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 Datesort icon Article Title Journal Title Primary Author Bone Marrow Disease(s)
06/01/2009 Iron overload in myelodysplastic syndromes. Expert Rev Hematol Chodirker L myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)
06/15/2009 Multicenter study of decitabine administered daily for 5 days every 4 weeks to adults with myelodysplastic syndromes: the alternative dosing for outpatient treatment (ADOPT) trial. J Clin Oncol Steensma DP myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)
07/01/2009 Phase II study of rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin, cyclosporine and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor in patients with aplastic anemia and myelodysplastic syndrome Leukemia Garg R aplastic anemia, myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)
07/01/2009 Infections in patients with aplastic anemia. Semin Hematol Valdez JM aplastic anemia
07/15/2009 Defining prior therapy in myelodysplastic syndromes and criteria for relapsed and refractory disease: implications for clinical trial design and enrollment. Blood Sekeres MA myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)
07/15/2009 Prognostic impact of age and gender in 897 untreated patients with primary myelodysplastic syndromes. Ann Oncol Nösslinger T myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)
09/01/2009 Improved outcome of patients older than 30 years receiving HLA-identical sibling hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for severe acquired aplastic anemia using fludarabine-based conditioning: a comparison with conventional conditioning regimen. Haematologica Maury S aplastic anemia
09/10/2009 Smoking and alcohol intake as risk factors for myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Leuk Res Du Y myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)
09/30/2009 Diagnostic tools in the indications for allogeneic stem cell transplantation in myelodysplastic syndromes. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant Bacher U myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)
10/01/2009 Successful discontinuation of anticoagulation following eculizumab administration in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria. Am J Hematol Emadi A paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)