[The results of using differentiated programs of therapy in acute lymphoblastic leukemia in adults].

Results of the treatment of 30 adult patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia are analyzed. Before the treatment was commenced, the patients were distributed into groups with a favourable, intermediate and unfavourable prognosis depending on the signs previously defined by the authors. In the phase of induction and consolidation of a remission, the treatment intensity in these groups varied.

[Monoclonal antibodies ICO-11 in the prognostic evaluation of acute nonlymphoblastic leukemia].

The antigen detectable with monoclonal antibodies ICO-11 was studied in cells of 33 patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and 47 patients with acute non-lymphoblastic leukemia (ANLL). The incidence rate of antigen-positive cases in ALL comprised 39.4%, in ANLL 35.

Two different anti-erythroid monoclonal antibodies in immunodiagnosis of human leukemias: a comparative study.

To date, only anti-glycophorin-A monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) have been widely used as anti-erythroid probes in the diagnosis of leukemias. We have examined blood, bone-marrow and lymph-node samples from 474 patients, adults and children, with different hemopoietic malignancies, using a panel of MAbs including 2 anti-erythroid MAbs directed to glycophorin-A and an antigen of erythroblasts, Ag-Eb. MAb HAE9 directed against a human epitope of Ag-Eb has earlier been shown to be highly specific for immature erythroid cells.

[Late results of the treatment of acute granulocytic leukemia in adults].

Eighteen patients with acute granulocytic leukemia (MI-1, M2-10, M3-1 and M4-6) underwent AdOAP treatment. Complete remissions were achieved in 10 out of the 18 patients (55.6%), 3 patients proved resistant, 5 had died prior to recovery of normal hemopoiesis.

[Mycotic complications in acute leukemia (personal observations and review of the literature)].

The authors reported some data on the frequency and spectrum of mycotic infections in 76 adult patients with different types of acute leukemia over the last 3 years. The growth of fungi of various species was noted in 50 (23%) of 213 bacteriological tests, candidomycetes being the most common type. Three patients with aspergillosis were described in detail, in 2 of them intravital diagnosis was established.

[Criteria for differentiated approaches to the therapy of lymphoblastic leukemia in adults].

The results of programmed therapy of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in 31 adult patients were analyzed. Ph-positive ALL were marked in 5 patients. Low hemosuppressive induction, heavy consolidation and multidrug maintenance therapy was used.