{"title":"Negative Expression of CD117 Predicted Inferior OS and PFS in Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia.","authors":"Jiangjun Yuan, Qiong Wang","doi":"10.1111/ijlh.14380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijlh.14380","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94050,"journal":{"name":"International journal of laboratory hematology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142484183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acute Mast Cell Leukemia With Complex Karyomorphism and Karyotypes.","authors":"Sha Li, Yantian Zhao","doi":"10.1111/ijlh.14384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijlh.14384","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A 51-year-old woman visited the emergency department because of intermittent fever for more than 2 weeks. Physical examination found symmetrical pitting edema of the extremities. Computed tomography and ultrasound showed multiple serous effusions and splenomegaly. A complete blood cell analysis showed moderate anemia and severe thrombocytopenia. Abnormal cells in a subsequent peripheral blood smear accounted for 5%. The bone marrow smear showed a large number of abnormal cells (69.5%), with large cell bodies and pseudopod protrusions. Huge multinucleated cells were visible. Nucleoli were visible in some nuclei, and mitotic figures were evident. The abnormal cells by peroxidase staining were negative, and the positive rate by periodic acid-Schiff staining was 62%. Bone marrow biopsy revealed diffuse infiltration of heterotypic cells (approximately 80%). Later, she was transferred to the hematology department. The phenotypes by flow cytometry were CD117bri+, CD30+, MPO-, CD2-, and CD25-. The molecular test for KIT gene mutation was negative, and multiple karyotypes were abnormal and complex. The final diagnosis was mast cell leukemia. The patient eventually died approximately 1 month after the diagnosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":94050,"journal":{"name":"International journal of laboratory hematology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142484178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hachem Zakaria Bouarroudj, Michaël Hardy, Thomas Lecompte, François Mullier
{"title":"Preanalytical Conditions Impact Fibrin Monomers but Not D-Dimer: A Study With Rigorous Comparisons of a Broad Range of Simulated Conditions.","authors":"Hachem Zakaria Bouarroudj, Michaël Hardy, Thomas Lecompte, François Mullier","doi":"10.1111/ijlh.14385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijlh.14385","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94050,"journal":{"name":"International journal of laboratory hematology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142484184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acute Myeloid Leukaemia With Morphologic and Immunophenotypic Differentiation to Acute Erythroid Leukaemia at the Time of Relapse.","authors":"Katie Liston, Vitaliy Mykytiv","doi":"10.1111/ijlh.14386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijlh.14386","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94050,"journal":{"name":"International journal of laboratory hematology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142484179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia (CML) in T-Lymphoblastic Blast Crisis With Near Early T Cell Progenitor (ETP) Immunophenotype.","authors":"Ke Xu, Evan Vistsaras, Rajeev Gupta","doi":"10.1111/ijlh.14383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijlh.14383","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94050,"journal":{"name":"International journal of laboratory hematology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142402496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Deepak K Mishra, Asish Rath, Mayur Parihar, Sushant S Vinarkar, Anirban Kundu
{"title":"Current Diagnosis of Bleeding Disorders in Lower Income Countries.","authors":"Deepak K Mishra, Asish Rath, Mayur Parihar, Sushant S Vinarkar, Anirban Kundu","doi":"10.1111/ijlh.14377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijlh.14377","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There have been considerable advances in diagnosing and treating bleeding disorders. But the scenario remains dismal in resource-constrained settings in low and lower-middle-income countries (LMICs). Seventy-five percent of the patients with inherited bleeding disorders do not get diagnosed in LMICs. In resource-constrained settings, infectious disease and malignancies take the major focus. Bleeding disorders do not get prioritised in LMICs, and this leads to underdiagnoses and suboptimal treatment. There are various challenges like financial status, inadequacy of health care infrastructure, lack of patient registry and lack of awareness across medical staff, general population and government stakeholders. The lack of skilled laboratory personnel and laboratory infrastructure for optimal bleeding disorder diagnosis adds on to the problem. World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) has been at the forefront in developing strategies to overcome some of these inadequacies; however, more active participation of the stakeholders including patients, medical professionals and policy makers is the need of the hour. This review highlights the different challenges in LMICs in diagnosing bleeding disorders, the gap between high-income countries and LMICs and the possible strategies in closing the gap.</p>","PeriodicalId":94050,"journal":{"name":"International journal of laboratory hematology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142402502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sara Sacchetti, Matteo Bellia, Valentina Zanotti, Luca Giacomini, Roberta Rolla
{"title":"Detection of a Lymphoproliferative Disorder With Suspected Scattergram Analysis Using the Mindray BC-6800 Plus Automated Hematology Analyzer: A Case Report.","authors":"Sara Sacchetti, Matteo Bellia, Valentina Zanotti, Luca Giacomini, Roberta Rolla","doi":"10.1111/ijlh.14378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijlh.14378","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94050,"journal":{"name":"International journal of laboratory hematology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142396301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prognostic Evaluation of Hemoglobin, Albumin, Lymphocyte, and Platelet (HALP) Score and Hematological Indices in Classic Hodgkin Lymphoma.","authors":"Pusem Patir, Kubra Cerci, Erdal Kurtoglu","doi":"10.1111/ijlh.14379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijlh.14379","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) constitutes 10% of all lymphoma diagnoses and accounts for 5% of lymphoma-related deaths. Accurate prognostication in HL remains crucial, particularly given that 10%-20% of patients may receive either insufficient or excessive treatment. This study investigates the effect of hemoglobin, albumin, lymphocyte, and platelet (HALP) score, which is a marker of inflammation status and nutrition, at the time of diagnosis for the patients with HL on prognosis.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>A total of 147 patients diagnosed with cHL were included in the study, and their data were analyzed retrospectively. The significance of the HALP score and hematological indices [neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), lymphocyte-monocyte ratio (LMR), and platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR)] as predictors of overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS) was evaluated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Patients were grouped according to median values for the HALP score and hematological indices. High HALP score (p = 0.034), low NLR (p = 0.033), high LMR (p = 0.003), and low PLR (p = 0.014) were statistically significant in the early-stage favorable group. DFS and OS were not statistically significant according to the HALP score NLR, LMR, and PLR groups.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The need for readily applicable, reliable prognostic markers in cHL, where immunotherapy treatments have led to significantly improved survival outcomes, remains persistent.</p>","PeriodicalId":94050,"journal":{"name":"International journal of laboratory hematology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142396303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nik Fatma Fairuz Nik Mohd Hasan, Sandra J G Arkesteijn, Jeanet Ter Huurne, Maaike Verschuren, Sharda Bhagwandien-Bisoen, Rianne Schaap, Linda Vijfhuizen, Hakima El Idrissi, Tamara T Koopmann, Cornelis L Harteveld
{"title":"Alpha Thalassemia Screening in Multiethnic Population in Northern Europe Using Hb Bart's Immunochromatographic Test.","authors":"Nik Fatma Fairuz Nik Mohd Hasan, Sandra J G Arkesteijn, Jeanet Ter Huurne, Maaike Verschuren, Sharda Bhagwandien-Bisoen, Rianne Schaap, Linda Vijfhuizen, Hakima El Idrissi, Tamara T Koopmann, Cornelis L Harteveld","doi":"10.1111/ijlh.14381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijlh.14381","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94050,"journal":{"name":"International journal of laboratory hematology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142396300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gursan Gunes Uygun, Sena Ebru Caglar, Kemal Tutkavul, Esra Gurdal Kosem, Yunus Karakoc
{"title":"Investigation of Hemorheological Parameters in Ischemic Stroke Patients.","authors":"Gursan Gunes Uygun, Sena Ebru Caglar, Kemal Tutkavul, Esra Gurdal Kosem, Yunus Karakoc","doi":"10.1111/ijlh.14373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijlh.14373","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The aim of this study is to determine whether there are any changes in hemorheological parameters, including whole blood viscosity (WBV), plasma viscosity, erythrocyte aggregation, and erythrocyte deformability, in acute ischemic stroke patients, and to establish their relationship with stroke etiology. The study also aims to observe the changes in these parameters, if any, over time and after treatment, and to assess the correlation between risk factors for ischemic stroke and neuroimaging findings.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This was a prospective observational study including 70 patients diagnosed with acute ischemic stroke within the first 3 days of the onset of symptoms and 96 healthy controls. Stroke patients were categorized based on TOAST criteria, and hemorheological parameters were measured at admission and on the fifth day post-treatment. Erythrocyte aggregation and deformability were measured using a laser ektacytometer, and viscosity assessment was conducted with a rotational viscometer.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Stroke patients exhibited significant differences from the control group in aggregation amplitude, aggregation index, and aggregation half-time (p = 0.001, p = 0.013, p = 0.009, respectively) and showed elevated maximum value of elongation index (p = 0.000). No significant differences in WBV and plasma viscosity were observed between the groups. Post-treatment, the small vessel occlusion subgroup demonstrated a notable reduction in WBV. Additionally, homocysteine levels showed a positive correlation with scattered white matter lesions in basal ganglia and infratentorial regions (p = 0.002, p = 0.039, respectively).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Increased predisposition to erythrocyte aggregation may contribute to the occurrence of acute ischemic stroke. Moreover, gaining the ability of erythrocytes to deform and increase blood flow may serve as a compensatory mechanism in the chronic vascular disease process. The risk factors for ischemic stroke may exhibit connections to specific areas within the brain.</p>","PeriodicalId":94050,"journal":{"name":"International journal of laboratory hematology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142396302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}