Hodgkin's disease is one of the first cancerous diseases for which effective treatment options have been developed. While this disease still ended lethally earlier, the prognosis is very good today. This is particularly due to the radiation sensitivity of lymphoma. 80 % of the patients can be cured permanently. This article provides a comprehensive overview of the hematologic disease, the sympt...

Hodgkin's disease is one of the first cancerous diseases for which effective treatment options have been developed. While this disease still ended lethally earlier, the prognosis is very good today. This is particularly due to the radiation sensitivity of lymphoma. 80 % of the patients can be cured permanently. This article provides a comprehensive overview of the hematologic disease, the sympt...

A RELATIONSHIP between hematologic changes and cirrhosis of the liver has been shown experimentally” ‘ ‘ , 52 and 71 . 84 , 94 Many otherwise excellent studies are not completely satisfactory because the diagnoses of hepatic cirrhosis have not been verified by biopsy. The advantages of biopsy in the diagnosis ofhepatic diseases have been emphasized and illustrated by Hofbauer, Evans and Watson,...

T HE MODERN ERA ofprenatal testing for hematologic diseases began in 1974. Prior to that time, the only test available consisted of determination of fetal sex following amniocentesis in cases at risk for sex-linked disorders, such as the hemophilias. Methods for obtaining fetal blood in utero in ongoing pregnancies were initiated in 1974, and these developments led to the possibility of prenata...

Champlin and colleagues have elegantly summarized the concept of nonmyeloablative stem cell transplantation (NST), stressing the importance of this newly emerging procedure for the treatment of patients with life-threatening malignant hematologic and nonhematologic diseases. This review does not include a description of the safety and efficacy of NST for the treatment of many life-threatening n...

Hodgkin's disease is one of the first cancerous diseases for which effective treatment options have been developed. While this disease still ended lethally earlier, the prognosis is very good today. This is particularly due to the radiation sensitivity of lymphoma. 80 % of the patients can be cured permanently. This article provides a comprehensive overview of the hematologic disease, the sympt...

From the *Laboratory of MolecularAllergy & Immunology, National h;stitute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National h;stitutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland 20852; ~;Division of Hematologic Products, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Dn,g Administration, Bethesda, Maryland 20892; and the ~Laboratory of Mammalian Genes and Development, National Institute of Child Health ...

Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a heterogeneous autoimmune disease, which characterized by postsynaptic neuromuscular transmission defect, with antibodies directly targeting the acetylcholine receptor (AChR) or other structural proteins of junction. The majority MG cases are associated thymic pathologies, including thymoma, thyroiditis, diseases malignant hematologic neoplasia. present study reported...

Dear Editor, Colonization of H.pylori as a bacterial pathogen in the stomach can cause a number of gastric diseases, such as peptic ulcers, chronic gastritis and gastric cancer (1, 2). Over the past years, a series of systemic diseases has been reported to be potentially related to H. pylori infection, including cardiovascular, neurologic, hepatobiliary, dermatologic, endocrine and metabolic, i...