs obtained on admission revealed ground-glass opacity in both lung fields, and an analysis
The macromolecular polymer, methyl cellulose (MC), is a known hepatosplenomegalic agent which promotes a state of experimental hypersplenism in rats. This is characterized by massive splenomegaly, pancytopenia of the blood elements, medullary hypoplasia, and marked gross and histologic alteration of
Hydroxyurea can increase fetal hemoglobin (HbF) and improve the clinical course of sickle cell disease (SCD) patients. However, several issues of hydroxyurea therapy remain unresolved, including differences in patients' drug clearance, predictability of drug response, reversibility of sickle cell