Vol. 12 No. 1 (2020): Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases, Volume 12, 2020 | Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases

Andrea De Vito, Nicholas Geremia, Maria Sabrina Mameli, Vito Fiore, Pier Andrea Serra, Gaia Rocchitta, Susanna Nuvoli, Angela Spanu, Renato Lobrano, Antonio Cossu, Sergio Babudieri, Giordano Maddeddu

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.056

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PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF TRANSCRIPT-TYPE BCR/ABL1 IN CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA

matteo molica, elisabetta abruzzese, massimo breccia

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.062

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CARDIOVASCULAR RISK IN ESSENTIAL THROMBOCYTHEMIA AND POLYCYTHEMIA VERA: THROMBOTIC RISK AND SURVIVAL

Vincenzo Accurso, Marco Santoro, Salvatrice Mancuso, Angelo Davide Contrino, Paolo Casimio, Mariano Sardo, Simona Raso, Florinda Di Piazza, Alessandro Perez, Marco Bono, Antonio Russo, Sergio Siragusa

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.008

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CANDIDEMIA IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE LEUKEMIA: ANALYSIS OF SEVEN YEARS’ EXPERIENCE AT A SINGLE CENTER IN CHINA

Xiaoyuan Gong, mianzeng yang, Dong Lin, Hui Wei, Ying Wang, Bingchen Liu, Chunlin Zhou, Kaiqi Liu, Shuning Wei, Benfa Gong, Guancji Zhang, Yuntao Liu, Yan Li, Xingli Zao, Shaowei Qiu, Ruxia Gu, Yingchang Mi, Jianxiang Wang

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.003

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THE PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF TET2 SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM IN EGYPTIAN CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA

Enas A Dammag, Nahla A.M. Hamed, Professor, Nabil A El Halawani, Professor, Heba S Kassem, Professor, Mona W Ayad, Professor

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.004

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MICRORNA-181A-3P AS A DIAGNOSTIC AND PROGNOSTIC BIOMARKER FOR ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA

Xiaoling Ma

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.012

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The PARTIAL ACHIEVEMENT OF THE 90-90-90 UNAIDS TARGET IN A COHORT OF HIV INFECTED PATIENTS FROM CENTRAL ITALY.

Elisabetta Schiaroli

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.017

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CHARACTERISTICS AND PROGNOSIS OF HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA IN MULTI-TRANSFUSED PATIENTS WITH THALASSEMIA MAJOR. EXPERIENCE OF A SINGLE TERTIARY CENTER.

Nikolaos Papadopoulos, Dimitrios Kountouras, Katerina Malagari, Maria Tampaki, Maria Theochari, John Koskinas

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.013

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FINE MAPPING OF GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE (G6PD) DEFICIENCY IN RURAL AREA OF SOUTH WEST ODISHA USING THE CLINICAL, HEMATOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR APPROACH

Ravindra Kumar, MPSS Singh, Soumendu Mahapatra, Sonam Chourasia, Malay Kumar Tripathi, John Oommen, Praveen Kumar Bharti, Rajasubramaniam Shanmugam

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.015

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THE IMPACT OF CHEMOTHERAPY AFTER PEDIATRIC MALIGNANCY ON HUMORAL IMMUNITY TO VACCINE-PREVENTABLE DISEASES

Chiara Garonzi, Rita Balter, Gloria Tridello, Anna Pegoraro, Manuela Pegoraro, Monia Pacenti, Novella Scattolo, Simone Cesaro

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.014

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DEVELOPMENT OF AN IMPROVED EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS (EBV) NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY ASSAY TO FACILITATE DEVELOPMENT OF A PROPHYLACTIC GP350-SUBUNIT EBV VACCINE

Hui Liu, Lorraine Gemmell, Rui Lin, Fengrong Zuo, Henry H. Balfour, Jr., Jennifer C. Woo, Gregory M. Hayes

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.016

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DISCOVERY OF TYPE 3 VON WILLEBRAND DISEASE IN A COHORT OF PATIENTS WITH SUSPECTED HEMOPHILIA A IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE

Adia Eusèbe Adjambri, Sylvie Bouvier, Roseline N'guessan, Emma N’draman-Donou, Mireille Yayo-Ayé, Marie-France Meledje, Missa Louis Adjé, Duni Sawadogo

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.019

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THALIDOMIDE FOR PATIENTS WITH THALASSEMIA INTERMEDIA: A RETROSPECTIVE MULTICENTER CLINICAL STUDY

Kun Yang, Yi Wu, Yali Zhou, Tianhong Zhou, Li Wang, Zhili Geng, Xiaolin Yin

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.021

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LYON-UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL EXPERIENCE WITH GEMTUZUMAB OZOGAMICIN THERAPY IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA: A ‘REAL-LIFE’ STUDY

Xavier Thomas, Marica Laurino, sandrine loron, marie-virginie larcher, gaëlle fossard, mohamed elhamri, alexandre deloire, marie balsat, fiorenza barraco, hélène labussière, sophie ducastelle, myriam renault, eric wattel, maël heiblig, gilles salles

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.020

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The COST-UTILITY ANALYSIS OF FOUR CHELATION REGIMENS FOR ?-THALASSEMIA MAJOR: A CHINESE PERSPECTIVE

Jialian Li

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.029

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CLINICAL USEFULNESS OF BROCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF PULMONARY INFILTRATES IN ADULTS WITH HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCIES AND STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION

Laura Jorge, Diego Torres, Agustín Languasco, Pablo Rodriguez, Pablo Bonvehí, Elena Temporiti, Silvia Relloso, Cristina Videla, Fabián Herrera

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.025

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HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION IN EGYPT CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

Hossam Kamel Mahmoud, Gamaleldin Mohamed Fathy, Alaa Elhaddad, Omar Abdelrahman Fahmy, Mohamed Abdelmooti, Raafat Abdelfattah, Mahmoud Tarek Sayed Ahmed Bokhary

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.023

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HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE IN THAI CHILDREN WITH THALASSEMIA AS EVALUATED BY PEDSQL AND EQ-5D-Y: A SINGLE CENTER EXPERIENCE

Pacharapan Surapolchai, Phakatip Sinlapamongkolkul

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.036

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ASSOCIATION OF VDBP RS4701 VARIANT, BUT NOT VDR/RXR-? OVER-EXPRESSION WITH BONE MINERAL DENSITY IN PEDIATRIC ?-THALASSEMIA PATIENTS

Shaimaa Sahmoud, Mostafa S. Ibrahim, Eman A. Toraih, Noha Kamel, Manal Fawzy, Samar Elfiky

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.037

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A SEROPREVALENCE OF HBV, HCV AND HIV-1 AND CORRELATION WITH MOLECULAR MARKERS AMONG MULTI-TRANSFUSED THALASSEMIA PATIENTS IN WESTERN INDIA

Kanchan Mishra, Avani Shah, Krima Patel, Kanjaksha Ghosh, Sumit Bharadva

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.038

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A MULTICENTRE ICET-A STUDY OF CONFIRMED SARS-COV-2 INFECTION IN PATIENTS WITH HEMOGLOBINOPATHIES: PRELIMINARY DATA FROM 10 COUNTRIES

Vincenzo De Sanctis

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.046

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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

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.055

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IMPACT OF EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTIONS ON PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS DURING ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION: A RANDOMIZED STUDY.

Marco Cioce, Franziska Michaela Lohmeyer, Rossana Moroni, Marinella Magini, Alessandra Giraldi, Paola Garau, Maria Carola Gifuni, Vezio Savoia, Danilo Celli, Stefano Botti, Gianpaolo Gargiulo, Francesca Bonifazi, Fabio Ciceri, Ivana Serra, Maurizio Zega, Simona Sica, Andrea Bacigalupo, Valerio De Stefano, Umberto Moscato

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.067

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Archi-Prevaleat project. A National Register of color-Doppler ultrasonography of the epi-aortic vessels in Patients Living with HIV

S Martini, S Ferrara, C Bellacosa, B M Ceresia, F Taccari, G Di Filippo, A Tartaglia, G Gaeta, Paolo Maggi

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.018

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Calreticulin mutation survey by high resolution melting method associated with unique presentations in essential thrombocythemic patients

Yi-Chang Liu, Ching-Ping Lee, Tsung-Jang Yeh, Yuh-Ching Gau, Chieh-Yu Hsieh, Ya-Lun Ke, Jeng-Shiun Du, Ming-Hui Lin, Hui-Ching Wang, Shih-Hao Tang, Shih-Feng Cho, Jui-Feng Hsu, Samuel Yien Hsiao, Chin-Mu Hsu, Hui-Hua Hsiao

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.022

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Limiting the Impact of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus in Patients Undergoing Haploidentical Transplantation

SUPARNO CHAKRABARTI, Sarita Rani Jaiswal, Gitali Bhagwati

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.024

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Extending Long Term Follow-up of Patient With Acute Myeloid Leukemia after Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation: disclosing late mortality and causes of death.

Federica Sorà, Patrizia Chiusolo, luca laurenti, idanna innocenti, francesco autore, andrea corbingi, andrea corbingi, sabrina giammarco, elisabetta metafuni, andrea bacigalupo, simona sica

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.030

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Focusing On A Unique Innate Memory Cell Population Of Natural Killer Cells In The Fight Against COVID-19: Harnessing The Ubiquity Of Cytomegalovirus Exposure

SUPARNO CHAKRABARTI

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.047

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Cytomegalovirus genotype distribution among postnatally infected infants: association of glycoprotein B, glycoprotein N and glycoprotein H types with CMV-associated thrombocytopenia

Hongbo Hu, Ying Cheng, Qiaoying Peng, Kun Chen

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.057

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Factors VIII and von Willebrand levels in women undergoing Assisted Reproduction: are their levels associated with clinical pregnancy outcome?

Monica Attanasio, Michela Cirillo, Maria Elisabetta Coccia, Giancarlo Castaman, Cinzia Fatini

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.058

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A retrospective descriptive study characterizing coronavirus disease epidemiology among people in the Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Nawfal R Hussein, Ibrahim A Naqid, Zana Sidiq M. Saleem

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.061

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SARS-CoV-2 Transmission and Outcome in Neuro-rehabilitation patients hospitalized at Neuroscience Hospital in Italy

Francesco Di Gennaro

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.063

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Ceftolozane-Tazobatam for febrile neutropenia treatment in hematologic malignancy patients colonized by multi-resistant Enterobacteriaceae: preliminary results from a prospective cohort study

Francesco Marchesi, Fabrizio Ensoli, Irene Terrenato, Elena Papa, Fulvia Pimpinelli, Grazia Prignano, Antonio Spadea, Ilaria Cavallo, Enea Gino Di Domenico, Luigi Toma, Andrea Mengarelli

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.065

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Experiences with next-generation sequencing in relapsed acute myeloid leukemia: a patient case series

Dr. Johanna Flach, Dr. Evgenii Shumilov, Dr. Naomi Porret, Inna Shakhanova, Myriam Legros, Dr. Marie-Noëlle Kronig, Dr. Raphael Joncourt, Prof. Ulrike Bacher, Prof. Thomas Pabst

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.068

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Chronic-graft-versus-host-disease-related polymyositis: a 17-months-old child with a rare and late complication of haematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Matteo Chinello, Rita Balter, Massimiliano De Bortoli, Virginia Vitale, Ada Zaccaron, Elisa Bonetti, Paola Tonin, Gaetano Vattemi, Valeria Guglielmi, Simone Cesaro

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.002

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Successful planned pregnancy through vitrified-warmed embryo transfer in a woman with chronic myeloid leukemia: case report and literature review

Toshifumi Takahashi

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.005

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Hepatic Infiltration with Malignant T-cells Manifesting as Impending Acute Liver failure in Mycosis Fungoides with Large Cell Transformation

Yumeng Zhang, Jinming Song, David Rutenberg, Lubomir Sokol

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.007

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Isavuconazole therapy of disseminated and encephalic Saprochaete capitata infection in an acute myeloid leukemia patient treated with midostaurin.

Salvatore Perrone, Chiara Lisi, Elettra Ortu La Barbera, Cristina Luise, Miriam Lichtner, Corrado Girmenia, Giuseppe Cimino

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.026

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The First Case of Concomitant Mycobacterium genavense lymphadenitis and EBV-positive lymphoproliferative disorder

Yusuke Ito, Kensuke Takaoka, Kazuhiro Toyama, Yoshitaka Wakabayashi, Aya Shinozaki-Ushiku, Aiko Okazaki, Kinuyo Chikamatsu, Satoshi Mitarai, Tetsuo Ushiku, Mineo Kurokawa

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.035

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Impressive continuous complete response after mogamulizumab in a heavily pre-treated Sézary syndrome patient

Pier Luigi Zinzani, Ginevra Lolli, Beatrice Casadei, Lisa Argnani, Laura Nanni, Michele Cavo

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.040

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Successful Outcomes of Severe COVID-19 in Patient with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: Diagnostic Challenges in Immunocompromised Hosts

Alexandre Malek

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.044

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Improvement of liver involvement in familial Mediterranean fever after introduction of canakinumab: a case report

Maria Grazia Massaro, Maurizio Pompili, Ludovico Luca Sicignano, Fabrizio Pizzolante, Elena Verrecchia, Fabio Maria Vecchio, Donato Rigante, Raffaele Manna

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.059

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Cytomegalovirus-Induced Gastrointestinal Bleeding and Pancreatitis Complicating Severe Covid-19 Pneumonia: a Paradigmatic Case.

Giacomo Marchi, Alice Vianello, Ernesto Crisafulli, Alessio Maroccia, Stefano Francesco Crinò, Sara Pecori, Giulia A Zamboni, Fulvia Mazzaferri, Evelina Tacconelli, Domenico Girelli

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.060

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COVID-19 post hematopoietic cell transplant, a report of 11 cases from a single center.

Afadil Adam

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.070

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The efficacy and safety of intralesional sodium stibogluconate for the treatment of cutaneous Leishmaniasis in children under the age of two years

Nawfal R Hussein, ibrahim naqid, Haval Salih

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.027

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Covid-19 and Children with Immune Thrombocytopenia: emerging issues

Giuseppe Lassandro, Valentina Palladino, Viviana Valeria Palmieri, Anna Amoruso, Giovanni Carlo Del Vecchio, Paola Giordano

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.028

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SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) and Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML): a case report and review of ABL kinase involvement in viral infection

Elisabetta Abruzzese, Luigia Luciano, Francesco D'Agostino, Malgorzata Monika Trawinska, Fabrizio Pane, Paolo de Fabritiis

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.031

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Delivery in asymptomatic Italian woman with SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Giuseppe Vittorio De Socio, Lisa Malincarne, Saverio Arena, Stefania Troiani, Sara Benedetti, Barbara Camilloni, Giorgio Epicoco, Antonella Mencacci, Daniela Francisci

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.033

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Burkitt lymphoma as fourth neoplasia in a patient affected by Cowden Syndrome with a novel PTEN germline pathogenic variant

Eugenio Galli, Francesco D’Alò, Annarosa Cuccaro, Eleonora Alma, Elena Maiolo, Fulvia Brugnoletti, Luigi Maria Larocca, Marcella Zollino, Andrea Paolo Bacigalupo, Stefan Hohaus

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.034

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MANAGEMENT OF PEDIATRIC RHEUMATOLOGICAL DISEASES DURING THE OUTBREAK OF COVID-19: OUR EXPERIENCE

Romina Gallizzi, Diana Sutera, Francesca Mazza, Alessandra Spagnolo, Giovanni Battista Pajno

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.049

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A socioeconomic paradox in the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy: a call to study determinants of disease severity in high and low income Countries

Marialaura Bonaccio, Licia Iacoviello, Maria Benedetta Donati, Giovanni de Gaetano

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.051

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Spontaneous and severe haematomas in patients with COVID-19 on low-molecular-weight heparin for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

Maria Mazzitelli, Francesca Serapide, Bruno Tassone, Domenico Laganà, Enrico Maria Trecarichi, Carlo Torti

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.054

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Guidance for Facing Dilemmas of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Clinicians in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic: An Iranian Consensus

Seied Asadollah Mousavi, Soroush Rad, Tahereh Rostami, Mohammad Vaezi, Hosein Kamranzadeh, Davood Babakhani, Sahar Tavakoli, Maryam Barkhordar, Tanaz Bahri, Amirabbas Hedayatiasl, azade kiumarsi

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.050

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Severe autoimmune hemolytic anemia in Covid-19 infection

Fehmi Hindilerden, Ipek Yonal-Hindilerden, Emre Akar, Zuhal Yesilbag, Kadriye Kart-Yasar

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.053

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Impact of SARS CoV-2 in hemoglobinopathies: a protective mechanism being from Beta chain Hemoglobin defects?

Lorenza Torti, Laura Maffei, Francesco Sorrentino, Paolo De Fabritiis, Rossella Miceli, Elisabetta Abruzzese

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.052

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Pidotimod in paucisymptomatic SARS-CoV2 infected patients

Claudio Ucciferri, Barone Mirko, Jacopo Vecchiet, Katia Falasca

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.048

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Treatment-free remission in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia harboring atypical BCR-ABL1 transcripts.

Matteo Dragani, Jessica Petiti, Giovanna Rege-Cambrin, Enrico Gottardi, Filomena Daraio, Giovanni Caocci, Chiara Aguzzi, Elena Crisà, Giacomo Andreani, Francesca Caciolli, Carmen Fava

DOI https://doi.org/10.4084/mjhid.2020.066

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