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  1. Meningopatia leucémica em paciente com remissão hematológica tratado com sucesso pelo Amethopterin Intratecal

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    Mário Ritter

    1965-03-01

    Full Text Available É apresentado um caso de meningopatia leucêmica com um quadro de hipertensão intracraniana, que surgiu 18 meses após a remissão clínica e hematológica de leucemia aguda. A terapêutica por via intratecal com o Amethopterin, na dose de 5 mg, repetida 6 vêzes e com intervalos de 5 a 7 dias, proporcionou melhora clínica imediata e normalização do LCR após dois meses de tratamento. O paciente continuou bem clinicamente e com o sangue e o LCR normais após 4 meses de observação. A experiência dêste caso e daqueles citados na literatura justificam que todos os pacientes leucêmicos sejam cuidadosamente observados a fim de se poder diagnosticar precocemente uma complicação neurológica, para que o tratamento adequado possa permitir maior sobrevida. O exame do LCR tem importância decisiva no diagnóstico desta complicação; ulteriormente, os exames seriados do LCR orientam a duração e a intensidade do tratamento. A padronização do tratamento das complicações neurológicas das leucemias constitui campo aberto às investigações.

  2. Dose—response relationships for agents inhibiting the immune response

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    Berenbaum, M. C.; Brown, I. N.

    1964-01-01

    Mice were injected with T.A.B. vaccine and, 2 days later, with various doses of different compounds. The relation between dose of compound, mortality and antibody production was studied, and therapeutic indices were calculated for a number of compounds. The most effective agent in suppressing antibody production at relatively non-toxic doses was cyclophosphamide, with next amethopterin (the effect of which was, however, inexplicably erratic), 6-thioguanine and 6-mercaptopurine, in that order. Vincaleukoblastine, triethylene melamine, triethylenethiophosphoramide, mannomustine and 5-fluorouracil were less effective. Compounds of a miscellaneous group (boric acid, caffeine, sodium nitrite, bacitracin, neomycin and polymyxin `B') were studied in the same way: they had no effect on antibody production, even in lethal doses. PMID:14113077

  3. Effects and Complications of Bone-Marrow Transplantation in Man

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    Mathe, G.; Schwarzenberg, L.; Miel, J.L. A; Schneider, M.; Cattan, A.; Schlumberger, J. R. [Institut de cancerologie et immunogenetique, Hopital Paul Brousse, Villejuif (France)

    1969-07-15

    Full text: Allogenic bone-marrow grafting in 24 human leukaemic subjects is described. The graft failed in 7 cases and took in 17 cases. In the latter group, all 17 cases were complicated by the secondary syndrome which was-fatal in 13 cases and controlled in 4 cases. The immunogenetic and immunological factors determining the establishment and evolution of haematological radiochimeras in man are discussed. The choice of donor is fundamental. Three tests are effective in donor selection, the indirect histocompatibility test, the leucocyte antigen test and the reaction of donor and recipient leucocytes in the dermis of an irradiated hamster. When marrow from several donors is transfused, the recipient spontaneously selects the genetically nearest. It seems likely there is more chance of finding a suitable donor among genetically related subjects than among those who are unrelated. The frequency of graft take seems slightly lower in recipients who have previously received blood transfusions. Total bone-marrow graft is associated with specific tolerance towards donor tissues. This is paralleled by the production in the chimera of immunoglobulins produced by the graft. The secondary syndrome seems, as in animals, to be related essentially to the graft-versus-host reaction. It is convenient to distinguish among its various manifestations, on the one hand, those lesions which are readily controlled such as hepatitis or erythrodermia associated with infiltration and proliferation of immunologically competent cells from the graft and, on the other hand, immune insufficiency with regard to micro-organisms, especially viruses and Candida albicans. This latter group, the mechanism of which is complex, still eludes attempts at preventive and curative control. The use of multiple donors and the administration of cortisone during marrow transfusion and A-methopterin and/or cyclophosphamide in the days following transfusions; seem to have reduced the severity of the secondary