68 research outputs found
Fusobacterium nucleatum: a rare cause of bacteremia in neutropenic patients with leukemia and lymphoma
Although anaerobic bacteremias are uncommon in oncohematologic patients, nevertheless they have been considered an emergent problem in the last few years. Fusobacterium nucleatum is an anaerobic Gram-negative bacillus commonly present in the oral cavity and in the respiratory and genito-urinary tracts. Over a 10-year period 18 episodes of F. nucleatum bacteremia in patients with hematological malignances (15 leukemias and 3 lymphomas) have been observed in our Department of Hematology. Predisposing factors included oropharyngeal mucositis and severe neutropenia owing to intensive chemotherapy. In our experience no septic shock occurred and the outcome of bacteremias caused by F. nucleatum was favorable
Treatment of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia elderly patients in the Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor era.
Clinical effects of 5-azacitidine five days/monthly schedale in three symptomatic low-risk (IPSS: 0 – 1) myelodisplastic patients.
Complete haematological response after low dose rituximab in a patient with refractory warm-type autoimmune haemolytic anemia.
Clinical effects of 5-azacitidine five days/monthly schedale in three symptomatic low-risk (IPSS: 0 – 1) myelodisplastic patients.
D1CLEARANCE OF HEPATITIS B VIRUS INFECTION IN A PATIENT RECEIVING ALLOGENEIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION FROM AN HBV NAIVE DONOR.
INTRA BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION OF UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL: A REPORT OF TWO CASES.
SUSTAINED LONG TERM COMPLETE HAEMATOLOGICAL RESPONSE WITH LOW DOSE RITUXIMAB IN A PATIENT WITH REFRACTORY WARM-TYPE AUTOIMMUNE HAEMOLYTIC ANAEMIA.
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