Effect of wheat grass therapy on transfusion requirement in beta-thalassemia major.

Objective: To assess the efficacy of wheat grass juice on transfusion requirement in patients with beta thalassemia major.

Methods: Fifty-three patients of thalassemia major with a median age of 16 years were given wheat grass juice tablets.

Results: The Mean pre and post wheat grass therapy, the pack cell requirement was 288.

Intracranial hemorrhage in childhood immune thrombocytopenic purpura.

We retrospectively analyzed 750 patients with ITP for development of intracranial hemorrhage (ICH). Seventeen cases with age range of 10 months to 18 years were studied. Ten patients were of acute ITP and seven had chronic ITP.

Hb SE disease: a clinico-hematological profile.

Hb S and Hb E are globally common hemoglobinopathies. However, Hb SE double heterozygous state is uncommon, with only 25 cases reported so far in literature. We present two more cases.

Cyclosporin A in myelodysplastic syndrome: a preliminary report.

Therapeutic approaches are not well established in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). We evaluated response to cyclosporin A (CyA) in 19 cases with MDS who were enrolled for the study [13 refractory anemia (RA), 5 refractory anemia with excess of blasts (RAEB), and 1 refractory anemia with ringed sideroblasts (RARS)]. Bone marrow was normocellular in ten, hypercellular in five, and hypocellular in four cases.