1. Comparison of effects of different long-term iron-chelation regimens on myocardial and hepatic iron concentrations assessed with T2* magnetic resonance imaging in patients with β-thalassemia major

   • Vassilios Perifanis
   • Athanasios Christoforidis
   • Miranda Athanassiou-Metaxa

   OriginalPaper 01 December 2007 Pages: 385 - 389

2. Conjunctival hemorrhagic events associated with imatinib mesylate

   • Franca Radaelli
   • Claudia Vener
   • Giorgio Lambertenghi Deliliers

   Case Report 01 December 2007 Pages: 390 - 393

3. Primary adult-onset macrophage activation syndrome with multisystemic tissue phagocytosis

   • Anastasios Andreopoulos
   • Xanthi Yiakoumis
   • George Vaiopoulos

   Case Report 01 December 2007 Pages: 394 - 396

4. Risk factors of venous thromboembolism in Thai patients

   • Pantep Angchaisuksiri
   • Vichai Atichartakarn
   • Arjit Tiraganjana

   OriginalPaper 01 December 2007 Pages: 397 - 402

5. Successful combined use of tranexamic acid and unfractionated heparin for life-threatening bleeding associated with intravascular coagulation in a patient with chronic myelogenous leukemia in blast crisis

   • Mihoko Koseki
   • Noboru Asada
   • Kosei Matsue

   Case Report 01 December 2007 Pages: 403 - 406

6. Molecular characterization of 3 factor V mutations, R2174L, V1813M, and a 5-bp deletion, that cause factor V deficiency

   • Keiko Shinozawa
   • Kagehiro Amano
   • Katsuyuki Fukutake

   OriginalPaper 01 December 2007 Pages: 407 - 413

7. Wilms Tumor gene WT1 peptide-based immunotherapy induced a minimal response in a patient with advanced therapy-resistant multiple myeloma

   • Akihiro Tsuboi
   • Yoshihiro Oka
   • Haruo Sugiyama

   Case Report 01 December 2007 Pages: 414 - 417

8. Feasibility and obstacles in home chemotherapy for malignant lymphoma

   • Yuko Kodama
   • Masahiro Kami
   • Tsunehiko Komatsu

   Case Report 01 December 2007 Pages: 418 - 421

9. Prognostic significance ofFLT3 internal tandem duplication andNPM1 mutations in acute myeloid leukemia in an unselected patient population

   • Rikio Suzuki
   • Makoto Onizuka
   • Kiyoshi Ando

   OriginalPaper 01 December 2007 Pages: 422 - 428

10. Transcription factors Xbp-1, Blimp-1, and BSAP are involved in the regulation of plasmacytic differentiation induced by 2-methoxyestradiol in myeloma cell lines

    • Hua Jiang
    • WeiRan Gao
    • Jian Hou

    OriginalPaper 01 December 2007 Pages: 429 - 437

11. Treatment of streptozotocin-induced diabetes mellitus in mice by intra—bone marrow bone marrow transplantation plus portal vein injection of β cells induced from bone marrow cells

    • M. Li
    • M. Inaba
    • S. Ikehara

    OriginalPaper 01 December 2007 Pages: 438 - 445

12. The effect of donor leukocyte infusion on refractory pure red blood cell aplasia after allogeneic stem cell transplantation in a patient with myelodysplastic syndrome developing from kostmann syndrome

    • Yasuhiro Ebihara
    • Atsushi Manabe
    • Kohichiro Tsuji

    OriginalPaper 01 December 2007 Pages: 446 - 450

13. Switching of donor cells after urgent second cord blood transplantation for suspected graft failure

    • Naoko Satoh
    • Shoko Takenouchi
    • Tadashi Koike

    Case Report 01 December 2007 Pages: 451 - 454

14. Frequent exacerbation of pulmonary nocardiosis during maintenance antibiotic therapies in a hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipient

    • Kazuhiko Kakihana
    • Kazuteru Ohashi
    • Hisashi Sakamaki

    Case Report 01 December 2007 Pages: 455 - 458

15. Quantitative assessment of elevated D-dimers

    • Gabriela Barizzi
    • Lorenzo Alberio

    Letter to the Editor 01 December 2007 Pages: 459 - 460

16. A diagnostic dilemma in stem cell transplantation for β-Thalassemia major: progressive loss of take or pure red cell aplasia?

    • Giuseppe Visani
    • Moira Lucesole
    • Alessandro Isidori

    Letter to the Editor 01 December 2007 Pages: 461 - 462

17. Graft-versus-myeloma effects in reduced-intensity cord blood transplantation

    • Yuji Miura
    • Takayuki Azuma
    • Tsunehiko Komatsua

    Letter to the Editor 01 December 2007 Pages: 463 - 465

18. Encouraging Results of Low-Dose Etoposide in the Treatment of Early-Onset Hemophagocytic Syndrome Following Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

    • Maho Koyama
    • Akihisa Sawada
    • Keisei Kawa

    Letter to the Editor 01 December 2007 Pages: 466 - 467

19. Breast cancer and chronic myeloid leukemia: A short review

    • Hüseyin Engin
    • Ayla Gökmen Aköz

    Letter to the Editor 01 December 2007 Pages: 468 - 469

20. Serum granulysin is elevated in patients with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis

    • Masayuki Nagasawa
    • Kazuyuki Ogawa
    • Shuki Mizutani

    Letter to the Editor 01 December 2007 Pages: 470 - 473