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An 18-year-old man, admitted because of severe bleeding manifestations due to varicella thrombocytopenia was administered 800 mg/day adenine arabinoside (Ara-A) intravenously for 5 days. 2 days after the start of this treatment the bleeding phenomena became markedly reduced and a progressive

A boy 13 year-old suffered an extremely severe and prolonged attack of hemorrhagic chickenpox with visceral involvement, the diagnosis being confirmed by isolation of varicella-zoster-virus (VZV). There was no other compromising disease. All preceding vaccinations including two against smallpox had

A pregnant woman was diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia at 38 weeks of gestation. Induction of labor was successful, and the patient delivered a healthy male baby. Soon after delivery, she was treated with chemotherapy using all-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA). The number of white blood cells

The authors summarize their experience with the administration of small doses of cytosine arabinoside continuously by subcutaneous infusion in 13 patients with myelodysplastic syndrome. Alcysten Spofa was administered in doses of 20 mg/sq.m per day for 5-17 days in one cycle. A total of 26

The purpose of this study is to determine the efficacy of low dose cytosine arabinoside (LD Ara-C) as an alternative treatment to conventional cytotoxic induction chemotherapy in childhood acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). Four children with APL in poor medical condition prior to chemotherapy were

Eighteen children with refractory acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) who had been heavily pretreated, were treated with combination etoposide and cytosine arabinoside (ara-C) chemotherapy. Seventeen of these 18 patients were in their first to third relapses; the remaining patient had never responded

Refractory/relapsed acute leukemia has always been a challenging problem for hematologist. Over the past decade emphasis has been made in the development of regimens containing fludarabine, combined with cytosine arabinoside for the treatment of refractory/relapsed acute leukemias. The aim of this

Twenty-one patients with acute nonlymphocytic leukemia were treated with a regimen including daunorubicin, cytosine arabinoside, and 6-thioguanine and 15 patients (71%) achieved a complete remission. Thirteen of the 15 remissions occurred after a single course of therapy and two after two courses of

A retrospective clinical study was performed to determine the clinical impact of neutropenic enterocolitis (NE) in adult patients with acute leukemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma treated with cytosine arabinoside (Ara-C)-containing regimens. The diagnosis of NE was restricted to conditions with

Thirteen patients with de novo acute non-lymphocytic leukaemia (ANLL) refractory to standard chemotherapy for remission induction and 12 patients with ANLL in relapse were treated with low-dose cytosine arabinoside (LD ara-C) 10 mg/m2 subcutaneously every 12 hours for 21 days. Five of 13 patients

The effectiveness of MFC (mitomycin C, 5-fluorouracil and cytosine arabinoside) therapy for nonresectable cancers and cancers recurring after surgery was investigated in 60 patients with solid cancers aged 26 to 69 years. Treatment was effective in 28 patients (47%) including seven (12%) who showed

The efficacy of low-dose cytosine arabinoside (Ara-C) and aggressive chemotherapy was assessed in 67 patients with advanced myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). In most cases, treatment was started because of worsening peripheral cytopenia, increase in bone marrow blasts, or transition of MDS to acute

One hundred and nine consecutive patients with de novo acute nonlymphocytic leukemia aged over 56 years were admitted with the intention of administering high-dose cytosine arabinoside (HD Ara-C) intensification. After remission induction, the patients were consolidated with a course of daunorubicin

Twenty-four patients with Philadelphia positive (Ph +) chronic myelogenous leukemia including 12 who were previously untreated, received recombinant interferon alpha-2a (IFN) (5 × 10(6) U/m(2)/d) and hydroxyurea (HU) (50 mg/kg/d) at the induction phase. Low dose cytosine arabinoside (Ara-C) (10-20

High-dose (HD) cytosine arabinoside (ARA-C) is more effective treatment than conventional-dose ARA-C regimens for patients with relapsed acute nonlymphocytic leukemia (ANLL). We report here that HD ARA-C given during the first remission of ANLL has resulted in long remission durations and a high