background: anti-hla-antibodies are known to affect the allograft survival in transplant recipient patients. objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the association between anti-hla antibodies and kidney allograft outcomes, particularly in recipients with concur-rent donor bone marrow cell infusion (dbmi). methods: between june 2006 and may 2007, forty living unrelated donor kidney tra...

Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is a technique used in the treatment of leukemia, lymphoma, aplastic anemia, multiple myeloma, immune deficiency disorders, and certain solid tumors such as breast and ovarian carcinoma. It is a salvage technique that permits high-dose, myelosuppressive chemotherapy to be given, achieving greater response rates to therapy. After giving high-dose therapy, treati...

The purpose of this prospective study was to evaluate Whole Body-MRI as a screening tool for bone marrow imaging in patients with multiple myeloma and monoclonal gammopathy. 22 cancer patients at initial diagnosis underwent Whole Body-MRI and conventional radiography in order to detect bone and bone marrow abnormalities. MRI was performed using a turbo-STIR-sequence combined with a rolling tabl...

objective(s):sea cucumber derived bioactive compound is considered efficient in treatment of bone disorders. this study was performed   to evaluate the effect of this extract on differentiation of rat bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (rbmmsc) into osteogenic lineage. materials and methods: isolated rbmmsc were grown in dmem supplemented with 10% fbs. the cells were exposed to different concen...

background: langerhans' cell histiocytosis (lch) is a reactive proliferative disease of unknown pathogenesis characterized by proliferation of langerhans cells. involvement of bone marrow (bm), liver and lung are related to high risk factors and poor survival. the aim of this report is to highlight the clinical and haematological findings of 5 cases of lch with bm infiltration which may help to...

We report a case of metastatic liposarcoma in the bone marrow with a rapidly fatal course. In view of the poor prognosis and paucity of clinical and imaging findings in patients with high-grade liposarcoma that is metastatic to bone marrow, we propose that bone marrow examination should be performed during the patient's initial evaluation as well as follow-up examinations.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is increasingly being used in the diagnostic work-up of patients with multiple myeloma. Since 2014, MRI findings are included in the new diagnostic criteria proposed by the International Myeloma Working Group. Patients with smouldering myeloma presenting with more than one unequivocal focal lesion in the bone marrow on MRI are considered having symptomatic myelo...

intoduction: therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals are radiolabeled molecules to deliver sufficient doses of ionizing radiation to specific disease sites such as bone metastases, brain and liver tumors and bone marrows malignancies including multiple myeloma. among some therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals, 166ho-1,4,7,10 -tetraazacyclo dodecane-1,4,7,10 tetraethylene phosphonic acid (166ho-dotmp) is us...

It is well known that hematopoietic cytokine stimulation can cause increased fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) accumulation in bone marrow on PET/CT imaging, which simulates that seen in patients with bone marrow metastases. However, increased bone marrow FDG uptake can be caused by other etiologies. We report a patient with operated renal cell carcinoma had no history of hematopoietic cytokine stimulat...

BACKGROUND Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is highly useful for detecting diseases of the bone marrow. The sensitivity for detecting compression fracture is very high, but specificity is low for differential diagnosis between malignant and benign cases. PURPOSE To evaluate the usefulness of in-phase/opposed-phase and short TI inversion recovery (STIR) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of bone...