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.


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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 Titlesort icon Primary Author Bone Marrow Disease(s)
09/28/2012 Methylation of the p73 gene in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes: correlations with apoptosis and prognosis Tumour Biol Zhao Y myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)
04/01/2010 Thrombosis in Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria - insights into the role of complement in thrombosis. Thromb Res Weitz IC paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)
12/03/2012 Azacitidine in the management of patients with myelodysplastic syndromes. Ther Adv Hematol Khan C myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)
03/31/2011 Thrombosis in patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria. Semin Thromb Hemost Weitz IC paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)
07/01/2009 Infections in patients with aplastic anemia. Semin Hematol Valdez JM aplastic anemia
07/01/2010 Thrombocytopenia in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes. Semin Hematol Bryan J myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)
10/01/2012 The Non-transplant Treatment of Myelodysplastic Syndromes-What's on the Horizon? Semin Hematol Kulasekararaj AG myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)
10/01/2012 Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes Semin Hematol Platzbecker U myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)
10/01/2012 Clinical results with the DNA hypomethylating agent 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine (decitabine) in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes: an update Semin Hematol Joeckel TE myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)
10/01/2012 Lenalidomide for del(5q) and Non-del(5q) Myelodysplastic Syndromes Semin Hematol Giagounidis AA myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)