Publications by authors named "Shigehisa Mori"

Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is usually resistant to the current standard-of-care regimens and also to novel agents such as the proteasome inhibitor bortezomib. A better prognosis of leukemic variants of MCL suggests that MCL cells acquire drug resistance in nodal and/or bone marrow microenvironments via interaction with supporting cells. Bortezomib exerts cytotoxic action in MCL cells via stabilization of the pro-apoptotic BCL-2 family protein NOXA.

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Primary cardiac lymphoma is extremely rare and is associated with a poor prognosis. In most cases, cardiac involvement occurs as a late symptom and the diagnosis is thus delayed. We herein report a 35-year-old woman with cardiac diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) with breast infiltration.

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Bendamustine has shown considerable clinical activity against indolent lymphoid malignancies as a single agent or in combination with rituximab, but combination with additional anti-cancer drugs may be required for refractory and/or relapsed cases as well as other intractable tumors. In this study, we attempted to determine suitable anti-cancer drugs to be combined with bendamustine for the treatment of mantle cell lymphoma, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, aggressive lymphomas and multiple myeloma, all of which are relatively resistant to this drug, and investigated the mechanisms underlying synergism. Isobologram analysis revealed that bendamustine had synergistic effects with alkylating agents (4-hydroperoxy-cyclophosphamide, chlorambucil and melphalan) and pyrimidine analogues (cytosine arabinoside, gemcitabine and decitabine) in HBL-2, B104, Namalwa and U266 cell lines, which represent the above entities respectively.

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A 37-year-old female who presented with pancytopenia in April 2008 was diagnosed with aplastic anemia stage 2 with a normal karyotype. She had a PNH phenotype in her red blood cells (RBC) and granulocytes, and HLA DR15. Her aplastic anemia was deteriorated from stage 2 to stage 3, and she required periodic RBC transfusions.

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Despite numerous attempts to uncover the mechanism of other iatrogenic immunodeficiency-associated lymphoproliferative diseases (OIIA-LPDs), this mechanism remains poorly understood, especially in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. We analyzed the data on 23 patients with LPDs and RA. Patients were categorized into three groups according to whether they had methotrexate (MTX); MTX-regressive LPDs, MTX-persistent LPDs or other drugs-mediated LPDs.

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Bortezomib is a potent agent for multiple myeloma (MM); however, severe treatment-related toxicities such as peripheral neuropathy have been observed in conjunction with its use. In this study, we present the cases of 9 patients with refractory MM whose administration schedule was modified from twice weekly to an interval of once weekly or longer mainly due to adverse events. The average duration from diagnosis to the time of bortezomib induction was 56 months.

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An 83-year-old woman had been suffering from palpitations and fatigue for a month. An annual screening test revealed an increased WBC count so she was referred to our hospital. CBC showed extremely elevated WBC count (186,300/microl), in which the population of blastic eosinophils was over 90%.

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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease mediated by inflammatory processes mainly at the joints. Recently, awareness of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated T-cell lymphoproliferative disorder (T-LPD) has been heightened for its association with methotraxate usage in RA patients. In the contrary, acute myeloid leukemia with multilineage dysplasia (AML-MLD) has never been documented to be present concomitantly with the above two conditions.

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We report a case of primary hepatic non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in a 67-year-old man with chronic hepatitis C. Laboratory data revealed slightly elevated liver function parameters and positive for hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody. Abdominal ultrasonography showed hypoechoic lesions approximately 5 mm in diameter in the whole liver.

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Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) is in general a lymph node-based disease. Hepatic involvement usually occurs in the advanced disease. Primary and prominent manifestation of the disease in the liver is extremely rare.

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We here report the case of a young Japanese woman diagnosed with chronic active Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection. Intensive therapy with the CHOP regimen was partially able to control virus expansion, but various central nervous system symptoms appeared and gradually progressed. EBV-encoded RNA, detected using in situ hybridization, disclosed the presence of EBV in liver and bone marrow tissue, and real-time PCR revealed the presence of EBV in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and serum.

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A 69-year-old male was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis(RA) in 1994. Good control of the RA activity had been obtained with sodium aurothiomalate (GST). However, polyarthritis reappeared in January 2003.

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Basophils play an important role in allergic inflammation and are pathologically related to hematological disturbances, such as iron deficiency anemia and myeloproliferative disorders; however, they are only rarely encountered in lymphoid malignancies. Here, we report the case of a 33-year-old man with a bulky mass of the small intestine, multiple paraaortic lymphoadenopathy, pleural effusion, and ascites, who was diagnosed as a case of de novo CD5+ diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL). This patient showed a marked elevation of the basophil count in the peripheral blood, which appeared to run in parallel with the tumor burden.

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Serum soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR) has been reported to be higher in patients with iron deficiency or with elevated erythropoiesis. In the present study, serum sTfR was measured in various anemic diseases and their clinical significance was examined in a multi-institutional joint study. Serum sTfRs in patients with the following anemic diseases were markedly higher than those in normal healthy adults: non-treated iron deficiency anemia (IDA) (9.

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Musculoskeletal and central nervous system infections caused by Bacillus cereus are very rare. Only a few cases have been reported, whose clinical courses strongly suggested that surgical procedures combined with appropriate antimicrobial therapy are necessary to cure these infections. A 60-year-old man with severe neutropenia due to myelodysplastic syndrome, developing necrotizing fasciitis and brain abscess caused by Bacillus cereus is reported.

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The t(2;5)(p23;q35) translocation results in the formation of a unique chimeric NPM-ALK protein (p80). Expression of this protein is considered to be one of the clinical features of anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL). Recently recognized as one clinical subtype of ALCL, the small cell variant is prone to have a leukemic presentation.

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