British journal of haematology

Heavy periods are a common cause of anaemia in women of reproductive age. We compare the prevalence of anaemia and heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) among women in the United Kingdom and Australia. Women aged 15-50 years were recruited through…

Iron deficiency (ID), with or without anaemia, remains a significant global health issue among adolescents. Despite its high prevalence and impact on physical and cognitive function, ID is often underrecognized and undertreated. Adolescent …

To illustrate the challenges in the management of women with Glanzmann thrombasthenia (GT) planning a pregnancy, we conducted a literature review and present a case series of eight women giving detailed descriptions of reproductive health p…

The αVβ3 receptor is a member of the integrin family of receptors, which includes 24 members involved in a variety of key biological processes. It is widely expressed in multiple cell types and is involved in cell adhesion and migration, an…

We compared serum anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) levels in women with sickle cell disease (SCD) (n = 152) to those of Black comparison women (n = 128) between the ages of 20 and 45 years and evaluated the impact of hydroxyurea (HU) and iron o…

Transfusion of storage-damaged red blood cells (RBCs) increases non-transferrin-bound iron (NTBI) levels in humans. This can potentially enhance virulence of microorganisms. In this study, Pseudomonas aeruginosa replication and biofilm prod…

Reproductive health may be adversely impacted in women with dyskeratosis congenita (DC) and related telomere biology disorders (TBD). We evaluated gynaecological problems, fertility, and pregnancy outcomes in 39 females aged 10-81 years who…

There is an immediate need to address long-standing questions about the reproductive health of girls and women with sickle cell disease (SCD). There are many SCD-related reproductive risks and uncertainties across girls' and women's reprodu…

Progressive cytopenia is a serious complication among paediatric patients with inherited bone marrow failure syndromes (IBMFS). Androgens have been used to improve blood counts in different bone marrow failure conditions. Little is known ab…

Dyskeratosis Congenita (DC) is a multi-system disorder of telomere biology in which bone marrow (BM) failure is the main cause of mortality (Savage & Bertuch, 2010; Mason & Bessler, 2011). The disease spectrum has expanded considerably sinc…

Peripheral cytopenias are common in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes. We previously successfully treated three such patients with improvement of some cytopenias with the impeded androgen danazol. To confirm this finding and elucidate…

Androgens are considered the treatment of choice for the anaemia of myelofibrosis with myeloid metaplasia (MMM). Good results have been reported in a few patients treated with danazol, a synthetic attenuated androgen. The long-term efficacy…

Evans syndrome is an uncommon condition defined by the combination (either simultaneously or sequentially) of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) and autoimmune haemolytic anaemia (AIHA) with a positive direct antiglobulin test (DAT) in the absen…

It is difficult to obtain enough human macrophages for extensive in vitro study, hence our relatively poor understanding of the mechanisms whereby human, as opposed to murine, macrophages kill tumours. Yet millions of macrophages are discar…

Tefferi et al (1997 ) presented their results on the use of 2-chlorodeoxyadenosine (2-CDA) in nine patients with myelofibrosis. They reported that 2-CDA was an effective palliative treatment after splenectomy in non-cytopenic patients. Here…

Twenty patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and (i) platelets < 50 x 10(9)/l and (ii) bone marrow blasts < or = 10% were treated with androgen therapy (fluoxymesterone at 1 mg/kg/d: seven patients; danazol at 600 mg/d: 13 patients)…

Macrophages represent the primary line of host defences in the peritoneal cavity. In order to study the metabolic activity and maturation stage of human resident peritoneal macrophages (PM phi). peritoneal fluid (PF) was taken by Douglas pu…

Ten adult patients with warm antibody haemolytic anaemia at initial presentation and seven other patients with either refractory AIHA (two patients) or who relapsed after an initial response to prednisone (five patients) were treated with b…

The treatment of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) includes corticosteroids, danazol, splenectomy and various immunosuppressives. Treatment can be difficult for those patients refractory to these modalities and/or those patients int…

Twenty-one patients, 14 with haemophilia A and seven with haemophilia B, completed a double-blind crossover study to evaluate the effects of danazol on factor VIII and factor IX levels. Clotting and immunoradiometric assays were used to mea…