Publications by authors named "N M Carpio"
Article Synopsis
- Localized cystic kidney disease (LCKD) is a specific kidney disorder marked by cysts in certain kidney areas, demonstrated in a case of a 41-year-old man with urinary symptoms and hematuria.
- Initial diagnosis revealed a urinary tract infection, but follow-up imaging showed a concerning 2.6 cm cystic lesion in the right kidney, leading to surgical intervention.
- The report highlights LCKD's benign nature, differences from progressive renal diseases, various symptoms, diagnostic methods, and similarities in tissue findings with conditions like polycystic kidney disease.
A case of megaloblastic anemia simulating a cold autoimmune hemolytic anemia.
Immunohematology
September 2020
We report a case of pernicious anemia in which the first diagnosis suspicion was cold autoimmune hemolytic anemia (cAIHA) due to the presence of cold autoantibodies. A 47-year-old woman with a medical history of autoimmune thyroid disease came to the hospital with a clinical and serologic presentation of AIHA. However, because of determination of vitamin B12 (VB12) deficiency, she was finally diagnosed with megaloblastic anemia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe analyzed the outcomes of 26 consecutive patients with acquired severe aplastic anemia (SAA) undergoing peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT) with partial ex vivo T cell depletion with a targeted T cell dose from HLA-identical sibling donors. The median patient age was 37 years (range, 3 to 63 years). Four patients with uncontrolled pneumonia at the time of transplantation died, on days +1, +2, +21, and +26.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Umbilical cord blood transplantation (UCBT) and haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (haplo-HSCT) modalities have been developed to offset the lack of matched donors. In this study, we compare the transfusion requirements of patients undergoing UCBT and haplo-HSCT in a single institution with the aim of providing additional information for clinicians to choose the most adequate alternative graft for HSCT.
Methods: The study reviewed 67 and 46 patients undergoing UCBT and haplo-HSCT, respectively.