A 71-year-old woman presented with a high-grade fever, neck pain, anemia and thrombocytopenia. After performing further examinations, we concluded that she had simultaneously developed large vessel vasculitis and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Although glucocorticoid administration improved her clinical symptoms, the MDS transformed into acute myeloid leukemia and she died one year after recei...

Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is a complication of conventional antineoplastic therapy but has rarely been reported after autologous bone marrow transplantation (ABMT). We reviewed records of 206 patients who underwent ABMT for lymphoma at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN) between 1974 and 1993. Of 206 patients who underwent ABMT for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) or Hodgkin's diseas...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to examine the Minimum Data Set (MDS) and Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) as measures of depression among nursing home residents. METHODS The data for this study were baseline, pre-intervention assessment data from a research study involving nine nursing homes and 704 residents in Massachusetts. Trained research nurses assessed residents using the M...

Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are a group of heterogeneous hematologic diseases. Chromosomal aberrations are important for the initiation, development, and progression of MDS. Detection of chromosomal abnormalities in MDS is important for categorization, risk stratification, therapeutic selection, and prognosis evaluation of the disease. Recent progress of multiple techniques has brought powe...

Attracting new customers and retaining existing users are critical for the success of new information systems such as mobile data services (MDS). Thus, it is important to understand the formation process of behavior toward MDS at different stages. However, relative little attention has been paid to the differences in the determinants of behavior toward MDS between potential adopters and experie...

Recommendations for revision of the original version of Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) were published based on its critique. Subsequently, a Movement Disorders Society (MDS)sponsored revision designated as the Movement Disorder Society-Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) was presented. After its successful clinimetric testing, a program for translation and val...

Objective: To explore the role of growth differentiation factor 11 (GDF11) in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) in erythropoietic functions. Methods: The serum GDF11 in MDS patients was measured using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The percentage of nucleated erythroid cells (CD235a) in bone marrow was detected via flow cytometry. The correlation between these changes and eryt...

Since 2001, cases of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDSs) have been tracked by cancer registries. Examining registry data in the USA, the reported age-adjusted incidence of MDS per 100,000 was 3.3 per year for 2001-2003 and 4.9 per year for 2007-2011, with increases likely a result of growing awareness of reporting requirements. However, active case-finding methods repeatedly demonstrate that popul...

Previously, Multimer Detection System (MDS) detected scrapie infected lambs of 8 mo age at pre-clinical stage in comparison with the normal controls. Above lamb were born from scrapie infected parent sheep (VRQ/VRQ). Here, MDS was challenged twice blindly with scrapie sheep blood samples from pre-clinical stages. These sheep showed no symptoms and they died of scrapie after 24 mo or more. Both ...