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  • HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE MEASUREMENT IN ADULTS WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE IN STEADY STATE: EXPERIENCE OF ONE FRENCH REFERENCE CENTER

    Giovanna Cannas, Solene Poutrel, Emilie Virot, Manon Marie, Alexandre Guilhem, Amal El-Kanouni, Richard Bourgeay, Marie-Grace Mutumwa, Mohamed Elhamri, Arnaud Hot
    e2025065
    2025-08-31
    https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2025.065
    1152
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  • MPN/MDS OVERLAP SYNDROME ANTICIPATED BY A SEVERE BLEEDING DIATHESIS: HYPOTHESIS OF A PRE-EXISTING PLATELET DISORDER

    Paola Ranalli, Stefano Baldoni, Daniela Bruno, Mauro Di Ianni
    e2024067
    2024-08-31
    https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2024.067
    1314
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  • Managment of Relapsed/Refractory ALL With Inotuzumab During COVID-19. A Casr Report

    Martina Di Palma, Elio Gentilini, Chiara Masucci, Alessandra Micozzi, Ombretta Turriziani, Antonino Mulè, Robin Foà, Maurizio Martelli, Gabriella D'Ettorre, Saveria Capria, Sabina Chiaretti
    e2022043
    2022-04-28
    https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2022.043
    2092
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  • The diagnostic pitfalls of mucormycosis

    Margherita Mauro, Giuliana Lo Cascio, Rita Balter, Ada Zaccaron, Elisa Bonetti, Virgina Vitale, Matteo Chinello, Massimiliano De Bortoli, Paolo Brazzarola, Costanza Bruno, Simone Cesaro
    e2020079
    2020-10-27
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.079
    1069
    PDF: 781
    HTML: 307
  • Successful Management of Steroid-Resistant cutaneous Acute Graft-versus-Host Disease, Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis-Like, with Ruxolitinib

    Fahir Ozturk, Mehmet Sezgin Pepeler, Esra Ucaryilmaz Ozhamam, Gulten Korkmaz
    e2025020
    2025-02-27
    https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2025.020
    1125
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  • ACUTE LEUKEMIA AND LATENT TUBERCULOSIS INFECTION IN ITALY: QUANTIFERON-TB TEST SCREENING IN A LOW TUBERCULOSIS INCIDENCE COUNTRY

    Andrea Nunzi, Luigi Della Valle, Elisa Linnea Lindfors Rossi, Giorgia Ranucci, Flavia Mallegni, Federico Moretti, Elisa Meddi, Luca Guarnera, Ilaria Tiravanti, Kristian Taka, Elisa Buzzatti, Fabiana Esposito, Roberto Secchi, Francesca Di Giuliano, Flavia Chirico, Raffaele Palmieri, Luca Maurillo, Francesco Buccisano, Carmelo Gurnari, Giovangiacinto Paterno, Adriano Venditti, Maria Ilaria Del Principe
    e2024054
    2024-06-29
    https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2024.054
    1146
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  • Gamma heavy chain disease associated with T-cell large granular lymphocyte lymphoproliferative disorder: case report and literature review.

    Maria Laura Bisegna, Maria Assunta Limongiello, Stefano Fiori, Maria Stefania De Propris, Irene Della Starza, Stefania Trasarti
    e2023010
    2023-01-01
    https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2023.010
    1227
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    HTML: 492
  • Hsa-miR-5581-3p and hsa-miR-542-3p target the F8 gene in hemophilia A without F8 mutations F8 gene is regulated by miRNAs

    Feiying Meng
    e2021041
    2021-06-28
    https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2021.041
    1242
    PDF: 592
    HTML: 401
  • Pidotimod in paucisymptomatic SARS-CoV2 infected patients Pidotimod in COVID-19

    Claudio Ucciferri, Barone Mirko, Jacopo Vecchiet, Katia Falasca
    e2020048
    2020-06-28
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.048
    3341
    PDF: 1970
    HTML: 1002
  • PREVALENCE AND FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH HUMAN PARVOVIRUS B19 INFECTION IN SICKLE CELL PATIENTS HOSPITALIZED IN TANZANIA

    Florence Urio, Humphrey George, Furahini Tluway, Thomas B Nyambo, Bruno P Mmbando, Julie Makani
    e2019054
    2019-08-29
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2019.054
    1867
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  • Emerging cases of pertussis among early infants born to unvaccinated mothers, an infectious disease long absent in Northwestern Greece

    Alexandros Makis, Vasileios Grammeniatis, Charis Galati, Panagiota Kostara, Evangelia Petridou, Constantina Gartzonika, Athanasios Pappas, Nikolaos Chaliasos
    e2017043
    2017-06-20
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2017.043
    3005
    PDF: 723
    HTML: 375
  • THE ICET-A RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF DISTURBANCES OF GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS IN THALASSEMIA MAJOR PATIENTS

    Vincenzo De Sanctis
    e2016058
    2016-10-25
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2016.058
    4363
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    HTML: 1496
  • Pseudo-differentiation syndrome

    Dina Khalaf, Fathi Jehani
    e2011061
    2011-12-15
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2011.061
    1555
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    Figure 1: peripheral blood showing myeloblasts with auer rods: 164
    Figure 2: CXR upon presentation to the hospital- no infiltrates nor consolidation changes: 147
    Figure 3: CXR showing pulmonary infiltartes with consolidation: 170
    Figure 4: CXR after starting steroid therapy- where the infiltrates have melted away: 154
    Figure 5: barograph showing the rising TLC ad ANC values- associated with worsening symptoms and increasing pulmonary infiltrates in CXR: 150
  • SUSTAINED REMISSION IN AN ELDERLY PATIENT WITH ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA FOLLOWING GILTERITINIB TREATMENT AS THIRD-LINE SALVAGE THERAPY Long-lasting disease remission with third line therapy with gilteritinib

    Matteo Molica
    e2024079
    2024-10-31
    https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2024.079
    1097
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  • SEQUENCE ANALYSIS OF HOT SPOT REGIONS OF SPIKE AND RNA‑DEPENDENT‑RNA POLYMERASE (RDRP) GENES OF SARS-COV-2 IN KERMAN, IRAN

    Nasir, Ramin, Amin, Jamal
    e2023042
    2023-06-29
    https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2023.042
    999
    PDF: 839
    HTML: 295
  • TYPICAL AND ATYPICAL PRESENTATION OF COVID-19 INFECTION IN CHILDREN IN THE TOP OF PANDEMIC IN MINIA GOVERNORATE (TWO CENTER EXPERIENCE)

    Madeha Abdalla Sayed, Mohamed Abdelhakeem
    e2022002
    2022-01-01
    https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2022.002
    2952
    PDF: 673
    HTML: 352
  • Bortezomib maintenance for the treatment of Monoclonal Gammopathy of Renal Significance

    Holly Lee, Peter Duggan, Ernesta Paola Neri, Jason Tay, Victor Jimenez Zepeda
    e2019007
    2019-01-01
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2019.007
    2458
    PDF: 1237
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  • CLINICAL AND LABORATORY CHARACTERISTICS OF DENGUE-ORIENTI TSUTSUGAMUSHI CO-INFECTION FROM A TERTIARY CARE CENTER IN SOUTH INDIA

    Aneesh Basheer, Nayyar Iqbal, Sudhagar Mookkappan, Patricia Anitha, Shashikala Nair, Reba Kanungo, Ravichandran Kandasamy
    e2016028
    2016-06-16
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2016.028
    5193
    PDF: 988
    HTML: 1656
  • HIV INFECTION, ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY AND CARDIOVASCULAR RISK

    Katleen de Gaetano Donati, Roberto Cauda, Licia Iacoviello
    e2010034
    2010-11-10
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2010.034
    1985
    PDF: 864
    HTML: 3700
  • COINCIDENCE OR CONNECTION? REVISITING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MASTOCYTOSIS AND LYMPHOMA

    Antonio Frolli, Cristina Papayannidis, Carmen Fava, Martina Bullo, Selene Grano, Valentina Bonuomo, Daniela Gottardi, Guido Parvis, Beatrice Casadei, Daniela Cilloni
    e2026047
    2026-04-30
    https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2026.047
    391
    PDF: 305
    HTML: 55
  • FROM LEGACY TO INNOVATION: PIDOTIMOD’S EXPANDING THERAPEUTIC HORIZON Pidotimod: Revisiting a Classic Immunomodulator

    Claudio Ucciferri, Francesca Chiappini, Jacopo Vecchiet, Katia Falasca
    e2025057
    2025-08-31
    https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2025.057
    3195
    PDF: 1104
    HTML: 3351
  • Successful Bridging to Allogeneic Transplantation With Valemetostat in Two Refractory/relapsed Peripheral T-cell lymphoma patients

    Gianmarco Bagnato, Vittorio Stefoni, Alessandro Broccoli, Lisa Argnani, Cinzia Pellegrini, Beatrice Casadei, Francesca Bonifazi, Pier Luigi Zinzani
    e2024004
    2024-01-01
    https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2024.004
    1591
    PDF: 1505
    HTML: 225
  • VIRAL ETIOLOGY OF ACUTE RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS IN LEBANON

    Khaldoun Masoud, Ghassan Matar, Ghassan Dbaibo, Geoarge F Araj, Hasan Zaraket, Rima Hanna Wakim
    e2019059
    2019-10-30
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2019.059
    1628
    PDF: 927
    HTML: 221
  • ZIKA VIRUS: A REVIEW FROM THE VIRUS BASICS TO PROPOSED MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

    Lorenzo Zammarchi, Michele Spinicci, Alessandro Bartoloni
    e2016056
    2016-11-01
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2016.056
    7654
    PDF: 1331
    HTML: 2084
  • PROPHYLAXIS OF MALARIA

    Eli Schwartz
    e2012045
    2012-06-29
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2012.045
    3145
    PDF: 1119
    HTML: 18072
    Figures SChwartz: 214
  • HIV-ASSOCIATED VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM

    Michele Bibas, Gianluigi Biava, Andrea Antinori
    e2011030
    2011-07-08
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2011.030
    4699
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    HTML: 8556
  • Evaluation of Platelet Parameters in Patients With Pulmonary Hydatid Cyst

    Abdulkadir Küçükbayrak
    e2010006
    2010-04-14
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2010.006
    1478
    PDF: 844
    HTML: 947
  • CD48 AS A NOVEL EARLY BIOMARKER COMPLEMENTING PROCALCITONIN AND LACTATE FOR PREDICTING BACTEREMIA IN PEDIATRIC FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA: A PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY CD48 A NOVEL EARLY BIOMARKER PREDICTING BACTERIEMIA

    Neryal Tahta, Tuba Hilkay Karapınar, Sultan Okur Acar, Ayşe Erol, İlker Devrim, Yesim Oymak, Salih Gozmen, Canan Raziye Vergin
    e2026004
    2026-01-01
    https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2026.004
    1115
    PDF: 829
    HTML: 141
  • LIVER DISEASE & SICKLE CELL DISEASE: AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS MORE THAN A COINCIDENCE; A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW.

    Kelvin Lynch, Andrea Mega, Andrea Piccin, Massimo Daves, Helen Fogarty
    e2023060
    2023-10-30
    https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2023.060
    2612
    PDF: 3003
    HTML: 399
  • SURVIVAL PROBABILITY IN PATIENTS WITH SICKLE CELL ANEMIA USING THE COMPETITIVE RISK STATISTICAL MODEL

    Samir Ballas, Emilia Matos do Nascimento, PhD, Clarisse Lopes de Castro Lobo, MD, Basilio de Bragança Pereira, PhD
    e2019022
    2019-02-26
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2019.022
    1697
    PDF: 1022
    HTML: 291
  • H1N1 influenza among hematological patients: monocentric influenza cases from 2011 to 2016.

    Elisabetta Metafuni, Rosaria Santangelo, Patrizia Chiusolo, Luca Laurenti, Federica Sorà, Sabrina Giammarco, Simona Sica
    e2017024
    2017-03-01
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2017.024
    1996
    PDF: 790
    HTML: 786
  • 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
    3884
    PDF: 1359
    HTML: 3966
    Untitled: 288
    Untitled: 319
  • RECENT ADVANCES IN THE 5Q- SYNDROME

    Andrea Pellagatti, Jacqueline Boultwood
    e2015037
    2015-05-20
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2015.037
    3154
    PDF: 1949
    HTML: 3846
    Pellagatti Fig 1: 270
    Pellagatti Fig. 2: 256
  • TUBERCULOSIS: MEDICO-LEGAL ASPECTS

    Giuseppe Vetrugno, Fabio De Giorgio, Francesco D'Alessandro
    e2014033
    2014-04-21
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2014.033
    2635
    PDF: 1137
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  • DIAGNOSTIC VALUE OF SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT OF PROCALCITONIN, INTERLEUKIN-6 AND HS CRP IN PREDICTION OF EARLY-ONSET NEONATAL SEPSIS

    alireza abdollahi, saeed shoar, fatemeh nayyeri, mamak shariat
    e2012028
    2012-05-06
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2012.028
    2188
    PDF: 1305
    HTML: 1962
    Untitled: 193
    TaBles Neinates sepsis: 232
  • Late-Onset Veno-Occlusive Disease (VOD) Post-Haploidentical Transplant: A Diagnostic Challenge Requiring Liver Biopsy– A Case Report

    Mehak Trehan, Homdutt Sharma, Abhinav Sengupta, Anirudh Burli, Pradeep Kumar, Manoranjan Mahapatra
    e2025068
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    1090
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    Html: 192
  • Orbital Infiltration in a Patient with Waldenström Macroglobulinemia: Need for Multidisciplinary Approach and Comparison with the Literature

    Riccardo Paggi, Francesca Mariotti, Jessica Mencarini, Silvia Bresci, Irene Capolmi, Filippo Bartalesi, Beatrice Borchi, Luca Nassi, Alessandro Maria Vannucchi, Alessandro Bartoloni
    e2023028
    2023-04-28
    https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2023.028
    1202
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    HTML: 445
  • ULTRASOUND AS FIRST LINE STEP IN ANAEMIA DIAGNOSTICS

    chiara mozzini, giancarlo pesce, alder casadei, domenico girelli, maurizio soresi
    e2019066
    2019-10-30
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2019.066
    1568
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    HTML: 2025
  • The Efficacy and Safety of Sofosbuvir Containing Regimen in the Treatment of Hcv Infection in Patients with Haemoglobinopathy

    Nawfal R Hussein
    e2017005
    2017-01-01
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2017.005
    1690
    PDF: 887
    HTML: 676
  • PATIENTS REFERRED FOR BLEEDING SYMPTOMS OF UNKNOWN CAUSE: DOES EVALUATION OF THROMBIN GENERATION CONTRIBUTE TO DIAGNOSIS?

    Elena Holm, Eva Zetterberg, Susanna Lövdahl, Erik Berntorp
    e2016014
    2016-02-10
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2016.014
    3919
    PDF: 916
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  • IRON CHELATION THERAPY WITH DEFERASIROX IN THE MANAGEMENT OF IRON OVERLOAD IN PRIMARY MYELOFIBROSIS

    Elena Maria Elli, Angelo Belotti, Andrea Aroldi, Matteo Parma, Pietro Pioltelli, Enrico Maria Pogliani
    e2014042
    2014-05-30
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2014.042
    2264
    PDF: 1238
    HTML: 2027
  • NATURAL HISTORY OF GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS AND AND Β-CELL FUNCTION FROM CHILDHOOD TO EARLY ADULTHOOD IN TRANSFUSION-DEPENDENT Β-THALASSEMIA: A NINE-YEAR LONGITUDINAL COHORT STUDY

    Vincenzo De Sanctis, Ashraf T Soliman, Shahina Daar, Mohammad Faranoush, Ploutarchos Tzoulis
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  • A novel ALAS2 mutation causes congenital sideroblastic anemia

    Kun Yang
    e2023062
    2023-10-30
    https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2023.062
    853
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  • Treating relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia with chidamide, fludarabine, cytarabine and granulocyte-colony stimulating factor with subsequent bridging to myeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation Treating relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia with chidamide, fludarabine, cytarabine and G-CSF

    Wen Yao, Xinchen Fang, Peng Jiang, Juan Tong, Liangquan Geng, Xiaoyu Zhu, Baolin Tang, Xiang Wan, Kaidi Song, Lei Zhang, Ping Qiang, Guangyu Sun, Yongsheng Han, Huilan Liu, Zimin Sun
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    1928
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  • COMPARISON OF PRESEPSIN, PROCALCITONIN, INTERLEUKIN-8 AND C-REACTIVE PROTEIN IN PREDICTING BACTERAEMIA IN FEBRILE NEUTROPENIC ADULT PATIENTS WITH HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCIES

    Irena Kostic, Carmela Gurrieri, Elisa Piva, Gianpietro Semenzato, Mario Plebani, Ilaria Caputo, Fabrizio Vianello
    e2019047
    2019-08-29
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2019.047
    3755
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    HTML: 420
  • THE START-UP OF THE FIRST HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION CENTER IN THE IRAQI KURDISTAN: A CAPACITY-BUILDING COOPERATIVE PROJECT BY THE HIWA CANCER HOSPITAL, SULAYMANIYAH, AND THE ITALIAN AGENCY FOR DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION

    Ignazio Majolino
    e2017031
    2017-04-15
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2017.031
    2572
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  • TUBERCULOSIS: EPIDEMIOLOGY AND CONTROL

    Giorgia Sulis, Alberto Roggi, Alberto Matteelli, Mario C. Raviglione
    e2014070
    2014-10-27
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2014.070
    7542
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    HTML: 24996
  • THE EVOLVING ROLE OF RADIOTHERAPY IN EARLY STAGE HODGKIN’S LYMPHOMA

    Umberto Ricardi, Andrea Riccardo Filippi, Cristina Piva, Pierfrancesco Franco
    e2014035
    2014-05-30
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2014.035
    2376
    PDF: 1032
    HTML: 6870
    Figure 1: 218
  • SPHINGOMONAS PAUCIMOBILIS INFECTIONS IN CHILDREN: NOSOCOMIAL VERSUS COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTIONS

    Nuri Bayram, İlker Devrim, Hurşit Apa, Gamze Gülfidan, Hande Namal Türkyılmaz, İlker Günay
    e2013040
    2013-06-04
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2013.040
    1943
    PDF: 1087
    HTML: 2091
    cover: 227
    Table 1. Co-morbidities associated with Sphingomonas paucimobilis infections.: 237
    Figure 1. The antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of Sphingomonas paucimobilis isolated from clinical specimens: 1865
    title page: 232
  • Possible treatment failure of artemether-lumefantrine in an Italian traveler with uncomplicated falciparum malaria.

    Ernestina Carla Repetto, Claudio Giacomazzi, Antonio Traverso
    e2011041
    2011-10-02
    https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2011.041
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