A single apheresis procedure in the donor may be enough to complete an allograft using the "Mexican method" of non-ablative allografting.

Background: Since 1999, in Mexico we have been using a regimen to conduct allografts that involves non-myeloablative conditioning and peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) and have introduced some changes with the main goal of decreasing the cost of the procedure.

Materials And Methods: We analysed the salient apheresis features of a group of 175 allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplants conducted in two institutions in a 7-year period. The grafts were conducted using the "Mexican" non-myelo ablative conditioning regimen employing oral busulphan, i.

Primary thrombophilia in México VII: the V617F mutation of JAK2 is not a frequent cause of thrombosis.

The study of the V617F JAK2 gene mutation has been used to identify the presence of an underlying myeloproliferative disorder (MPD) as the cause of unexplained thrombosis. In a group of 77 consecutive Mexican patients with a clinical marker of a primary thrombophilic condition, we looked for this JAK2 mutation and did not find any individual displaying it. Given these results, we conclude that an undetected MPD is a very improbable cause of thromboses in Mexican mestizos, a population where the prevalence of these disorders has been found to be lower than that found in Caucasian populations.

A single-institution, 20-year prospective experience with an affordable Fc-receptor blockade method to treat patients with chronic, refractory autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura.

In a 20-year period in a single institution, 34 patients with chronic, refractory autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura were prospectively treated with ex vivo anti-D opsonized autologous red blood cells. All patients had received previous treatment with steroids and/or immunosuppressive agents, and 11 had been splenectomized. Twenty one patients had an increase in the platelet count; in five cases, the increase was more than 50 x 10(9)/L platelets and in 16 the increase was more than 100 x 10(9)/L platelets.

[Primary thrombophilia in México. VI: lack of statistical association among the inherited thrombophilic conditions].

Objective: Over a 70-month period, 100 consecutive Mexican mestizo individuals with a clinical marker associated with a primary hypercoagulable state were studied.

Methods: We prospectively assessed: the sticky platelet syndrome (SPS), the activated protein C resistance (aPCR) phenotype, coagulation protein C activity and antigen, coagulation protein S, antithrombin III, plasminogen, IgG and IgM isotypes of antiphospholipid antibodies, homocysteine levels, the factor V gene Leiden, Cambridge, Hong Kong, and Liverpool mutations, the 677 C-->T mutation in the 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolatereductase (MTHFR), and the G20210A polymorphism in the 3'-untranslated region of the prothrombin gene.

Results: Of the 100 consecutive patients prospectively accrued in the study, only 29% were males.

The Janus Kinase 2 (JAK2) V617F mutation in hematological malignancies in México.

A new mutation (V617F) affecting the JAK2 gene has been recently described as acquired in patients with myeloproliferative disorders and other myeloid malignancies. Using an amplification refractory mutation system, we investigated this mutation in 70 Mexican mestizo patients with hematological malignancies: 28 cases of acute lymphoblastic leukemia, 17 cases of Ph1-positive chronic myelogenous leukemia, 8 patients with acute myelogenous leukemia, 6 patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, 6 patients with polycythemia vera (PV), two patients with essential thrombocythemia (ET), one patient with hypereosinophilic syndrome one patient with primary myelofibrosis (MF) and one patient with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. The mutation was identified in 4 of 6 patients with PV, in one of 2 patients with ET and in the patient with MF.

t(8;21) (q22;q22) acute myelogenous leukemia in Mexico: a single institution experience.

We analyze the prevalence and clinical features of a group of patients with t(8;21) (q22;q22) acute myeloblastic leukemia, identified in a single institution in México over a 10-year period. Fifteen patients presented at the Centro de Hematología y Medicina Interna de Puebla from February 1995 to August 2005; only nine were treated and followed in the institution. Median age was 24 years, (range 7-49); there was only one male.