Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension after Childhood Cancer Therapy and Bone Marrow Transplantation

Cardiology ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 105 (3) ◽  
pp. 188-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alisa Limsuwan ◽  
Samart Pakakasama ◽  
Mana Rochanawutanon ◽  
Suradej Hong-eng
2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Damien Bonnet ◽  
Anne Boutemy ◽  
Younes Boudjemline ◽  
Alain Fischer ◽  
Fanny Bajolle ◽  
...  

2007 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Mastropietro ◽  
Érika Arantes de Oliveira ◽  
Manoel Antônio dos Santos ◽  
Júlio César Voltarelli

OBJETIVO: Traduzir para o português e validar o questionário de qualidade de vida Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Bone Marrow Transplantation (FACT-BMT) em pacientes transplantados de medula óssea. OBJETIVO: O estudo foi realizado em Ribeirão Preto, SP, em 2005. O FACT-BMT (versão 3) traduzido e a versão em português do Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36) foram aplicados simultaneamente em 55 pacientes consecutivos com leucemia, submetidos ao transplante e em seguimento. Dois parâmetros clínicos foram utilizados para testar a sensibilidade do questionário: tempo decorrido do transplante e presença ou não de doença do enxerto contra o hospedeiro. Foi utilizada a análise de variância (ANOVA) com o teste post hoc de Tukey. Aplicou-se o coeficiente alfa de Cronbach, padronizado para todas as questões, escore final e domínios. RESULTADOS: A média de idade dos pacientes foi 34,8±8,1 anos, com escolaridade média de 10,8±4,7 anos, sendo 78,1% do sexo feminino. A duração média de tempo pós-transplante foi de 29,8±32,19 meses. Nenhuma alteração do formato original do questionário foi observada no final do processo de tradução e adaptação cultural. A consistência interna foi alta (0,88). A correlação entre o questionário traduzido e o SF-36 variou de 0,35 a 0,57, considerada de moderada a boa para a maioria dos domínios de qualidade de vida. A avaliação das validades de construto e concorrente foi satisfatória e estatisticamente significativa. CONCLUSÕES: A versão para o português do FACT-BMT foi validada satisfatoriamente para a aplicação em pacientes brasileiros de ambos os sexos submetidos ao transplante de medula óssea.


Circulation ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 130 (suppl_2) ◽  
Author(s):  
France Dierick

AIM: PW1+ progenitors were identified in various adult tissues and can differentiate in smooth muscle cells (SMC) in vitro. Our hypothesis is that PW1+ progenitors are recruited to participate in the vascular remodeling during pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). METHODS: PW1IRESnLacZ+/- mice express the β-galactosidase as a reporter gene for PW1 expression allowing to follow the lineage of PW1+ cells during a few days. These mice were exposed to chronic hypoxia (CH) to induce PAH, lung vessels neomuscularisation and SMC proliferation. PW1+ and β-Gal+ cells were studied by FACS and by immunofluorescence. RESULTS: PW1+ cells are localized in the lung parenchyma and in the perivascular zone in rodent and human lung. Two PW1+ populations were identified by flow cytometry in the mouse lung 1/ a Sca-1high/CD34high/PDGFR-α+ population which differentiates into calponin+ or α-SMA+ SMC and into vWF+ endothelial cell and 2/ a CD34-/CD146+ population expressing pericyte markers. After 2-4 days of CH, the number of lung PW1+ cells is increased (x3.5, p<0.01) and, in small pulmonary vessels media, the proportion of β-Gal+ SMC derived from PW1+ cells is increased (64±6% vs 35±3%, p<0.05) suggesting a recruitment and differentiation of PW1+ cells into lung vascular SMC. Moreover WT mice irradiated and engrafted with GFP+/β-Gal+ bone marrow cells do not show any increase in GFP+ SMC in lung vessels and do not show any β-Gal+ cells in the lung indicating that the lung PW1+ progenitors are not derived from bone marrow . Moreover, in the human PAH lung, PW1+ cells were observed in remodeled vascular structures: in the media of remodeled vessel and in plexiform lesions. CONCLUSION: These results suggest that lung resident PW1+ progenitors are recruited to participate in the vascular remodeling of small pulmonary vessels in experimental and human PAH. These progenitors show characteristics of pericytes and of vascular progenitors.


Respirology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (11) ◽  
pp. 1095-1103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca L. Harper ◽  
Suzanne Maiolo ◽  
Rebekah J. Ward ◽  
Jemma Seyfang ◽  
Michaelia P. Cockshell ◽  
...  

Blood ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 117 (13) ◽  
pp. 3485-3493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samar Farha ◽  
Kewal Asosingh ◽  
Weiling Xu ◽  
Jacqueline Sharp ◽  
Deepa George ◽  
...  

AbstractPulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a proliferative vasculopathy characterized by high circulating CD34+CD133+ proangiogenic progenitors, and endothelial cells that have pathologic expression of hypoxia-inducible factor 1 α (HIF-1α). Here, CD34+CD133+ progenitor cell numbers are shown to be higher in PAH bone marrow, blood, and pulmonary arteries than in healthy controls. The HIF-inducible myeloid-activating factors erythropoietin, stem cell factor (SCF), and hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) are also present at higher than normal levels in PAH blood, and related to disease severity. Primary endothelial cells harvested from human PAH lungs produce greater HGF and progenitor recruitment factor stromal-derived factor 1 α (SDF-1α) than control lung endothelial cells, and thus may contribute to bone marrow activation. Even though PAH patients had normal numbers of circulating blood elements, hematopoietic alterations in myeloid and erythroid lineages and reticulin fibrosis identified a subclinical myeloproliferative process. Unexpectedly, evaluation of bone marrow progenitors and reticulin in nonaffected family members of patients with familial PAH revealed similar myeloid abnormalities. Altogether, the results show that PAH is linked to myeloid abnormalities, some of which may be related to increased production of HIF-inducible factors by diseased pulmonary vasculature, but findings in nonaffected family suggest myeloid abnormalities may be intrinsic to the disease process.


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