myelodysplastic syndromes (mds) are a group of hematological disorders ranging from chronic refractory anemia to leukemia. there are some reports about association of mds with autoimmune disorders and vasculitis. in this study we describe a patient with mds and vasculitis presenting with central nervous system (cns) involvement. a clinical response to immunosuppressive therapy was also observed...

A 79-year-old male with unstable angina, who had myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), was treated with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). MDS causes refractory anemia accompanied by various degrees of granulocytopenia and thrombocytopenia. Pancytopenia caused by MDS may complicate patients with major infections and bleeding during cardiac surgery. There were very few patients with MDS who had u...

 Sequence dependent set-up times scheduling problems (SDSTs), availability constraint and transportation times are interesting and important issues in production management, which are often addressed separately. In this paper, the SDSTs job shop scheduling problem with position-based learning effects, job-dependent transportation times and multiple preventive maintenance activities is studied. ...

Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are a collection of hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) disorders that consist of blood cytopenias, marrow dysplasia, and a predisposition to acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Approximately 30% of MDS patients go on to develop aggressive AML. MDS is fatal in a majority of patients as a result of marrow failure, immune dysfunction, and/or transformation to overt leukemia. A...