Recent Research Information on Aplastic Anemia, MDS, and PNH

AA&MDSIF strives to keep patients, families, and hematology/oncology professionals up-to-date with developments in research and practice relevant to aplastic anemia, MDS and PNH. Shown below are recent articles from major hematology/oncology journals, retrieved from the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed portal to their MEDLINE database of journal citations and abstracts of the biomedical literature from around the world.

Summary information is listed by publication date, title, journal title and senior author. By default, the articles are listed by their publication date in reverse chronological order, from the most recent article to oldest article. Clicking the date column heading will sort them the other way, from oldest to newest.

"Publication date" in most cases means when the article first appeared in the electronic/online issue of a journal, in advance of when it appears in the print journal. Keep in mind some articles may appear online months before appearing in print, and that some may be from online-only journals.

You can also alphabetically and reverse alphabetically sort articles, primary authors and journal titles by clicking their column heading. To find articles by disease type, choose it from the drop-down menu named "Filter by Disease", and only articles about those diseases will appear. The search box labeled “Filter by Search Term” lets you search for a word in the article title, author, or journal name.

When you open an article citation by clicking on the title, article summary information (this time including all authors) is again shown, and in most cases you can view the article abstract. In some cases the abstract is unavailable, and not shown. You can also progress to the article’s PubMed entry by clicking the PubMed ID number link, shown directly under the title. Here you can purchase the article for download viewing or view through your institutional library’s access. In some cases, full text viewing is free either from the publisher’s site or from PubMed Central, an searchable aggregation site of free full text articles.

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Publication Date Article Title Journal Title Primary Author Bone Marrow Disease(s)
04/18/2012 A randomized comparison of cyclophosphamide vs. reduced dose cyclophosphamide plus fludarabine for allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation in patients with aplastic anemia and hypoplastic myelodysplastic syndrome. Ann Hematol. Kim H aplastic anemia
04/01/2012 Allogeneic transplantation for aplastic anemia. Hematology Eapen M. aplastic anemia
04/01/2012 Treatment of acquired aplastic anemia in children. Hematology Kojima S.
01/16/2012 Unrelated cord blood transplantation for newly diagnosed patients with severe acquired aplastic anemia using a reduced-intensity conditioning: high graft rejection, but good survival. Bone Marrow Transplant Liu HL aplastic anemia
01/13/2012 Optimizing hypomethylating agents in myelodysplastic syndromes Curr Opin Hematol Itzykson R myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)
01/12/2012 A Marked Decrease in CD4-Positive Lymphocytes at the Onset of Hepatitis in a Patient With Hepatitis-Associated Aplastic Anemia. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol Ikeda T aplastic anemia
01/11/2012 Mutations in epigenetic regulators in myelodysplastic syndromes Int J Hematol Nikoloski G myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)
01/09/2012 Eculizumab treatment of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria presenting as moyamoya syndrome in a 9-year-old male. Pediatr Blood Cancer Yen TA, Lu MY, Kuo MF, Huang CC, Chen JS, Yang YL paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)
01/06/2012 Combination strategies in myelodysplastic syndromes. Int J Hematol Ornstein MC myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)
01/06/2012 Myelodysplastic syndromes: revisiting the role of the bone marrow microenvironment in disease pathogenesis Int J Hematol Raaijmakers MH. myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)