The lung function of 21 patients with leukaemia (11 with acute myeloid leukaemia, six with acute lymphatic leukaemia, four with chronic myeloid leukaemia) and of five with severe aplastic anaemia was tested before and after allogenic bone marrow transplantation. Vital capacity (VC) was lowered in patients with leukaemia before transplantation. VC and FEV1 fell significantly after transplantatio...

The clinical importance of bone marrow transplantation has increased considerably in recent decades. More than 450 centers for bone marrow transplantation now exist worldwide, performing more than 5000 transplantations per year. The number of transplant centers and patients has increased dramatically in Turkey in the last several years. When transplant donor and recipient are different individu...

OBJECTIVES Glutamine is an important fuel for intestinal mucosal epithelial cells, and it promotes intestinal mucosal cell differentiation and proliferation. Most liver transplantation (LT) patients suffer from intestinal barrier dysfunction. Whether enteral glutamine supplementation has beneficial effects on intestinal barrier function following LT is not known. We investigated the effect of g...

Case report A 36 year old white man had a 20 year history of severe intractable psoriasis that required numerous admissions to hospital for inpatient treatment. He had long periods of erythrodermic psoriasis and underwent many forms of treatment, including psoralens and ultraviolet A, methotrexate, razoxane, and etretinate, in an attempt to control his psoriasis. In November 1984 he developed a...

The gastrointestinal tract is the second most commonly involved organ system in graft versus host disease (GvHD) following allogeneic stem cell transplantation, and its involvement is associated with a worse prognosis [1,2]. White light endoscopy findings are nonspecific and often unhelpful in the diagnosis of GvHD and evaluation of its response to therapy. Conventional histological examination...

background:  allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-hsct) is used as treatment of choice for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (aml). we aimed to evaluate the prognostic factors in 2-year overall survival of patients with non-m3 aml who underwent allogenic hsct. methods: this is a cross sectional retrospective study. demographic data and study of variables such as age, sex,...