...G. Cambiaghi; S. Paina In patients with cirrhosis, the etiocholanolone test showed a decrease in the bone marrow granulocyte reserve; in all the cases studied, the baseline counts of peripheral granulocytes were normal. The mechanisms leading to such a defect are explained. Cirrhosis Bone...

... their concentrations in blood. The mean value of TFBC in 35 normal sera was 151 ± (SD) 53 pg/ml with a saturation of 88%. The TFBC was raised in chronic granulocytic leukemia (CGL), in acute hepatitis, in cirrhosis, and in pregnancy (third trimester). The normal mean value of TFBC was found in chronic lymphocytic...

...P.G. Langley; R.D. Hughes; Roger Williams Patients with liver disease have abnormal platelet function. We have investigated the retention of platelets to glass beads in fulminant hepatic failure, cirrhosis and normal controls. Glass bead retention was significantly increased in fulminant hepatic...

... showed haemosiderosis in 2 patients with cirrhosis in one of them. It is suggested that splenectomy could be an effective mode of therapy to reduce the need for blood transfusion in congenital dyserythropoietic anaemias. 7 06 1979 20 02 1981 26 2 2009 © 1981 S. Karger AG, Basel...

...% developed a membranous proliferative glomerulonephritis, and more than half died of renal insufficiency; in 11% cirrhosis was diagnosed after a period of 4–9 years; another 11% developed a lymphoproliferative disease; of the remaining 40%, 2 are still asymptomatic, and the others are affected by purpura...

... descent. Methods: A 47-year-old African-American man had microcytic anemia, elevated iron measures, cardiomyopathy, hepatic cirrhosis, diabetes mellitus, a history of cocaine use and hepatitis C. We amplified and directly sequenced his genomic DNA to detect mutations of SLC40A1 , HFE , TFR2 , HAMP , HJV...

...Yi-Kong Keung; David Morgan; David Hodges; Melissa Blann; Everardo Cobos We report 2 cases of myelodysplastic syndrome associated with cirrhosis caused by primary biliary cirrhosis and α 1 -antitrypsin deficiency. The etiology of myelodysplasia and its implication in liver transplantation...