High-dose therapy with autologous hematopoietic progenitor cell support is effective treatment for patients with a variety of high-risk malignancies. Accelerating of marrow recovery from near-lethal or lethal toxicity with hematopoietic cell support improves the safety and cost effectiveness of the high-dose regimens. Peripheral blood progenitor cells will soon replace marrow as the major sourc...

This literature review presents data on the influence of serotonin metabolism bone tissue. The mechanisms by which affects formation and resorption bone, depending site synthesis (central or peripheral), as well cells receptor subtypes that are activated, have been considered. A number issues for further research highlighted, in particular, dose-response relationship side effects during chronic...

 ABSTRACTBackground: Radioprotective effects of famotidine, an antagonist of H2 receptor clinically used for peptic ulcer treatment, was previously shown on radiation-induced micronuclei and chromosomal aberration in human peripheral blood lymphocytes and mouse bone marrow cells. This study was conducted to investigate radioprotective property of famotidine against radiation induced apoptosis i...

Background: Medical diagnostic procedures such as X-ray and computed Tomography (CT) scan account for considerable percent of patient's exposure to ionizing radiation. The exposure of cells to Ionization radiation results in induction of DNA damage and chromosomal aberrations. Contrast media (CM) are widely used in diagnostic radiology and CT scan. The aim of this study was to study adverse gen...

background: chemo-immunotherapy is one of the new achievements for treatment of cancer, by which the success of anti-cancer therapy can be increased. in vitro studies have been shown that arteether (are) induces apoptosis in tumor cells, but not in normal cells. objective: to investigate the cytotoxic and immunomodulatory properties of arteether in-vivo and in-vitro. methods: in this study, we ...

A variety of regimens of high-dose chemotherapy with hematopoietic stem cell support for poor risk germ cell tumors have been established. However, a series of chemotherapy steps carried out prior to the harvest sometimes leads to an insufficient number of peripheral blood stem cells. Here, we report a case of a patient who successfully underwent high-dose chemotherapy for the treatment of poor...

OBJECTIVES We sought to determine whether treatment with high dose verapamil prevents restenosis in patients at high risk for reoccurrence after successful percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA). BACKGROUND Restenosis is the major limitation of PTCA. Calcium antagonists have demonstrated some potential as inhibitors of this process. METHODS A total of 98 patients with periphe...

Symmetrical peripheral gangrene (SPG) is an uncommon but devastating complication in critically ill patients with a high mortality. It is seen in a wide variety of medical conditions, presenting as symmetrical gangrene of two or more extremities without large vessel obstruction. We hereby report a 65-year-old woman diagnosed of having E. coli bacteremia with urosepsis, who presented with acute ...

Between June 1989 and June 1992, 144 patients participated in sequential clinical trials using peripheral blood progenitor cells (PBC) as their sole source of hematopoietic rescue following high-dose chemotherapy. All patients had received prior extensive combination chemotherapy and had marrow defects that precluded autologous bone marrow transplantation (ABMT). PBC were collected according to...

Three patients developed peripheral neuropathy after taking amiodarone for more than 18 months. All had high serum concentrations of amiodarone and its desethyl metabolite; in one patient concentrations in a sural nerve biopsy were 80 times higher than in serum. Peripheral neuropathy is a complication of large doses of amiodarone taken over long periods.