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  • INFECTIOUS COMPLICATIONS AFTER UMBILICAL CORD-BLOOD TRANSPLANTATION FROM UNRELATED DONORS

    Juan Montoro, Jaime Sanz
    e2016051
    2016-10-18
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2016.051
    3368
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  • CLONAL HEMATOPOIESIS: ROLE IN HEMATOLOGIC NON-HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCIES CLONAL HEMATOPOIESIS AND MALIGNANCIES

    Ugo Testa, Dr. Germana Castelli, Dr. Elvira Pelosi
    e2022069
    2022-08-27
    https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2022.069
    3074
    PDF: 919
    HTML: 2050
  • FEASIBILITY OF COLLECTING UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD IN JORDAN AND THE EFFECT OF MATERNAL AND NEONATAL FACTORS ON HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL CONTENT

    Ayad Ahmed Hussein, Randa M. Bawadi, Lubna H. Tahtamouni, Haydar Frangoul, Ali Z. ElKarmi
    e2014019
    2014-02-18
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2014.019
    1543
    PDF: 823
    HTML: 2041
  • CORD BLOOD PLATELET LYSATE: IN VITRO EVALUATION TO SUPPORT THE USE IN REGENERATIVE MEDICINE. Cord and adult blood platelet lysates

    Luciana Teofili
    e2019021
    2019-02-25
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2019.021
    2070
    PDF: 1150
    HTML: 254
  • CLASSICAL HODGKIN LYMPHOMA TODAY

    Francesco D'Alò, Gabriele Schiaffini, Daniele Mazzoni, Eleonora Alma, Flaminia Bellisario, Marcello Viscovo, Elena Maiolo, Silvia Bellesi, Stefan Hohaus
    2026-06-30
    https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2026.055
    319
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  • ROLE OF ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION IN ADULT PATIENTS WITH ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA

    Federico Lussana, Alessandro Rambaldi
    e2014065
    2014-10-20
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2014.065
    2899
    PDF: 1244
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    Figure 1: 180
  • Third party cord blood transplant boosts autologous hematopoiesis in a case of persistent bone marrow aplasia after double transplant failure for ?-thalassemia major

    Giuseppe Visani, Paola Picardi, Barbara Guiduccu, Claudio Giardini, Moira Lucesole, Sara Barulli, Teresa Ricciardi, Federica Loscocco, Alessandro Isidori
    e2013029
    2013-04-15
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2013.029
    1497
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    HTML: 1234
  • FLT3 INTERNAL TANDEM DUPLICATION AND D835 MUTATIONS IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA AND ITS CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE

    Ghaleb Elyamany, Mohamed Awad, Omar Alsuhaibani, Kamal Fadalla, Omer Al Sharif, Mohammad Al Shahrani, Fahad Alabbas, Abdulaziz Al-Abulaaly
    e2014038
    2014-05-30
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2014.038
    1852
    PDF: 984
    HTML: 7174
  • UPDATE ON CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION MANAGEMENT IN ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS A Consensus Document of the Spanish Group for Hematopoietic Transplantation and Cell Therapy (GETH-TC)

    José Luis Piñana, Estela Giménez, Lourdes Vázquez, María Ángeles Marcos, Manuel Guerreiro, Rafael Duarte, Ariadna Pérez, Carlos de Miguel, Ildefonso Espigado, Marta González-Vicent, María Suarez-Lledó, Irene García-Cadenas, Rodrigo Martino, Angel Cedillo, Monserrat Rovira, Rafael de la Cámara, David Navarro, Carlos Solano
    e2024065
    2024-08-31
    https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2024.065
    4014
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    PDF: 1089
    Html: 181
  • ROLE OF STEM CELL FACTOR IN THE REACTIVATION OF HUMAN FETAL HEMOGLOBIN

    Marco Gabbianelli, Ugo Testa
    e2009009
    2009-11-12
    1155
    PDF: 482
    HTML: 4496
  • IMMUNITY TO INFECTIONS AFTER HAPLOIDENTICAL HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION

    Franco Aversa, Lucia Prezioso, Ilenia Manfra, Federica Galaverna, Angelica Spolzino, Alessandro Monti
    e2016057
    2016-10-25
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2016.057
    4380
    PDF: 1124
    HTML: 1428
  • TREOSULFAN-BASED CONDITIONING REGIMEN IN SIBLING AND ALTERNATIVE DONOR HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION FOR CHILDREN WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE

    Antonio Marzollo, Elisabetta Calore, Manuela Tumino, Marta Pillon, Maria Vittoria Gazzola, Roberta Destro, Raffaella Colombatti, Piero Marson, Tiziana Tison, Anna Colpo, Chiara Mainardi, Maria Gabelli, Maria Paola Boaro, Sara Rossin, Aurora Strano, Nadia Quaglia, Federica Menzato, Giuseppe Basso, Laura Sainati, Chiara Messina
    e2017014
    2017-02-15
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2017.014
    4323
    PDF: 1531
    HTML: 1193
  • PARASITIC INFECTIONS IN HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION

    Isidro Jarque, Miguel Salavert, Javier Pemán
    e2016035
    2016-07-01
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2016.035
    3724
    PDF: 1247
    HTML: 3908
    Untitled: 230
    Untitled: 267
  • CMV IN HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION

    Rafael de la Camara
    e2016031
    2016-06-20
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2016.031
    4840
    PDF: 1797
    HTML: 2723
    Untitled: 227
  • ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION FOR ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA OF THE ELDERLY: REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE AND PERSPECTIVES. Hematopoietic stem cell transplatation in the elderly fo Acute Myeloid Leukemia

    Gabriele Magliano, Andrea Bacigalupo
    e2020081
    2020-10-27
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.081
    1639
    PDF: 520
    HTML: 164
  • WHAT UNRELATED HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION IN THALASSEMIA TAUGHT US ABOUT TRANSPLANT IMMUNOGENETICS.

    Giorgio La Nasa, Adriana Vacca, Roberto Littera, Eugenia Piras, Sandro Orru, Marianna Greco, Carlo Carcassi, Giovanni Caocci
    e2016048
    2016-10-20
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2016.048
    3178
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    HTML: 1502
    Untitled: 182
    Untitled: 175
    Untitled: 176
  • The THE PLASMABLASTIC LYMPHOMA. A STATE-OF-THE-ART REVIEW: PART 2-FOCUS ON THERAPY

    Michele Bibas
    e2024015
    2024-02-29
    https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2024.015
    1813
    PDF: 1691
    HTML: 895
  • BONE MARROW HOMING AND ENGRAFTMENT DEFECTS OF HUMAN HEMATOPOIETIC STEM AND PROGENITOR CELLS

    Giovanni Caocci, Giorgio La Nasa
    e2017032
    2017-04-19
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2017.032
    3629
    PDF: 1575
    HTML: 3076
  • GENE THERAPY IN THALASSEMIA AND HEMOGLOBINOPATHIES

    Laura Breda, Roberto Gambari, Stefano Rivella
    e2009008
    2009-11-16
    1297
    PDF: 428
    HTML: 2886
  • HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION IN THALASSEMIA AND SICKLE CELL DISEASE: EXPERIENCE OF MEDITERRANEAN INSTITUTE OF HEMATOLOGY IN A MULTI-ETHNIC POPULATION.

    Marco Marziali, Antonella Isgrò, Javid Gaziev, Guido Lucarelli
    e2009027
    2009-12-26
    1711
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    HTML: 2922
  • HEMATOPOIETIC CELL TRANSPLANTATION FOR OLDER PATIENTS WITH MDS

    Mazyar Shadman, Joachim Deeg
    e2014056
    2014-09-01
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2014.056
    2046
    PDF: 774
    HTML: 3117
  • BACTERIAL BLOOD STREAM INFECTIONS NEGATIVELY IMPACT ON OUTCOME OF PATIENTS TREATED WITH ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION: 6 YEARS SINGLE-CENTRE EXPERIENCE

    Michele Malagola
    e2017036
    2017-06-20
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2017.036
    2443
    PDF: 840
    HTML: 1068
  • DONOR KIR3DL1/RECEPTOR HLA-BW4-80I COMBINATION REDUCES ACUTE LEUKEMIA RELAPSE AFTER UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANTATION WITHOUT IN VITRO T-CELL DEPLETION KIR3DL1 with HLA-Bw4-80I reduces leukemia relapse

    xinchen fang, Zimin Sun, Huilan Liu, Xiang Wan, Wen Yao, Kaidi Song, Kaidi Song, Baolin Tang, Xiaoyu zhu, Jun Peng
    e2021005
    2021-01-01
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2021.005
    1402
    PDF: 549
    HTML: 209
  • CAR-T CELL THERAPY IN B-CELL ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA CAR-T CELL and B-ALL

    Ugo Testa, Prof. Sica, Dr. Pelosi, Dr. Germana Castelli, Prof. Leone
    e2024010
    2024-01-01
    https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2024.010
    4337
    PDF: 3564
    HTML: 221
  • EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS RELATED LYMPHOPROLIFERATIONS AFTER STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION

    Simona Sica, Elisabetta Metafuni, Silvia Bellesi, Patrizia Chiusolo
    e2009019
    2009-12-14
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2009.019
    1371
    PDF: 573
    HTML: 2996
  • THE USE OF HPLC AS A TOOL FOR NEONATAL CORD BLOOD SCREENING OF HAEMOGLOBINOPATHY - A VALIDATION STUDY

    A. Al-Madhani, Anil Pathare, Salam Alkindi
    e2019005
    2019-01-01
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2019.005
    2032
    PDF: 1203
    HTML: 375
  • HEMOGLOBIN ANALYSIS IN THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE

    PEERAPON WONG
    e2016012
    2016-02-12
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2016.012
    3514
    PDF: 1042
    HTML: 3053
  • HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRNSPLANTATION IN THALASSEMIA AND RELATED DISORDERS

    Emanuele Angelucci, Federica Pilo, Clara Targhetta, Martina Pettinau, Cristina Depau, Claudia Cogoni, Sara Usai, Mario Pani, Laura Dessì, Donatella Baronciani
    e2009015
    1423
    PDF: 492
    HTML: 3976
  • DAYS ALIVE OUTSIDE HOSPITAL AND RE-ADMISSIONS IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING ALLOGENEIC TRANSPLANTS FROM IDENTICAL SIBLINGS, UNRELATED DONORS OR HAPLOIDENTICAL DONORS “.

    Federica Sorà, patrizia chiusolo, luca laurenti, idanna innocenti, francesco autore, sabrina giammarco, elisabetta metafuni, eleonora alma, alessia di giovanni, simona sica, andrea bacigalupo
    e2020055
    2020-08-29
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.055
    1229
    PDF: 688
    HTML: 312
  • LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE SYNDROMES ASSOCIATED WITH HUMAN HERPESVIRUS-6A AND HUMAN HERPESVIRUS-6B

    Eva Eliassen, Gerhard R Krueger, Mario Luppi, Dharam Ablashi
    e2018035
    2018-05-01
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2018.035
    3793
    PDF: 1602
    HTML: 500
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  • CURING HEMOGLOBINOPATHIES: CHALLENGES AND ADVANCES OF CONVENTIONAL AND NEW GENE THERAPY APPROACHES.

    Irene Motta, Valentina Ghiaccio, Andrea Cosentino, Laura Breda
    e2019067
    2019-10-30
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2019.067
    2908
    PDF: 1863
    HTML: 767
  • HAPLOIDENTICAL TRANSPLANT WITH POST-TRANSPLANT CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE FOR ACUTE MYELOID LEUKAEMIA AND MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES PATIENTS: THE ROLE OF PREVIOUS LINES OF THERAPY.

    Daniele Avenoso, Fabio Serpenti, Liron Barnea Slonim, Styliani Bouziana, Francesco Dazzi, Guy Hannah, Michelle Kenyon, Varun Mehra, Austin Kulasekararaj, Pramila Krishnamurthy, Mili Naresh Shah, Sharon Lionel, Antonio Pagliuca, Victoria Potter
    e2024002
    2024-01-01
    https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2024.002
    1361
    PDF: 1454
    HTML: 155
  • IMPACT OF PRETRANSPLANT DONOR AND RECIPIENT CYTOMEGALOVIRUS SEROSTATUS ON OUTCOME FOR MULTIPLE MYELOMA PATIENTS UNDERGOING REDUCED INTENSITY CONDITIONING ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION.

    Jean Elcheikh
    e2013026
    2013-04-10
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2013.026
    1318
    PDF: 746
    HTML: 1430
  • EFFECTS OF FACTOR XIII DEFICIENCY ON THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY. THROMBELASTOGRAPHY WITH CALCIUM AND LYSIS BY ADDITION OF STREPTOKINASE IS MORE SENSITIVE THAN SOLUBILITY TESTS

    Marta E Martinuzzo
    e2016037
    2016-08-16
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2016.037
    3159
    PDF: 989
    HTML: 1909
    Untitled: 172
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  • ALLOGENEIC TRANSPLANTATION FOR CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA

    Luca Laurenti, Michela Tarnani, Patrizia Chiusolo, Federica Sorà, Simona Sica
    e2010026
    2010-08-31
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2010.026
    1409
    PDF: 778
    HTML: 946
  • JC Virus leuko-encephalopathy in reduced intensity conditioning cord blood transplant recipient.

    jean elcheikh
    e2012043
    2012-06-20
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2012.043
    1130
    PDF: 843
    HTML: 10940
  • PREVALENCE OF THALASSEMIA AMONG NEWBORNS: A RE-VISITED AFTER 20 YEARS OF A PREVENTION AND CONTROL PROGRAM IN NORTHEAST THAILAND.

    Goonnapa Fucharoen
    e2018054
    2018-09-01
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2018.054
    1814
    PDF: 1100
    HTML: 222
  • EBV AND HIV-RELATED LYMPHOMA

    Michele Bibas, Andrea Antinori
    e2009032
    2009-12-29
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2009.032
    1592
    PDF: 643
    HTML: 6879
  • MANAGING INVASIVE FUNGAL INFECTIONS DURING ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC TRANSPLANTATION: A 2025 UPDATE

    Martina Quattrone, Alessia Di Pilla, Sara Brunetti, Antonio Giordano, Luana Fianchi, Livio Pagano, Marianna Criscuolo
    e2025064
    2025-08-31
    https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2025.064
    2190
    PDF: 911
    HTML: 178
  • COMPARISON OF INFECTIOUS COMPLICATIONS IN PATIENTS RECEIVING HIGH-DOSE CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE AS GVHD AFTER TRANSPLANTATION FROM A 9/10 HLA-MATCHED UNRELATED DONOR WITH STANDARD GVHD PROPHYLAXIS AFTER TRANSPLANT FROM A FULL MATCHING DONOR Infection With PTCy Versus Standard GvHD Prophylaxis

    Selim SAYIN
    e2024016
    2024-02-29
    https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2024.016
    1421
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    HTML: 101
  • IN UTERO HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION (IUHSCT)

    Maria Concetta Renda, Aurelio Maggio
    e2009031
    2009-12-29
    1103
    PDF: 459
    HTML: 903
  • THE GUT MICROBIOTA AND IMMUNE SYSTEM RELATIONSHIP IN HUMAN GRAFT-VERSUS-HOST DISEASE

    Lucrezia Laterza, Gianenrico Rizzatti, Eleonora Gaetani, Patrizia Chiusolo, Antonio Gasbarrini
    e2016025
    2016-05-01
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2016.025
    6367
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    HTML: 14029
    Untitled: 207
    figure: 190
  • THALASSAEMIA INTERMEDIA : AN UPDATE

    Ali Taher, Khaled M. Musallam, Maria Domenica Cappellini
    e2009004
    2009-08-17
    1078
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    HTML: 9453
  • Genomic integration of HHV-6 mimicking viral reactivation after autologous stem cell transplantation

    rossana mineri, Jacopo Mariotti, Barbara Sarina, Lucio Morabito, roberto crocchiolo, stefania bramanti, tiziana sarno, federica tordato, carmelo carlo-stella, armando santoro, Luca Castagna
    e2018013
    2018-02-15
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2018.013
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  • EBV AND HHV-6 CIRCULATING SUBTYPES IN PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV IN BURKINA FASO, IMPACT ON CD4 T CELL COUNT AND HIV VIRAL LOAD

    Lassina TRAORE, Ouéogo NIKIEMA, Abdoul Karim OUATTARA, Tegwindé Rébéca COMPAORE, Serge Théophile SOUBEIGA, Birama DIARRA, Dorcas OBIRI-YEBOAH, Pegdwendé Abel SORGHO, Florencia Wendkuuni DJIGMA, Cyrille BISSEYE, Albert Théophane YONLI, Jacques SIMPORE
    e2017049
    2017-09-01
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2017.049
    3342
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    HTML: 904
  • JUSTIFICATION OF UNIVERSAL IRON SUPPLEMENTATION FOR INFANTS 6-12 MONTHS IN REGIONS WITH A HIGH PREVALENCE OF THALASSEMIA Iron Supplementation for Infants 6-12 months in Regions with a High Prevalence of Thalassemia

    Phakatip Sinlapamongkolkul, Pacharapan Surapolchai, Vip Viprakasit
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    2023-08-29
    https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2023.056
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  • TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITORS AND PREGNANCY

    Elisabetta Abruzzese, Malgorzata Monika Trawinska, Paolo De Fabritiis, Alessio Pio Perrotti
    e2014028
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    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2014.028
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  • How I treat acute and persistent sickle cell pain

    Samir Ballas
    e2020064
    2020-09-08
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.064
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  • ANTIFUNGAL THERAPY IN HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS

    Alessandro Busca, Livio Pagano
    e2016039
    2016-09-01
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2016.039
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  • OLDER ADULTS WITH PH NEGATIVE ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA: A MONOCENTRIC EXPERIENCE ON CONSECUTIVE PATIENTS AGED MORE THAN 55 YEARS Older Adults with Ph Negative Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

    Erika Borlenghi, Tatiana Zollner, Giuseppe Rossi, Chiara Pagani, Michele Malagola, Alessandra Sottini, Diego Bertoli, Mariella Tonelli, Marco Chiarini, Chiara Cattaneo, Rossella Leopaldo, Angela Passi, Lorenzo Masina, Francesca Federico, Carlotta Giupponi, Alessandra Tucci
    e2024080
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