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Poster Session

POSTER-WALKS

We would like to invite you to the EHA Poster sessions

Poster walks have been was introduced in order to gain a maximum benefit from the scientific work presented and to create a lively interaction and discussion between poster authors, moderators and interested delegates. Poster-walks will be organized during poster sessions on Friday, June 5 (17:45 – 19:00) and Saturday, June 6 (18:00 – 19:15). The poster area is located in Hall 12 and Hall 14.1. Poster-walk moderators can be recognized by their cap. We kindly ask you to be in time at the first poster in the poster session of your interest. Drinks and snacks will be served.

POSTER SESSION I

Poster presentation during Poster-walks from 17:45 – 19:00. Poster Area (Hall 12 and Hall 14.1)

 

  • DEVELOPMENTAL HEMATOPOIESIS, STEM CELLS AND MICROENVIRONMENT

    Poster-walk Moderator: T Lapidot (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)

  • TRANSCRIPTIONAL CONTROL, EPIGENETICS, CELL CYCLE REGULATION AND APOPTOSIS

    Poster-walk Moderator: B Simonsson (University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden)

  • GENOMICS AND PROTEOMICS & CYTOGENETICS AND MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS

    Poster-walk Moderator: B Young (Institute of Cancer, London, United Kingdom)

  • CYTOGENETICS AND MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS

    Poster-walk Moderator: C Mecucci (Ospedale della misericordia, Perugia, Italy)

  • CELLULAR IMMUNOTHERAPY AND VACCINATION

    Poster-walk Moderator: F Falkenburg (University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands)

  • ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA - CLINICAL

    Poster-walk Moderator: R Pieters (Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

  • HODGKIN LYMPHOMA

    Poster-walk Moderator: A Engert (Klinikum der Universität, Keulen, Germany)

  • BLEEDING DISORDERS (CONGENITAL AND ACQUIRED)

    Poster-walk Moderator: J Ingerslev (University Hospital Skejby, Aarhus, Denmark)

  • QUALITY OF LIFE, PALLIATIVE CARE AND ETHICS

    Poster-walk Moderator: A Novik (Pirogov National Medical Surgical Center, Moscow, Russia)

  • STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION – GVHD, GRAFT REJECTION, INFECTION

    Poster-walk Moderator: P Jakobs (Constantiaberg Medi-Clinic, Plumstead, South-Africa)

  • STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION – AUTOLOGOUS, DLI, MISCELLANEOUS

    Poster-walk Moderator: J Passweg (Hopitaux Universitaires, Geneve, Switzerland)

  • NOVEL THERAPEUTICS, TARGETED THERAPIES AND GENE THERAPY
    - PRECLINICAL & CLINICAL

    Poster-walk Moderator: A Hagenbeek (Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

  • RED BLOOD CELLS AND IRON I

    Poster-walk Moderator: P Beris (Hôpital Cantonal Universitaire, Geneva, Switzerland)

  • RED BLOOD CELLS AND IRON II

    Poster-walk Moderator: J Porter (University College, London, United Kingdom)

  • PLATELETS & THROMBOCYTOPENIA I

    Poster-walk Moderator: C Gachet (Inserm-Université, Strasbourg, France)

  • MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES I

    Poster-walk Moderator: Hellström-Lindberg (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden)

  • ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA - BIOLOGY I

    Poster-walk Moderator: C Chomienne (Hospital Saint Louis, Paris, France)

  • ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA - BIOLOGY II

    Poster-walk Moderator: N Bolli (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA)

  • ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA – CLINICAL I

    Poster-walk Moderator: F Lo Coco (University Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy)

  • CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA - BIOLOGY

    Poster-walk Moderator: M Deininger (Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA)

  • CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA AND RELATED DISORDERS - BIOLOGY I

    Poster-walk Moderator: D Oscier (Royal Bournemouth, Bournemouth, United Kingdom)

  • CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA AND RELATED DISORDERS - CLINICAL I

    Poster-walk Moderator: E Montserrat (Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain)

  • MYELOMA AND OTHER MONOCLONAL GAMMOPATHIES - BIOLOGY I

    Poster-walk Moderator: O Sezer (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin,
    Germany)

  • MYELOMA AND OTHER MONOCLONAL GAMMOPATHIES - CLINICAL I

    Poster-walk Moderator: A Waage (St. Olav University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway)

  • NON-HODGKIN LYMPHOMA - CLINICAL I

    Poster-walk Moderator: M Trneny (Charles University General Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic)

  • NON-HODGKIN LYMPHOMA - CLINICAL II

    Poster-walk Moderator: A Ferreri (San Raffaele H Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy)

  • THROMBOSIS AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY I

    Poster-walk Moderator: H Büller (Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

  • INFECTIOUS DISEASES, SUPPORTIVE CARE I

    Poster-walk Moderator: G Maschmeyer: (Klinikum Ernst von Bergmann, Potsdam, Germany)

POSTER SESSION I

17:45 – 19:00

DEVELOPMENTAL HEMATOPOIESIS, STEM CELLS AND MICROENVIRONMENT

0001

RESCUE OF HEMATOPOIETIC FAILURE INDUCED BY THE GATA 1(LOW) MUTATION IS MEDIATED BY A PERMISSIVE MICROENVIRONMENT IN THE SPLEEN THAT INDUCES DIFFERENTIATION OF GATA -1(LOW) PROGENITORS THROUGH THE ALTERNATIVE ENHANCER HS2
A.R. Migliaccio, F. Martelli, M. Verrucci, M.E. Fabucci, M. Sanchez, G. Migliaccio, A.M. Vannucchi, M. Zingariello, A. Di Baldassarre, B. Ghinassi, R.A. Rana, Y. Van Hensbergen, W. Fibbe (Mount Sinai School of Medicine and myeloproliferative Disease Reser. Consortium, New York, USA)

0002

0002 COMPARISON OF HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL (HSC) ENGRAFTMENT ON SYNGENEIC AND ALLOGENEIC STROMAL TERRITORIES IN THE ABSENCE OF IMMUNE REACTION
I. Resnick, T. Prigozhina, G. Elkin, B. Avni, M. Shapira, R. Or, P. Stepensky,
O. Gurevich (Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel)

0003

THE EFFECT OF THE TEL-TRKC ONCOGENE ON THE HAEMATOENDOTHELIAL
DIFFERENTIATION FROM HUMAN EMBRYONICSTEM CELLS

R. Malladi, J. Sloane-Stanley, R. Gupta, N. Rodrigues, W. Wood, T. Enver (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford, United Kingdom)

0004

IFNA ACTIVATES DORMANT HSCS IN VIVO
M.A.G. Essers, S. Wurzer, A. Trumpp (DKFZ, HI-STEM, Heidelberg, Germany)

0006 TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITION FAILS TO ERADICATE LEUKEMIC STEM/PROGENITOR CELLS IN FLT3-ITD+ ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA: ROLE OF THE STEM CELL NICHE
S. Götze, A. Parmar, S. Rushton, S.M. Marz, K. Lind, S. Kayser, K. Döhner, C. Peschel, R. Oostendorp (Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany)
0007 ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR (AHR) ACTIVATION PERTURBS MYELOID SUBLINEAGE DIFFERENTIATION BY INHIBITING PU.1 UPREGULATION
S. Richter, P. Platzer, M. Woisetschlager, D. Waltenberger, H. Strobl (Institut of Immunology, Vienna, Austria)
0009 THE ROLE OF CYCLIN A1 AND APOPTOSIS IN MURINE HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS
E. Diffner, J. Liao Persson (Experimental Cancer Research, Malmö, Sweden)
14th CONGRESS
0010 INTEGRIN ALPHA9 CONTRIBUTES TO ADHESION AND DIFFERENTIATION OF HUMAN HEMATOPOIETIC STEM/- PROGENITOR CELLS IN THE HUMAN BONE MARROW
G. Klein, C. Steinl, C.A. Müller, W.K. Aicher, T.D. Schreiber (University Medical Clinic Tübingen, Tuebingen, Germany)
0011 DIFFERENTIAL LOCALIZATION OF P-SELECTIN AND VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR DURING MEGAKARYOCYTE MATURATION
M.K. Zetterberg, R.A. Rana, M. Zingariello, M.E. Fabucci, D. Bosco, A.R. Migliaccio, F. Martelli (Istitituto di sanità superiore, Rome, Italy)
0012 ASSESSMENT OF INDUCED BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION AND HEMATOPOIETIC GROWTH FACTORS ON HEPATIC REGENERATION AFTER PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY IN ALBINO RATS
E.D.S. Alaa Abd El Hamid (Faculty of Medicine, Sue Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt)
0013 ISOLATION, DIFFERENTIATION AND NEUROPROTECTIVE PROPERTIES OF NEURONAL PROGENITORS FROM HUMAN UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD
H. Arien-Zakay, P. Lazarovici, H. Galski, A. Nagler (Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel)


TRANSCRIPTIONAL CONTROL, EPIGENETICS, CELL CYCLE REGULATION AND APOPTOSIS

0014

MAINTENANCE OF NORMAL HEMATOPOIETIC PROGENITOR CELLS BY THE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR LAQ824 IS ASSOCIATED WITH INDUCTION OF NOTCH TARGET GENES
G. Bug, A. Romenski, O.G. Ottmann, J.W. Scott, H. Serve, K. Schwarz (Goethe University, Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany)

0015

THE TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE DISABLED-2 IS EPIGENETICALLY DOWNREGULATED IN MULTIPLE MYELOMA
E. Jost, C. Schubert, S. Wilop, Y. Akiyama, R. Osieka, O. Galm (UK Aachen, Aachen, Germany)

0016

A DNASE I HYPERSENSITIVE SITE IN THE DISTAL PROMOTER REGION OF THE BCL-6 LOCUS BINDS ZEB1 AND IS RESPONSIBLE FOR TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSION
V. Papadopoulou, A.C.G. Porter, A. Postigo, S.D. Wagner (Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom)

0017

GENOME-WIDE IDENTIFICATION OF BINDING SITES OF EVI1 IN HUMAN MYELOID CELL LINES
M. Maicas, I. Vazquez, M.A. García-Sánchez, N. Marcotegui, L. García-Ortí, O. Marín, N. Ortega, E. Guruceaga, A. Conchillo, M. Gómez-Benito, M.D. Odero (CIMA, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain)

0018 MICRORNA EXPRESSION PROFILES IN UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD CELL LINEAGES
M. Merkerova, A. Vasikova, M. Belickova, H. Bruchova (Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague, Czech Republic)
0019 RESTORATION OF RETINOIC ACID-TARGET GENE TRANSCRIPTION BY EPIGENETIC THERAPY IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA CELL LINES
M. Victor, A. Cras, P.Y. Boelle, B. Pollitis, H. Dombret, E. Raffoux, C. Chomienne (Inserm UMR S 940, Paris, France)
0020 SMALL MOLECULE XIAP INHIBITORS SENSITIZE CHILDHOOD ACUTE LEUKEMIA CELLS FOR DEATH RECEPTOR- OR CHEMOTHERAPY- INDUCED APOPTOSIS IN VITRO AND EXERT ANTILEUKEMIC ACTIVITY IN A NOD/SCID MOUSE MODEL IN VIVO
S. Fulda, S. Löder, M. Fakler, K. Schneider, I. Jeremias, K.M. Debatin, S. Fulda (Ulm University, Ulm, Germany)
0021 CASPASE INHIBITION BLOCKS APOPTOSIS CAUSED BY MLL-AF4 DEPLETION IN T(4;11)-POSITIVE ALL CELL LINES, BUT CANNOT ABROGATE SUBSEQUENT NECROPTOSIS-LIKE CELL DEATH
P. G. C. Garrido Castro, A. Gessner, J. Greil, O. Heidenreich (Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom)
0022 INDUCTION OF APOPTOSIS BY SHORT-TERM, HIGH-DOSE KINASE-INHIBITOR EXPOSURE IS A COMMON MECHANISM IN CELLS TRANSFORMED BY ONCOGENIC KINASES
M.-C. Blum, F. Heidel, E. Ziesché, T. Kindler, T. Fischer, D.B. Lipka (Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Mainz, Germany)
0023 CHANGES OF NUCLEOLIN EXPRESSION IN PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELLS IN CHILDREN WITH ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA
E. Maloney, T. Ociepa, E. Kamienska, T. Urasinski, E. Urasinska (Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland)
0024 THE EFFECT OF P16 ON GLUCOCORTICOID RESPONSES IN A B-CELL LYMPHOBLAST CELL LINE
S.Y. Kim, E.S. Park, D.C. Jeong (Chungnam National University, Daejeon,
South-Korea)
0025 PERIPHERAL BLOOD LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS, TREG CELLS AND FOXP3 EXPRESSION IN ß-THALASSEMIA MAJOR AND ß-THALASSEMIA TRAIT PATIENTS
E. Erdem, G. Bozdogan, G. Yanikkkaya Demirel, Y. Yildirmak (Sisli Etfal Research and Training Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey)

 

GENOMICS AND PROTEOMICS & CYTOGENETICS AND MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS

0026

PERSONALISED MEDICINE - THE USE OF PROTEOMICS BIOMARKERS TO PREDICT RESPONSE TO THALIDOMIDE IN MULTIPLE MYELOMA
R. Rajpal, P. Dowling, J. Meiller, W.G. Murphy, R. O’Connor, K.C. Anderson, P. Murphy, M. Clynes, P. O’Gorman (National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology (NICB), Dublin, Ireland)

0027

DIFFERENT RESPONSES TO ADRIAMYCIN AND RADIATION ON RAJI CELLS: A COMPARATIVE MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEOMIC STUDY
Y.J.J. Jiang, X.W. Wang (Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, China)

0028

COMPARATIVE PROTEOMIC PROFILING OF SUBTYPE M1 AND M2 OF ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA BY TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTROPHORESIS (2DE) AND MASS SPECTROMETRY
M. Luczak, M. Kazmierczak, L. Handschuh, K. Lewandowski, M. Komarnicki, M. Figlerowicz (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland)

0030

SET-NUP214 EXPRESSION REQUIRES ALTERNATIVE SPLICING
H. Quentmeier, B. Schneider, S. Röhrs, J. Romani, M. Zaborski, R.A.F. MacLeod, H.G. Drexler (DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany)

0031 THE UNUSUAL MLL REARRANGEMENT IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA
I. Sarova, J. Brezinova, L. Lizcova, Z. Zemanova, O. Fuchs, A. Kostecka, D. Provaznikova, J. Filkukova, J. Maaloufova, K. Michalova (Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague, Czech Republic)
0032 COMPLEX CHROMOSOMAL ABERRATIONS IN BONE MARROW CELLS OF 86 PATIENTS WITH MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES (MDS)
Z. Zemanova, K. Michalova, J. Brezinova, L. Lizcova, S. Izakova, D. Bystricka, I. Sarova, M. Siskova, R. Neuwirtova, O. Cerna, J. Cermak (General Teaching Hospital and First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
0033 INTER-LABORATORY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF A NEW RQ-PCR ASSAY AIMED AT MEASURING RESPONSE TO TREATMENT IN CHRONIC PHASE CML PATIENTS
F. Hermitte, J.R. Cook, J. Howell, K. Lyon, S. Turcan, V. Frayssinet, N. Maroc, R.R. Tubbs, A. Ferreira-Gonzalez (Ipsogen, Marseille, France)
0034 HIGH RESOLUTION MELTING ANALYSIS FOR THE RAPID DETECTION OF C-KIT MUTATIONS IN CORE BINDING FACTOR-ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA
O. Fuster, E. Barragan, P. Bolufer, J. Cervera, M.J. Larrayoz, A. Jimenez, J. Martínez, A. Valencia, F. Moscardó, M.A. Sanz (Hospital La Fe, Valencia, Spain)
0035 ANALYSIS OF ACTIVATION INDUCED CYTIDINE DEAMINASE (AID) MRNA AS PREDICTOR OF DISEASE PROGRESSION AND RESPONSE TO THERAPY IN B-CELL CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA
H. ElAggan (Medical Research institute, Alexandria, Egypt)
0036 CONSTITUTIONAL RUNX1 DELETION IN NON-SYNDROMIC THROMBOCYTOPENIA; 21Q22 ITSN1 AS A CANDICATE GENE IN MENTAL RETARDATION
A. Buijs (University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands)
0037 DETECTION OF NUMERICAL CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS IN RARE ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA (AML) CELLS
H. Minderman, J.C. Arcadi, A. Wierzbicki, E.S. Wang, S.N.J. Sait, A.W. Block, L. Liang, T. George, P.K. Wallace (Roswell Park Cancer Institute, USA)
0038 A RAPID, SENSITIVE AND SPECIFIC REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION ASSAY FOR QUANTIFICATION OF THE JAK2V617F ALLELE BURDEN
B. Denys, H. El Housni, F. Nollet, B. Verhasselt, J. Philippé (Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium)
0039 MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES: USEFULNESS OF GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING FOR PROGNOSIS AND CELL MORPHOLOGY CLASSIFICATION
M. Cabezón, L. Zamora, T. Berenguer, S. Marcé, N. Lloveras, B. Xicoy, D. Dominguez, J. Ribera, I. Portal, R. Guardia, D. Vela, J. Ayats, J. Buch, J.R. Grifols, M. Xandri, V. Moreno, J.M. Ribera, F. Millá, E. Feliu (Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol - ICO, Badalona, Spain)
0040 MOLECULAR CHARACTERISATION OF TRANSLOCATION (7;8) IN A CASE OF T-CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LYMPHOMA
J. Augustyniak, G.K. Przybylski, P. Grabarczyk, K. Dittmann, R. Siebert, S. Gesk, K. A_mus, G. Dölken, C.A. Schmidt (University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany)
0041 A BRANCHED DNA-BASED TECHNIQUE FOR DETECTION OF BCR-ABL GENE PRODUCTS
M. Yakicier, T. Acun, S. Dizlek, A. Timuragaoglu (Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey)
0042 GENOMIC IMBALANCES IN HCV-RELATED CRYOGLOBULINEMIAS
C. Matteucci, G. Barba, D. Sansonno, F.A. Tucci, S. Romoli, D. Beacci, M.F. Martelli, F. Dammacco, C. Mecucci (University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy)
0043 FRAGMENT LENGTH ANALYSIS SCREENING FOR CEBPA MUTATIONS DETECTION IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA
O. Fuster, E. Barragan, P. Bolufer, J. Cervera, E. Such, P. Montesinos, M.A. Sanz (Hospital La Fe, Valencia, Spain)
0044 MUTATIONS IN THE IRF ASSOCIATION DOMAIN OF THE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GENE ICSBP MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH LEUKEMOGENESIS IN SHWACHMAN-DIAMOND SYNDROM
N. Otto, C. Zeidler, K. Welte, B. Schlegelberger, D. Steinemann (MHH, Hannover, Germany)
0045 A NEW RELIABLE FISH METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING MULTIPLE SPECIFIC CYTOGENETIC ABNORMALITIES IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA
A. Valencia, J. Cervera, E. Such, E. Gamero, E. Barragan, O. Fuster, P. Bolufer, F. Moscardo, M.A. Sanz (Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia, Spain)

 

CYTOGENETICS AND MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS

0046

ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA WITH BIALLELIC CEBPA GENE MUTATIONS AND NORMAL KARYOTYPE REPRESENTS A DISTINCT GENETIC ENTITY ASSOCIATED WITH A FAVORABLE CLINICAL OUTCOME
A. Dufour, A Dufour, F. Schneider, K.H. Metzeler, E. Zellmeier, T. Benthaus, M.-C. Sauerland, T. Büchner, J. Braess, W. Hiddemann, S. Bohlander, K. Spiekermann (Klinikum Grosshadern LMU, Munich, Germany)

0047

MENINGIOMA GENE (MN1) EXPRESSION IS A SENSITIVE MARKER FOR MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE DETECTION IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKAEMIA
D. Cilloni, F. Arruga, S. Carturan, F. Daraio, G. Tramuta, A. Coco, M. Fava, E. Gottardi, F. Messa, E. Bergatto, F. Farinazzo, G. Stefanuto, E. Messa, F. Lo Coco, G. Saglio (University of Turin, Turin, Italy)

0048

MEASUREMENT OF MICRORNA EXPRESSION LEVELS BY QUANTITATIVE REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION IS A USEFUL TOOL TO PREDICT OUTCOME IN PATIENTS WITH B CELL CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKAEMIA
A.H. Schuh, E. Ballabio, S. Gooding, O. Dyar, M. Jones, C. Lawrie (University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom)

0049

STANDARDIZATION OF MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE FOR MINOR-BCR-ABL TRANSCRIPTS IN PH+ALL: A EUROPEAN APPROACH OF THE EWALL AND ESG-MRD-ALL CONSORTIA
H. Pfeifer, G. Cazzaniga, O. Spinelli, J. Cayuela, J. Mayer, H. Cavé, P. Vandenberghe, M.G. Diaz, S. Sacha, S. Hayette, J. Harbott, T. Lion, L. Foroni, V. van der Velden, J. Zuna, M. Hermansson, M.C. Mueller, T. Lange, M. Majewski, I. Bendit, F. Pane, I. Iacobucci, N. Goekbuget, J.J.M. Van Dongen, O.G. Ottmann (Goethe - University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany)

0050 JAK2 V617 ALLELE BURDEN AND THROMBOSIS IN PATIENTS WITH POLYCYTHEMIA VERA AND ESSENTIAL THROMBOCYTHEMIA
E. Kalagiakou, I. Evmorfiadis, M. Hatzouli, E. Manioudaki, M. Kotsopoulou, S. Malegkou, K. Vallianatou, I.-D. Triantafyllopoulou, E. Samaridis, L. Dadiotis, Ch. Mitsouli, C. Belessi, N. Laoutaris (Nikea General Hospital, Athens, Greece
0051 MONOCLONALITY TESTING USING PYROSEQUENCING
D.R. Robert, P. Makrythanasis, S. Mach-Pasqual, P. Beris, S. Antonarakis, S. Deutsch, T. Matthes (University Hospital Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland)
0052 COOPERATING MUTATIONS OF RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASES/ JAK2/RAS SIGNALING PATHWAYS IN DE NOVO AML WITH MLL TRANSLOCATIONS AT DIAGNOSIS AND RELAPSE
L.-Y. Shih, D.-C. Liang, C.-F. Huang, J.-F. Fu, T.-L. Lin, M.-C. Kuo, C.-L. Lai, T.-H. Lin (Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan)
0053 PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF TELOMERE LENGTH, MOLECULAR CYTOGENETIC FINDINGS AND IMMUNOPHENOTYPIC FEATURES IN PATIENTS WITH B-CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA
J. Brezinova, S. Vcelikova, A. Berkova, Z. Zemanova, I. Izakova, I. Sarova, H. Cechova, J. Tajtlova, L. Grosova, L. Lizcova, E. Malinova, M. Zemanova, E. Cmunt, J. Karban, J. Schwarz, K. Michalova (Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague, Czech Republic)
0054 B-CELL LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS WITH T(1;14)(Q13;Q32) OR T(4;18)(Q32;Q21) SHOW VARIATIONS IN THE PATTERN OF ADDITIONAL CYTOGENETIC ABERRATIONS, GENE EXPRESSION PROFILE AND ANTIGEN EXPRESSION
F. Dicker, L. Reindl, S. Schnittger, T. Haferlach, W. Kern, C. Haferlach (MLL Munich Leukemia Laboratory, Munich, Germany)
0055 ASSOCIATION OF INTERPHASE FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION (IP-FISH) RESPONSE CRITERIA WITH CONVENTIONAL METAPHASE CYTOGENETICS IN CML PATIENTS ON THERAPY
T. Schenk, M.C. Müller, A. Fabarius, P. Erben, H. Daikeler, T. Ernst, A. Hochhaus, C. Haferlach (Universitaetsmedizin Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany)
0056 FREQUENT MONITORING OF WILMS' TUMOR GENE (WT1) EXPRESSION LEVELS IN PERIPHERAL BLOOD FOR EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF ACUTE LEUKEMIA RELAPSE AFTER ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
H. Tamaki, R. Kato, K. Ikegame, T. Fujioka, Y. Taniguchi, S. Yoshihara, K. Kaida, T. Inoue, H. Ogawa (Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya City, Japan)
0057 DNA METHYLATION PROFILES OF DIFFERENT LYMPHOID MALIGNANCIES
C. Stanganelli, C. Chena, I. Slavutsky (Academia Nacional de Medicina de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
0058 TET2 DELETION IS A COMMON DENOMINATOR IN HAEMATOLOGICAL PATHOLOGIES WITH 4Q24 REARRANGEMENTS
R. La Starza, E. Varasano, B. Crescenzi, G. Barba, N. Testoni, V. Gianfelici, V. Pierini, C. Baldazzi, V. Nofrini, A Pierini, T Zei, M.F. Martelli, C. Mecucci (University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy)
0059 COMBINATION OF FT-CGH AND LM-PCR ALLOWS MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF CHROMOSOMAL ALTERATIONS IN T-ALL CASES
K. Dittmann, G.K. Przybylski, P. Grabarczyk, S. Gesk, G. Dölken, R. Siebert, C.A. Schmidt (University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany)
0060 AN ACCURATE MLPA SCREENING METHOD FOR MLL-PTD DETECTS A LOW FREQUENCY OF MLL-PTD IN PEDIATRIC ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA
B.V. Balgobind, I.H.I.M. Hollink, D. Reinhardt, E. van Wering, S.S.N. de Graaf, A. Baruchel, J. Stary, H.B. Beverloo, G.E. de Greef, R. Pieters, C.M. Zwaan, M.M. van den Heuvel-Eibrink (Erasmus MC - Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
0061 FLOW CYTOMETRIC DETECTION OF NG2 ANTIGEN FOR EARLY IDENTIFICATION OF CHILDHOOD ACUTE LEUKEMIAS WITH MLL GENE REARRANGEMENTS
L. Sedek, J. Bulsa, A. Gaworczyk, I. Malinowska, M. Niedzwiecki, K. Derwich, J. Trelinska, K. Muszynska-Roslan, I. Olejnik, A. Mizia-Malarz, W. Balwierz, W. Badowska, I. Ruranska, B. Mazur, M. Matysiak, J.R. Kowalczyk, T. Szczepanski (Medical University of Silesia, Zabrze, Poland)
0062 DELETION OF 14Q INVOLVING IGH GENE IN PATIENTS WITH MULTIPLE MYELOMA
J. Balcarkova, T. Pika, H. Urbankova, M. Holzerova, V. Scudla, J. Bacovky, K. Indrak, M. Jarosova (University Hospital Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic)
0063 A NOVEL CHROMOSOMAL TRANSLOCATION T(1;14)(Q24.1;Q32) INVOLVING IGH IN CHILDHOOD B-CELL PRECURSOR ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKAEMIA (BCP-ALL)
E. Tassano, M. Acquila, E. Tavella, C. Rosanda, C. Micalizzi, C. Panarello, C. Morerio (Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy)
0064 K-RAS MUTATIONS IN CYTOGENETICALLY NORMAL AML PATIENTS
A. Morgan, J. Krauter, F. Onono, T. Bunke, F. Damm, G. Göhring, B. Schegelberger, A. Ganser, C.W.M. Reuter (Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany)

CELLULAR IMMUNOTHERAPY AND VACCINATION

0065

TARGETING LEWIS Y-EXPRESSING MULTIPLE MYELOMA AND ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA WITH GENE-MODIFIED T CELLS DEMONSTRATING MEMORY PHENOTYPE
S. Peinert, D. Hoenemann, D. Ritchie, P. Guru, S. Harrison, D. Westerman, M. Kershaw, M. Smyth, J. Trapani, P. Darcy, A. Shin, P. Gambell, A. Scott, P. Neeson, H.M. Prince (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia)

0066

PEPTIDE VACCINATION ELICITS LEUKEMIA-ASSOCIATED ANTIGENSPECIFIC CYTOTOXIC CD8+ T-CELL RESPONSES WITH POTENTIAL CLINICAL RELEVANCE IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA
K. Giannopoulos, A. Dmoszynska, M. Kowal, J. Rolinski, E. Gostick, D.A. Price, J. Greiner, M. Rojewski, S. Stilgenbauer, H. Doehner, M. Schmitt (Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland)

0067

EPIGENETIC MANIPULATION OF TUMOUR ANTIGEN EXPRESSION: A STRATEGY FOR SELECTIVELY UP-REGULATING THE GRAFTVERSUS LEUKAEMIA RESPONSE IN PATIENTS ALLOGRAFTED FOR HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCIES
A. Agathanggelou, A. McLarnon, O. Goodyear, D. Sansom, T. Stankovic, C. Craddock, P. Moss (University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom)

0068

HIGH-DOSE RHAMM-R3 PEPTIDE VACCINATION FOR PATIENTS WITH ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA (AML), MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME (MDS) AND MULTIPLE MYELOMA (MM)
J. Greiner, A. Schmitt, K. Giannopoulos, M. Rojewski, M. Götz, G. Ritter, S. Gnjatic, P. Guillaume, M. Ringhoffer, M. Bommer, R.F. Schlenk, D. Bunjes, H. Döhner, M. Schmitt (University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany)

0069 CLINICAL RESPONSES IN ALLOGRAFTED ACUTE LEUKEMIA PATIENTS WITH RESISTANT DISEASE USING A COMBINED CHEMO-IMMUNOTHERAPEUTIC TREATMENT STRATEGY
G.F. Torelli, W. Barberi, R. Maggio, M.S. De Propris, N. Peragine, A.P. Iori, F. Natalino, A. Guarini, R. Foà (Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy)
0070 RNA-MODIFIED DENDRITIC CELLS AS THERAPEUTIC VACCINES
N. Berneman, A. Van Driessche, A. Van de Velde, A. Schroyens, P. Gadisseur, I. Vrelust, G. Nijs, B. Stein, K. Vermeulen, K. Pieters, N. Cools, R. Van Gulck, G. Vanham, F. Van Tendeloo (University of Antwerp, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, Edegem, Belgium)
0071 IN VITRO GENERATION OF BOTH CONVENTIONAL AND UNCONVENTIONAL MATURE TCRAB CELLS FROM HUMAN HEMATOPOIETIC STEM AND PROGENITOR CELLS
S. Van Coppernolle, G. Verstichel, I. Velghe, J. Plum, B. Vandekerckhove, C.C. Kerre (UZ Gent, Ghent, Belgium)
0072 IMMUNOSTIMULATORY LEUKEMIC DENDRITIC CELLS CAN EFFICIENTLY EXPAND LEUKAEMIA-REACTIVE T CELLS FROM HSCT DONORS
M. Casucci, S.K. Perna, A. Bondanza, Z. Magnani, M. Bernardi, A. Crotta, C. Tresoldi, K. Fleischhauer, F. Caligaris-Cappio, F. Ciceri, C. Bordignon, A. Cignetti, C. Bonini (San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy)
0073 IN VITRO ACTIVATION OF MYELOMA-SPECIFIC CYTOTOXIC T CELLS BY MUC1 PULSED DENDRITIC CELLS
F. Kryukov, L. Zahradová, D. Ocadlíková, L. Kovárová, E. Matejková, R. Hájek, J. Michálek (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
0074 CYTOKINE INDUCED KILLER CELLS : IN VITRO DIFFERENTIATED T CELLS WITH ANTI-TUMORAL ACTIVITY
A. Pievani, G. Borleri, M. Franceschetti, L. Vago, K. Fleischhauer, J. Golay, M. Introna (Laboratory of Cellular Therapy “G.Lanzani”, Bergamo, Italy)

 

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA - CLINICAL

0075

A NOVEL DASATINIB-SENSITIVE RCSD1-ABL1 FUSION TRANSCRIPT IN CHEMOTHERAPY-REFRACTORY ADULT PRE-B LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA WITH T(;9)(Q24;Q34)
S. Mustjoki (Hematology Research Unit Helsinki, Biomedicum, Helsinki, Finland)

0076

LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP OF HIV-INFECTED ADULT PATIENTS WITH BURKITT'S LYMPHOMA OR LEUKEMIA TREATED WITH INTENSIVE SPECIFIC CHEMOTHERAPY AND RITUXIMAB
A. Oriol, J.M. Ribera, F. Vall-llobera, J. Esteve, C. Grande, E. Giménez-Mesa, S. Brunet, J. Bergua, L. Escoda, D. Hoelzer (ICO-Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, Badalona, Spain)

0077

THE LONG-TERM OUTCOME OF ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH PHILADELPHIA-POSITIVE ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA (PH+ALL) IN THE IMATINIB ERA
A. Delannoy, E. Delabesse, V. Lheritier, S. Castaigne, F. Rigal-Huguet, E. Raffoux, F. Garban, O. Legrand, S. Bologna, V. Dubruille, P. Turlure, O. Reman, M. Delain, F. Isnard, D. Coso, P. Raby, A. Buzyn, S. Cailleres, S. Darre, C. Fohrer, A. Sonet, C. Bilhou-Nabera, M.-C. Bene, H. Dombret, X. Thomas (Hôpital de Jolimont, Haine-Saint-Paul, Belgium)

0078

THE HUMORAL IMMUNE RESPONSE DURING THE L-ASPARAGINASE THERAPY - THREE CLASSES OF ANTIBODIES
M. Zalewska-Szewczyk, L. Wyka, D. Adrianowska, A. Zubowska, M. Mlynarski (Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland)

0079 LIPOSOMAL CYTARABINE FOR THE PROPHYLAXIS OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM RELAPSE IN ADULT ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA. INTERIM ANALYSIS OF THE PALG 5-2007 ALL STUDY
J. Piszcz, B. Piatkowska-Jakubas, S. Giebel, A. Grzywacz, M. Adamczyk- Cioch, L. Bolkun, M. Krawczyk-Kulis, A. Holowiecka, J. Holowiecki (Bialystok Medical Academy, Bialystok, Poland)
0080 QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE CONCORDANCE IN MRD DATA, ASSESSED BY FLOW CYTOMETRY AND RT-PCR OF FUSION GENE TRANSCRIPTS IN INFANTS WITH MLL-REARRANGED ALL
A. Popov, G. Tsaur, A. Ivanova, Y. Yakovleva, T. Verzhbitskaya, T. Riger, E. Shorikov, L. Saveliev, L. Fechina (Ural State Medical Academy, Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation)
0081 OUTCOME FOR ADOLESCENT AND YOUNG ADULTS UP TO AGE 35 YEARS (AYA) WITH ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA (ALL) TREATED ON THE PEDIATRIC PROTOCOLS OF MOSCOW-BERLIN 91 AND 2002
S.V. Semochkin, S.S. Kulikova, L.A. Antipova, V.V. Lunin, A.G. Rumiantsev (Federal Scientific Clinical Center for Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immuno, Moscow, Russian Federation)
0082 HUMORAL IMMUNITY TO DIPHTHERIA, TETANUS, MEASLES, AND HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B IN CHILDREN WITH ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA AND RE-VACCINATION RESPONSES
E. Zengin, N. Sarper (Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey)
0083 PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF ULTRASOUND-DETECTED BOWEL WALL THICKENING IN NEUTROPENIC ENTEROCOLITIS
T. Hassan, M. Atfy, M. El Tohamy (Zagazig University, Zagagzig, Egypt)

HODGKIN LYMPHOMA

0084

EARLY AND LATE RESPONSE ASSESSMENT WITH FDG-PET AFTER BEACOPP-BASED CHEMOTHERAPY IN ADVANCEDSTAGE HODGKIN LYMPHOMA PATIENTS HAS A HIGH NEGATIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE
J. Markova, C. Kobe, M. Skopalova, L. Zikavska, Z. Vernerova, K. Klaskova, K. Dedeckova, H.T. Eich, M. Dietlein, M. Fuchs, A. Engert, T. Kozak (University Hospital Kralovske Vinohrady, Prague 10 - Vinohrady, Czech Republic)

0085

VEBEP REGIMEN AND HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY (HAART) IN PATIENTS (PTS) WITH HD AND HIV INFECTION (HD-HIV): FINAL RESULTS OF THE ITALIAN COOPERATIVE GROUP ON AIDS AND TUMORS (GICAT) STUDY
M. Spina, A. Antinori, V. Neri, G. Rossi, A. Re, B. Allione, A. Chimienti, R. Talamini, U. Tirelli (National Cancer Institute, Aviano, Italy)

0086

18FDG-PET-NEGATIVE COMPLETE REMISSION PRIOR TO AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION PREDICTS FOR SUPERIOR EVENT FREE SURVIVAL OF PATIENTS WITH RELAPSED OR REFRACTORY HODGKIN LYMPHOMA
S. Peinert, R. Hoyt, A. Grigg, H.M. Prince, J.F. Seymour, L. Rigacci, A. Roberts, J. Szer, D. Ritchie (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia)

0087

EARLY FDG-PET SCAN CONFIRMS ITS PROGNOSTIC IMPACT ALSO IN LOCALIZED STAGE, ABVD TREATED HODGKIN LYMPHOMA PATIENTS
L. Rigacci, B. Puccini, A. Gallamini, F. Merli, C. Stelitano, M. Balzarotti, P. Pregno, C. Fraulini, F. Salvi, R. Emili, S. Tavera, I. Capodanno, F. Morabito, A. Santoro, U. Vitolo, T. Chisesi, A. Levis, A.M. Liberati, A. Bosi (Azienda Ospedaliera Careggi, Florence, Italy)

0088 PHASE II STUDY OF ORAL PANOBINOSTAT IN PATIENTS WITH RELAPSED/REFRACTORY HODGKIN LYMPHOMA (HL) AFTER HIGH-DOSE CHEMOTHERAPY WITH AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANT (ASCT)
A. Younes, A. Sureda, D. Ben-Yehuda, T.C. Ong, D. Tan, A. Engert, C. Le Corre, J. Gallagher, S. Hirawat, M. Prince (M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA)
0089 QUALITY OF LIFE AND FERTILITY IN HODGKIN DISEASE (HD) PATIENTS TREATED WITH ESCALATED BEACOPP
W. Jurczak, D. Krochmalczyk, W. Pabian, P. Chrapczynski, A. Cwierz, A. Giza, M. Sobocinski, D. Zimowska-Curylo, A.B. Skotnicki (Dpt of Haematology, Kraków, Poland)
0090 TANDEM AUTOLOGOUS/REDUCED-INTENSITY ALLOGRAFT FOR RELAPSED/REFRACTORY HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA: EARLY ALLOTRANSPLANT AFTER INTENSIVE CYTOREDUCTION MAY MAXIMIZE GRAFT VS LYMPHOMA EFFECT?
E. Todisco, A.G. Congiu, L. Castagna, S.T. Nati, A. Santoro, A.M. Carella (Istituto Clinico HumanitasI, Rozzano Milan, Italy)
0091 QUALITY OF LIFE IN A 2-YEAR FOLLOW-UP: SIGNS OF PNP PREDICTING FATIGUE IN SURVIVORS TREATED IN THE HD10-12 TRIALS OF THE GERMAN HODGKIN STUDY GROUP (GHSG)
T. Halbsguth, H. Mueller, H.-H. Flechtner, C. Brillant, K. Behringer, Th. Schober, H. Nisters-Backes, A. Engert, P. Borchmann (University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany)
0092 EXPRESSION AND EPIGENETIC ANALYSIS OF KEY B-LINEAGE TRANSCRIPTIONAL PROGRAMMES IN HODGKIN / REED-STERNBERG CELLS
G.P. Collins, J.C. Paterson, L. Campbell, D.Y. Mason, T. Enver, T. Marafioti (John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom)
0093 PLASMA LEVELS OF CIRCULATING CELL-FREE DNA AND OF CYTOKINES AS POTENTIAL BIOMARKERS IN HODGKIN LYMPHOMA
S. Hohaus, G. Massini, M. Giachelia, B. Vannata, M. Criscuolo, M.C. Tisi, M. Martini, F. D'Alò, L.M. Larocca, M.T. Voso, G. Leone (Università Cattolica S. Cuore, Rome, Italy)
0094 THE INFLUENCE OF POLYMORPHISMS OF GLUTATHIONE S-TRANSFERASE MU (GSTM1), THETA (GSTT1) AND PI (GSTP1) GENES IN THE OUTCOME OF HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA
I. Lorand-Metze, G.J. Lourenço, M.T. Delamain, E.C.M. Miranda, R.E. Kameo, C.S.P. Lima (State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil)
0095 ANTHRACYCLINE CARDIOTOXITY OCCURS EARLY DURING THERAPY IN CHILDREN WITH HODGKIN'S DISEASE
A. Tantawy, O.A. Elmasry, D.N. Toaima, A.M. El Shahat (Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt)
0096 COMPLETE RESPONSE (CR) TO IGEV (IFOSFAMIDE, GEMCITABINE AND VINORELBINE) AND OUTCOME IN RELAPSED/ REFRACTORY HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA (HL) PATIENTS
A. Anastasia, R. Mazza, L. Giordano, M. Balzarotti, M. Magagnoli, L. Castagna, M. Spina, U. Tirelli, A. Santoro (Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano, Italy)
0097 THE PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF PET SCAN IN PATIENTS WITH RELAPSED/REFRACTORY HODGKIN LYMPHOMA (HL) TREATED WITH HIGH DOSE THERAPY AND AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION (HDT/ASCT)
M. Moschogiannis, T.P. Vassilakopoulos, G.A. Pangalis, P. Tsirkinidis, V. Pappi,
O. Tsopra, S. Sachanas, Z. Galanis, M. Angelopoulos, X. Yiakoumis, C. Kalpadakis, M.P. Siakantaris, K. Konstantopoulos, M.-C. Kyrtsonis, P. Panayiotidis, M.K. Angelopoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece)
0098 LOW INCIDENCE OF PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE (POF) IN FEMALE PATIENTS TREATED FOR HODGKIN LYMPHOMA DURING PREPUBERTAL OR POSTPUBERTAL PHASE
S. Falorio, G. La Barba, F. Fioritoni, G. Fioritoni, F. Angrilli (Civic Hospital, Pescara, Italy)
0099 COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TWO MOPP-DERIVED CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC PROTOCOLS FOR MANAGEMENT OF PEDIATRIC HODGKIN'S DISEASE: SINGLE CENTER 5-YEARS EXPERIENCE
Y. Al-Tonbary, M. Abul-Kheir, A. EL-Ashry, E.E. Salama, M. Sedky, E. Fouda (Mansoura University Children's Hospital, Mansoura, Egypt)
0100 INTERLEUKIN-12 GERMLINE POLYMORPHISM AND OUTCOME OF PATIENTS WITH HODGKIN LYMPHOMA: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF THE GROUPE D'ETUDE DES LYMPHOMES DE L'ADULTE
H. Ghesquieres, O. Casasnovas, M. Fournier, D. Cox, P. Brice, F. Morschhauser, A. Verney, C. Sebban, V. Ribrag, C. Haioun, P. Feugier, H. Tilly, C. Ferme, G. Salles (Centre Leon Berard, Lyon, France)

 

BLEEDING DISORDERS (CONGENITAL AND ACQUIRED)

0101

RECURRENT MUTATIONS IDENTIFIED ON LMAN1 AND COAGULATION FACTORS VII, X, XIII GENES
A. Cairo, M. Menegatti, M. Spreafico, I. Garagiola, F. Peyvandi (IRCCS Maggiore Hospital, Mangiagalli and Regina Elena Foundation, Milan, Italy)

0102

MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE HAEMARTHROSIS IN HAEMOPHILIA: A EUROPEAN SURVEY
R.J.R. Hermans, P. De Moerloose, K. Fischer, K. Holstein, R. Klamroth, T. Lambert, G. Lavigne-Lissalde, R. Perez, M. Richards, G. Dolan (Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium)

0103

CIRCULATING (CEC) VERSUS PROGENITOR (CEP) ENDOTHELIAL CELLS ARE ABNORMAL IN PATIENTS WITH DIFFERENT TYPES OF VON WILLEBRAND DISEASE AND CORRELATE WITH MARKERS OF ANGIOGENESIS: A COHORT STUDY OF 74 CASES
G. Gritti, A.B. Federici, A. Cortelezzi, P. Bucciarelli, M. Punzo, S. Lonati, F. Rezzonico, I. Silvestris, V. Rubini, S. La Marca, G. Lambertenghi-Deliliers, P.M. Mannucci (Deapartment of Hematology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy)

0104

THE HEMOSTATIC POTENTIAL OF ACUTE PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (APL) CELLS BY THE CALIBRATED AUTOMATED THROMBOGRAM ASSAY (CAT): MODULATION BY ARSENIC TRIOXIDE (ATO) AND ALL-TRANS RETINOIC ACID (ATRA)
A. Falanga, E. Diani, L. Russo, D. Balducci, M. Marchetti (Ospedali Riuniti Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy)

0105 SINGLE CENTRE EXPERIENCE OF DESMOPRESSIN RESPONSE IN CHILDREN WITH MILD FVIII DEFICIENCY, VON WILLEBRANDS DISEASE AND PLATELET FUNCTION DEFECTS
A. Breen, M. Kavanagh, I. Kelly, B. Nolan, I. Regan, P. Smith, C. McMahon (Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland)
0106 GENZ-11263, AN INVESTIGATIONAL ORAL THERAPY FOR GAUCHER DISEASE TYPE 1: PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL RESULTS AFTER ONE YEAR OF TREATMENT
E. Lukina, N. Watman, E. Arreguin, M. Banikazemi, G. Pastores, M. Iastrebner, M. Dragosky, H. Rosenbaum, A. Zimran, M. Kaper, S.E. Smith, A.C. Puga, J. Peterschmitt (Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation)
0107 GAUCHER DISEASE DIAGNOSTIC AND DISEASE MANAGEMENT ALGORITHMS: A GUIDE FOR HEMATOLOGISTS
M.D. Cappellini, P. K. Mistry, E. Lukina, H. Özsan, S.M. Pascual, H. Rosenbaum, M.H. Solano, Z. Spigelman, J. Villarrubia, N.P. Watman, G. Massenkeil (University of Milan, Milan, Italy)
0108 THE SEQUENTIAL COMBINED BYPASSING THERAPY (SCBT) IS EFFECTIVE AND SAFE IN THE TREATMENT OF UNRESPONSIVE BLEEDS IN HAEMOPHILIA PATIENTS WITH INHIBITORS
A. Gringeri, K. Fischer, A. Karafoulidou, M.F. López-Fernández (University of Milan, Milan, Italy)
0109 PREVALENCE OF VWD IN IRAN
M. Lak, H. Mansouritorghabeh (Tehran University of Medical Sciences,
Tehran, Iran)
0110 COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CLINICAL, X-RAY AND MRI SCORES IN THE FOLLOW-UP OF HAEMOPHILIC ARTHROPATHY
H. Pergantou, H. Platokouki, A. Papadopoulos, G. Matsinos, P. Xafaki, S. Aronis (Agia Sophia Children's Hospital, Athens, Greece)
0111 MUTATION SPECTRUM OF SEVERE VON WILLEBRAND DISEASE TYPE 3 IN INDIA
F. Ahmad, R. Schneppenheim, F. Oyen, T. Obser, U. Budde, M. Kannan, R. Saxena (All India Institute of Meical Sciences, New Delhi, India)
0112 INCIDENCE OF LUPUS ANTICOAGULANT IN HEMOPHILIA PATIENTS
V. Krasivska, O. Stasyshyn, V. Loginsky (State institution “Institute of Blood Pathology and Transfusion Medicine of AMS, Lviv, Ukraine)
0113 INDIVIDUALISED ORAL VITAMIN K FOR REVERSAL OF WARFARIN EXCESSIVE ANTICOAGULATION
M. Briz, K. Talks, J. Hanley, P. Kesteven, P. Avery, A. Daly, F. Kamali (Hospital Sierrallana, Torrelavega, Spain)
0114 NOVEL ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ACQUIRED TYPE 2 VON WILLEBRAND DISEASE AND GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASE IA (GSD IA): A REPORT OF 3 AFFECTED SIBLINGS
Y.S. Sorour, M.J. Sharrard, A. Vora, G.T. Gillett, J.H. Payne (Haematology Department, Sheffield Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, United Kingdom)
0115 BONE STATUS OF CHILDREN WITH HEMOPHILIA A ASSESSED WITH DUAL ENERGY X-RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY (DXA) AND QUANTITATIVE ULTRASONOGRAPHY (QUS): COMPARISONS AND CORRELATIONS
M. Economou, A. Christoforides, E. Papadopoulou, N. Gompakis, M. Athanassiou-Metaxa (Hippokration General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece)
0116 FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF FIBRINOGEN POZNAN: A PREMATURE TRUNCATING MUTATION IN FGG ASSOCIATED WITH HYPOFIBRINOGENEMIA AND MILD BLEEDING TENDENCY
M. Zawilska, A. Undas, L. Malendowicz-Portala, P. de Moerloose, R. Fish, M. Neerman-Arbez (J.Strus Hospital, Poznan, Poland)
0117 DIFFERENT REGIMENS OF PROPHYLAXIS TREATMENT IN YOUNG SEVERE HEMOPHILIA A PATIENTS: COMPARISONS ON EFFICACY, FVIII CONSUMPTION AND THERAPY COMPLIANCE
C. Santoro, F. Biondo, A.P. Leporace, R. Foà, M.G. Mazzucconi (Hematology, Rome, Italy)
0118 PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AS PREVENTION OF OSTEOPOROSIS IN PATIENTS WITH SEVERE HAEMOPHILIA ON LONG TERM PROPHYLAXIS
M. Khawaji, J.E. Berntorp (Malmö University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden)
0119 AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE EFFECT OF STORAGE TIME ON THE STABILITY OF SAMPLES FOR INR DETERMINATION AND THE RELIABILITY OF RESULTS THROUGH DELAYED INR DETERMINATION
C. Woods, G. McLoughlin, J. Bowers (South Eastern Trust, Belfast,United Kingdom)
0120 PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION OF PLATELET FUNCTION WITH THE PFA-100 IN ORTHOPEDIC PATIENTS RECEIVING ASPIRIN AND/OR CLOPIDOGREL
N. Tragomalos, T. Assimakopoulou, M. Stamouli, A. Giotsidou, I. Anagnosti, P. Lianidou (KAT Hospital, Kifissia, Greece)
0121 ACQUIRED HAEMOPHILIA; A COHORT OF 26 PATIENTS DIAGNOSED AND TREATED IN THE SOUTH EAST OF ENGLAND BETWEEN JAN 1996-2009
B. Chowdhury (St Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom)
0122 COAGULATION SCREENING IN AN IRISH TEACHING HOSPITAL
J. McHugh, C. Holt, D. O'Keeffe (Mid Western Regional Hospital, Limerick, Ireland)

QUALITY OF LIFE, PALLIATIVE CARE AND ETHICS

0123

VALIDATION OF THE BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE VERSION OF THE MEDICAL OUTCOMES STUDY - SOCIAL SUPPORT SURVEY IN HODGKIN LYMPHOMA SURVIVORS
A.S. Soares, A. Scheliga, R.L. Baptista, W. Pulcheri, I. Biasoli, E. Brabo, T. Vieites, T. Hofmeister, G. Werneck, N. Spector (Rio de Janeiro Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

0123a

QUALITY OF LIFE IN PATIENTS WITH VWD
S. von Mackensen, C. Moorthi., G. Auerswald (University Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

0124

PAIN RATE AND SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES RATHER THAN CUMULATIVE ORGAN DAMAGE DETERMINE THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN ADULTS WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE
C.F.J. van Tuijn, E.J. van Beers, J.J. Schnog, B.J. Biemond (Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

0125

HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE AFTER AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION: A MULTICENTRE PROSPECTIVE STUDY IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC (FINAL RESULTS)
V. Kajaba, I. Rehorova, M. Zitkova, V. Pavlicova, E. Bystricka, E. Faber (Fakultni nemocnice Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic)

0126 INFLUENCE OF ANEMIA ON QOL, CLINICAL SYMPTOMS AND COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS IN NEWLY DIAGNOSED (NOT TREATED) HEMATOLOGIC PATIENTS
D. Petranovic, R. Dobrila Dintinjana, A. Duletic Nacinovic, T. Valkovic, I. Roncevic Grzeta, K. Ruzic, S. Janovic, R. Rakun, Z. Striskovic, M. Petkovic, I. Lovasic, G. Golcic (Clinical Hospital Center Rijeka, Riijeka, Croatia)
0127 HOME CARE FOR UNFIT ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH MYELODISPLASTIC SYNDROMES: AN ITALIAN SINGLE-CENTER EXPERIENCE
P. Alfieri, L. Ferrara, G. Leonardi, M. Luppi, R. Marasca, G. Torelli, E. Favale (AIL Hematology Home Care Service, Modena, Italy)
0128 PAIN MANAGEMENT OF BORTEZOMIB-INDUCED NEUROPATHY WITH ORAL CONTROLLED-RELEASE OXYCODONE
C. Cartoni, G.A. Brunetti, P. Niscola, P.L. Alfieri, G.M. Delia, R. Foà (Hematology, University of Rome, Rome, Italy)
0129 HOW HAEMOPHILIA IMPACTS THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF ELDERLY PATIENTS
S. von Mackensen, A. Gringeri, S.M. Siboni, M. Ferretti, F. Tradati, M. Franchini, A. Tagliaferri, P.M. Mannucci (University Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany)
0130 SINGLE DOSE PALONOSETRON IN PREVENTING CHEMOTHERAPYINDUCED NAUSEA AND VOMITING (CINV) IN PATIENTS WITH AGGRESSIVE NON HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMAS (NHL) WHO UNDERWENT MODERATELY EMETOGENIC CHEMOTHERAPY (MEC)
N. Di Renzo, A. Montanini, A. Dondi, S. Muci, E. Iannitto, M.R. De Paolis, C. Plati, C. Stelitano, C. Patti, A. Olivieri, E. Liardo, G. Buda, R. Cantaffa, M. Federico (Vito Fazzi - Hospital, Lecce, Italy)
0131 PHYSICIANS AND PATIENTS PERCEPTION OF A PROBLEM AS ETHICALLY RELEVANT IN ONCOHEMATOLOGY: ONLY A QUESTION OF PERSPECTIVE?
G. Giordano, D. Sacchini, S. Piano, G. Farina, I . Carrasco de Paula, S. Storti (Research Center “J.Paul II” Catholic University Campobasso, Campobasso, Italy)
0132 COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF RIVAROXABAN VERSUS ENOXAPARIN FOR PREVENTION OF VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM AFTER TOTAL HIP AND KNEE REPLACEMENT IN EUROPE
M. Monreal, L. Ryttberg, A. Diamantopoulos, M. Lees, C. Negrini (Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol of Badalona, Barcelona, Spain)
0133 ANALYSIS OF COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH REMOBILIZATION OF HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS (HSC) USING CHEMOTHERAPY, IN PATIENTS WITH MULTIPLE MYELOMA FAILING ADEQUATE HSC COLLECTION FOR AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION WITH G-CSF ALONE
C. Hosing, V.R. Smith, B. Rhodes, R. Richmond, K.H. Walters, M.H. Qazilbash, J.D. McMannis, R. Champlin, S. Giralt, U.R. Popat (M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA)
0134 DEVOLOPMENT OF A TIME-DRIVEN ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING MODEL FOR ASSESSING THE SOCIETAL ACQUISITION COST OF ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATES IN EUROPE
D. Szucs, J. Bauwens, J. Alfonso, N. Holtuis, J. Von Knorring, J. Demey (University Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)
0135 HEALTH ECONOMIC IMPACT OF INTRAVENOUS IRON SUPPLEMENTATION IN ANEMIA TREATMENT WITH ERYTHROPOIESIS-STIMULATING AGENTS
D. Szucs, R. Blank, M. Schwenkglenks (University Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)

 

STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION – GVHD, GRAFT REJECTION, INFECTION

0136

PREVALENCE OF HUMAN HERPES VIRUS 6 CHROMOSOMAL INTEGRATION (CIHHV-6) IN ITALIAN ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL AND SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION PATIENTS
L. Potenza, P. Barozzi, P. Bresciani, M. Pecorari, G. Riva, D. Vallerini, C. Quadrelli, E. Zanetti, G. Rossi, A.M.T. Sabbatini, F. Di Benedetto, M. Codeluppi, E. Rivolti, R. D'Amico, M. Morselli, F. Forghieri, M. Maccaferri, A. Donelli, F. Rumpianesi, F. Narni, G. Torelli, M. Luppi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy)

0137

GENETIC VARIATIONS IN HEPARANASE GENE (HPSE) ARE ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED RISK OF GRAFT VS. HOST DISEASE (GVHD) FOLLOWING ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION (HSCT)
O. Ostrovsky, A. Shimoni, I. Vlodavsky, A. Nagler (Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel)

0138

IMMUNE RECONSTITUTION AND RISK OF CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION IN PATIENTS AFTER ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR PREEMPTIVE AND PROPHYLACTIC STRATEGIES
M. Schmidt-Hieber, S. Schwarck, A. Stroux, E. Thiel, H. Tillmann, P. Reinke,
S. Ganepola, L. Uharek, I. Blau (Charite Campus Benjamin Franklin,
Berlin, Germany)

0139

EXPANSION AND SUPPRESSIVE FUNCTION OF UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD REGULATORY T CELLS
G.F. Torelli, R. Maggio, N. Peragine, M.S. De Propris, M. Screnci, F. Milano, M.G. Mascolo, E. Arleo, A. Guarini, R. Foà (Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy)

0140 THE MODULATORY PROPERTIES OF REGULATORY T CELLS IN THE PERIPHERAL BLOOD OF PATIENTS WHO HAVE UNDERGONE AN ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANT CORRELATE WITH THE PRESENCE OF GRAFT-VERSUS-HOST DISEASE
G.F. Torelli, R. Maggio, N. Peragine, M.S. De Propris, B. Lucarelli, M.G. Mascolo, A.P. Iori, V. Valle, E. Iannella, A. Guarini, R. Foà (Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy)
0141 DIVERSITY AND DIFFERENTIAL INVOLVEMENT OF HLA CLASS I AND II RESTRICTED MINOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS IN GRAFT-VERSUS-LEUKEMIA REACTIVITY
M. Griffioen, A.N. Stumpf, M.W. Honders, E.D. van der Meijden, S.A.P. van Luxemburg-Heijs, C.A.M. van Bergen, R. Willemze, J.H.F. Falkenburg (Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands)
0142 CYCLOSPORINE, METHOTREXATE AND METHYLPREDNISOLONE FOR GRAFT-VERSUS-HOST DISEASE PROPHYLAXIS IN CHILDREN WITH HEMOGLOBINOPATHIES: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY
J. Gaziev, G. Lucarelli, A. Santucci, C. Gallucci, P. Sodani, P. Polchi, A. Isgrò,M. Marziali, K. Paciaroni, M.D. Simone, A. Roveda, A. Montuoro, C. Alfieri,G. De Angelis (Mediterranean Institute of Hematology, Rome, Italy)
0143 ALLOANTIGEN-SPECIFIC DE NOVO INDUCED FOXP3+ REGULATORY T CELLS FAIL TO PREVENT GVHD DUE TO IN VIVO INSTABILITY
C. Koenecke, N. Czeloth, A. Bubke, S. Schmitz, A. Kissenpfennig, B. Malissen, J. Huehn, A. Ganser, R. Förster, I. Prinz (Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany)
0144 RECOVERY OF SPECIFIC CMV CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTES AND T REG AFTER ALLOGENEIC PERIPHERAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION: A SINGLE CENTRE EXPERIENCE
D. Pastore, M. Delia, P. Carluccio, A. Mestice, M. Leo, A. Ricco, F. Gaudio, A.M. Giordano, A. Russo Rossi, V. Liso, G. Specchia (Hematology- University of Bari, Bari, Italy)
0145 PROTEOMIC PATTERNS AND GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE AFTER ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
S. Bellesi, P. Chiusolo, C. Fanali, S. Giammarco, S. Sica, R. Inzitari, F. Iavarone, G. Leone, M. Castagnola (Università Cattolica S. Cuore, Rome, Italy)
0146 CD8 DEPLETED DLI RECONSTITUTE FULL DONOR T-CELL CHIMERISM AND REPLENISH THE CD52-POSITIVE CD4 T CELL POOL AFTER ALEMTUZUMAB-BASED T-CELL DEPLETED ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
E.M. Wagner, A. Lay, T. Schmitt, J. Hemmerling, D. Wolff, K. Bender, C. Huber,W. Herr, R.G. Meyer (University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany)
0147 CYCLOSPORINE DOSE INTENSITY IS A CRITICAL DETERMINANT OF OUTCOME AFTER A REDUCED INTENSITY ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANT
C. Craddock, S. Nagra, P. Moss, M. Cook (Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom)
0148 IMPACT OF MINOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN MISMATCHES ON GRAFT-VERSUS-HOST DISEASE IN NON-MYELOABLATIVE OR REDUCED INTENSITY ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
C. Carniti, F. Spina, L. Farina, A. Raganato, A. Vendramin, S. Di Terlizzi, A. Dodero, N. Frungillo, P. Corradini (Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy)
0149 CHARACTERIZATION OF T CELL RECEPTOR BETA REPERTOIRE IN T CELL POPULATION ASSOCIATED WITH GRAFT-VERSUS-HOST AND GRAFT-VERSUS-LEUKEMIA EFFECT
V. Foltankova, E. Matejkova, M. Bartos, M. Dendis, J. Mayer, R. Hajek, J. Michalek (Masaryk University, Faculty of Medicine, Brno, Czech Republic)
0150 RETROSPECTIVE SINGLE CENTER ANALYSIS OF PENTOSTATIN FOR THE TREATMENT OF STEROID-REFRACTORY ACUTE GRAFT-VERSUS-HOST DISEASE
T. Schmitt, S. Dietrich, T. Luft, U. Hegenbart, A.D. Ho, P. Dreger (Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany)
0151 GENETIC MISMATCH IN GSTT1 IS ASSOCIATED WITH HEPATIC ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE (GVHD) IN ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION (ALLO-SCT)
I. Tallon-Ruiz (Hospital Virgen del Rocio, Sevilla, Spain)
0152 SECONDARY PROPHYLAXIS OF INVASIVE FUNGAL INFECTIONS IN ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY OF 73 CASES AT A SINGLE INSTITUTION
J-B. Wang, F. Liu (Beijing Daopei Hospital, Beijing, China)
0153 NATURAL KILLER CELL NUMBERS POST STEM CELL TRANSPLANT ARE STRONGLY ASSOCIATED WITH DONOR CHIMERISM AND ARE INCREASED FOLLOWING UMBILICAL CORD STEM CELL TRANSPLANT
U.A. Khan, O. Najam, A. Bastih, R.W. Critchley, N. Yonan, J. Fildes,R. Wynn (The Transplant Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom)
0154 ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PLASMA LEVEL CHANGES OF ENDOTHELIAL INJURY MARKERS AND GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE IN PATIENTS TREATED WITH ALLOGENEIC HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
A. Czyz, A. Anna, A. Blazejczak, E. Hanszke, D. Dytfeld, K. Zawilska, M. Komarnicki (University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland)
0155 HUMAN MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS EXPANDED WITH HUMAN PLATELET LYSATE ARE SAFE AND EFFECTIVE FOR THE TREATMENT OF STEROID-REFRACTORY GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE
C. Capelli, M. Introna, C. Micò, A. Algarotti, A. Grassi, A. Salvadè, G. Gaipa, D. Belotti, P. Perseghin, G. D'Amico, A. Rovelli, A. Balduzzi, J. Golay, A. Biondi, A. Rambaldi, E. Biagi (Lab.Cellular Therapy G.Lanzani, Bergamo, Italy)
0156 HIGH CYTOMEGALOVIRUS (CMV)-SPECIFIC CD8+ TEMRA CONTENT IN DONOR GRAFT PREDICTS A LOW RISK OF CMV REACTIVATION FOLLOWING UNMANIPULATED ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
H. Xiao-Jun, X.H. Luo (Peking University People's Hospital & Peking University Institute of Hematology, Beijing, China)

 

STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION – AUTOLOGOUS, DLI, MISCELLANEOUS

0158

DONOR LYMPHOCYTE INFUSIONS FOR CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKAEMIA RELAPSING AFTER ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANT: PROGNOSTIC FACTORS FOR A 'PURE' GVL EFFECT ARE DIFFERENT ACCORDING TO THE STAGE OF RELAPSE
C. Guglielmi, S. Iacobelli, J. Apperley, D. Bunjes, P. Jacobs, H.-J. Kolb, P. Ljungman, E. Olavarria, A. Schattenberg, A. Van Biezen, L. Verdonck, T. de Witte (Università di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy)

0159

EFFICACY OF RITUXIMAB AND DONOR LYMPHOCYTE INFUSIONS AS SALVAGE TREATMENT IN LYMPHOMA PATIENTS RELAPSED AFTER REDUCED INTENSITY ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
F. Spina, L. Farina, V. Montefusco, C. Carniti, S. Piva, M. Morelli, P. Corradini (Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy)

0160

ACUTE LUNG INJURY AFTER ALLOGENEIC HEMTOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION (HSCT) IS ASSOCIATED WITH INFERIOR SURVIVAL - A RANDOMIZED TRIAL ON THE EFFECTS OF EARLY NON-INVASIVE VENTILATION (NIV)
M. Wermke, G. Höffken, G. Ehninger, M. Bornhäuser, T. Illmer (University Hospital Dresden, Dresden, Germany)

0161

THERAPEUTIC DRUG MONITORING IS AN IMPORTANT FACTOR DURING IV BUSULFAN TREATMENT
R. Malär, M. Hassan, T. Güngör (Childrens Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland)

0162 TOTAL BODY IRRADIATION (TBI) AND THIOTEPA AS CONDITIONING TO AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION IN PATIENTS WITH FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA
M. Capponi, F. Falzetti, L. Flenghi, M. Di Ianni, P. Minga, F. Falcinelli (Istituto di Ematologia, Perugia, Italy)
0163 RECOMBINANT HUMAN GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR SIGNIFICANTLY DECREASES THE EXPRESSION OF CXCR3 AND CCR6 ON T CELLS AND PREFERENTIALLY INDUCES TH CELLS TO A TH17 PHENOTYPE IN PERIPHERAL BLOOD HARVESTS
L.X. Sun, H.Y. Ren (Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China)
0164 REDUCED INTENSITY CONDITIONING UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANTATION (RIC-UCBT) IN ADULTS: AGE, DISEASE STATUS AND INFECTIOUS COMPLICATIONS ARE IMPORTANT RISK FACTORS FOR OUTCOME
S. Fürst, C. Faucher, J. El Cheikh, J.M. Boher, P. Ladaique, C. Lemarié, N. Vey, R. Bouabdallah, A.M. Stoppa, H. De Lavallade, M. Mohty, C. Chabannon, D. Blaise (Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France)
0165 CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF PULMONARY FUNCTION TESTS IN ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL RECIPIENTS
S.K. Sohn, J.H. Moon, J.H. Park (Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu, South-Korea)
0166 HUMAN BONE MARROW AS SOURCE OF STEM CELLS FOR INTRAPANCREATIC TRANSPLANTATION IN IMMUNODEFICIENT MICE: EVIDENCE OF PANCREATIC-CELL LINEAGE COMMITMENT BY GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS
M.T. Arce-Franco, J.M. Raya, M. Barajas, M.J. Dominguez-Luis, A.M. Herrera, A. Diaz-Martín, T. Martín-Santos, L. Morabito, M.J. Rodriguez-Salazar, J. Lopez-Fernandez (Hospital Universitario de Canarias, La Laguna, Spain)
0167 RESULT OF DOUBLE UNITS CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANTATION IN CHILDREN AND ASSOCIATION OF CFU-GM WITH THE DETERMINATION OF DOMINANCY
H.J. Kang, K.H. Yoo, J.W. Lee, H. Kim, S.H. Lee, K.W. Sung, H.H. Koo, H.Y. Shin, H.S. Ahn (Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South-Korea)
0168 A PHASE I STUDY OF CLOFARABINE PLUS HIGH DOSE MELPHALAN AS A CONDITIONING REGIMEN FOR ALLOGENEIC TRANSPLANTATION
M. Kirschbaum, A.S. Stein, R. Nakamura, A. Nademanee, L. Popplewell, M. Delioukina, R. Chen, D. Snyder, J. Conrad, P. Frankel, S. Forman (City of Hope National Cancer Center, Duarte, USA)
0169 PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY/ COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (PET/CT) IN PATIENTS WITH LYMPHOMA TREATED WITH AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION FOR RELAPSED/REFRACTORY OR HIGH RISK DISEASE
P.M. Stefani, U. Salvadori, M. Gottardi, S. Bissoli, F. Chierichetti, F. Gherlinzoni (Struttura Complessa di Ematologia, Treviso, Italy)
0170 BOTH IL-3 AND IL-6 ARE NECESSARY FOR BETTER EX VIVO EXPANSION OF CD133+ CELLS FROM UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD
P. Bordeaux-Rego, A. Luzo, F.F. Costa, S.T.O. Saad, D.P. Crosara-Alberto (University of Campinas-Brazil, Campinas, Brazil)
0171 TRACKING OF DONOR TYPE GREN FLUORESCENT (GFP) AND LUCIFERASE (LUC) POSITIVE MARROW MONONUCLEAR OR MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS IN POSTMORTEM SPINAL CORD HISTOPATHOLOGICAL SECTIONS FOR DETERMINATION OF REGENERATION IN A SPINAL CORD INJURY MODEL
M. Beksac, I. Kuzu, M. Ozdemir, M. Ayten, K. Dalva, D. Uçkan, E. Kiliç, A. Attar, M. Beksac, Y. Kanpolat (Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey)
0172 TEAM (THIOTEPA, ETOPOSIDE, CYTARABINE, MELPHALAN) AS CONDITIONING REGIMEN FOR LYMPHOMA TREATMENT WITH AUTOLOGOUS HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION (AHSCT)
A.M. Carella, G. Palumbo, E. Merla, F. Ferrara, M. Greco, M. Dell'Olio, P. Scalzulli, G. Pisapia, P. Mazza, A. Guarini, A. Iacobazzi, P. Musto, S. Capalbo, N. Cascavilla (Casa Sollievo Della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy)

NOVEL THERAPEUTICS, TARGETED THERAPIES AND GENE THERAPY - PRECLINICAL & CLINICAL

0173

ACE-0, A SOLUBLE ACTIVIN RECEPTOR-LIKE KINASE FUSION PROTEIN, IS A NOVEL ANTI-ANGIOGENIC AGENT
A.V. Grinberg, D.C. Mitchell, E.G. Pobre, J.A. Ucran, A.W. Mulivor, N. Solban, K.W. Underwood, R. Kumar, R. Pearsall, J. Seehra (Acceleron Pharma, Cambridge, USA)

0174

PHARMACOLOGY OF CPX-351: A NANO-SCALE LIPOSOMAL FIXED MOLAR RATIO CYTARABINE-DAUNORUBICIN FOR PATIENTS WITH ADVANCED LEUKEMIA
E.J. Feldman, J.E. Lancet, J.E. Kolitz, J.M. Trang, L. Mayer, A.C. Louie (Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA)

0175

UTILIZING CELL-BASED SCREENING TO IDENTIFY NOVEL USES FOR EXISTING DRUGS: INDUCING SPECIFIC APOPTOSIS OF B-CELL LYMPHOCYTES
T. Bennett, D. Primo, L. Suarez, S. Lago, M. Matoses Osborne, C. Tudela, E. Arroyo, A. Espinosa, W. Jackson, A. Okun, A. Orfao, J. Ballesteros (Vivia Biotech, Málaga, Spain)

0176

HUMAN MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS DISPLAY SKEWED ADHESION RECEPTOR USAGE FOR ARREST ON ENDOTHELIAL CELLS AND TRANSENDOTHELIAL MIGRATION, FAVOURING E-SELECTIN, BETA1 INTEGRINS, AND A PLEIOTROPIC CHEMOKINE RESPONSE: IMPLICATIONS FOR CELLULAR THERAPY WITH MSC
D. Henschler, E. Deak, F. Ciuculescu, M. Giesen, N. Hartmann, E. Seifried (Institute of Transfusion Medicine, Frankfurt, Germany)

0177 A NOVEL RECOMBINANT BISPECIFIC ANTIBODY TARGETING HM1.24 ON MULTIPLE MYELOMA
M. Peipp, C. Ehlert, M. Staudinger, A. Muskulus, C. Kellner, S. Mohseni Nodehi, P. Glorius, M. Dechant, R. Burger, J. Brünke, G.H. Fey, M. Gramatzki, R. Repp (Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany)
0178 D EPITOPE EVALUATION OF THE 25 RHESUS D SPECIFIC IGG1 ANTIBODIES IN ROZROLIMUPAB (SYM001), THE FIRST RECOMBINANT POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY PRODUCT
M. Wikén, A.M. Valentin Jensen, P.S. Andersen, W.A. Flegel (Biovitrum, Stockholm, Sweden)
0179 IBRITUMOMAB TIUXETAN IN LYMPHOMA- A SINGLE CENTRE EXPERIENCE FROM KUWAIT
P. Nair, A.l. Shemmari, H. Chokshi, S. Sajnani (Kuwait Cancer Control Centre, Calicut, Kerala, India)
0180 THE CXCR4 ANTAGONIST 4F-BENZOYL-TN14003 STIMULATES THE EXIT OF HEMATOPIETIC CELLS AND THE REGENERATION OF THE BONE MARROW FOLLOWING TRANSPLANTATION
A. Peled, M. Abraham, K. Beider, A. Nagler, Z. Zipori, E. Eizenberg (Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel)
0181 DEXAMETHASONE AND DASATINIB INDUCE SYNERGISTIC INHIBITION OF MAJOR T CELL EFFECTOR FUNCTIONS
R. Seggewiss, C. Dix, H. Einsele (University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany)
0182 EX VIVO ACTIVITY OF SGI-17, A POTENT SMALL MOLECULE PIM KINASE INHIBITOR, IN PRIMARY HUMAN LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA CELLS
P. Taverna, G. Berk, S. Kanekal, D. Bearss (SuperGen, Dublin, USA)
0183 IN VITRO ANALYSIS OF NOVEL ANTI-CD20 ANTIBODY GA101
AND RITUXIMAB IN MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA

D. Heinrich, K. Decheva, M. Weinkauf, G. Hutter, Y. Zimmermann, T. Weiglein, W. Hiddemann, M. Dreyling (Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Munich - Campus Großhadern, Munich, Germany)
0184 EFFECTS OF THE PI3 KINASE/MTOR INHIBITOR NVP-BEZ235 ON GROWTH AND IGE-DEPENDENT MEDIATOR RELEASE IN HUMAN BASOPHILS AND MAST CELLS
K. Blatt (Medical University of Vienna, Austria, Vienna, Austria)
0185 EFFECT OF THE NON-PEPTIDE THROMBOPOIETIN RECEPTOR AGONIST ELTROMBOPAG (PROMACTA_/REVOLADE(TM)) ONBONE MARROW CELLS FROM PATIENTS WITH ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA AND MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES
B. Will, J.P. Luciano, M. Kawahara, C. Erickson-Miller, A. Verma, M. Aivado, U. Steidl (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA)
0186 FETAL HEMOGLOBIN (HBF) MODULATION BY NOVEL ALKYLATING AGENTS IN HUMAN ERYTHROID CELLS; SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS WITH ESTABLISHED HBF-INDUCING AGENTS
I. Chiotoglou, M. Samara, G. Paterakis, S. Likousi, Z. Iakovidou, E. Mioglou, D. Mourelatos, I. Marinou, P. Liakos, P. Kollia (University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece)
0187 LENALIDOMIDE IN ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA
A. Tempescul, J.C. Ianotto, G. Guillerm, C. Berthou (University Hospital Brest, Brest, France)
0188 BINDING OF THE RECOMBINANT POLYCLONAL ANTI-D PRODUCT ROZROLIMUPAB (SYM001) AND PLASMA DERIVED ANTI-D TO RHD VARIANTS
M. Wikén, A.M. Valentin Jensen, P.S. Andersen, W.A. Flegel (Biovitrum, Stockholm, Sweden)
0189 CD200, A CELL SURFACE PROTEIN WITH IMMUNOREGULATORY FUNCTION, IS A NEW POTENTIAL TARGET FOR HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCIES IMMUNOTHERAPY
L. Brunetti, E. Abate, M. Gorrese, M. Raia, C. Pascariello, A. Gravetti, G. Scalia, L. Del Vecchio (Ceinge Institute, Naples, Italy)
0190 SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT WITH BEVACIZUMAB IN POEMSSYNDROME
V. Buxhofer-Ausch, B. Gisslinger, G. Stangl, H. Rauschka, H. Gisslinger (Donauspital, Wien, Austria)
0191 SLUG AND ERK (P42-44): NEW TARGETS IN CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA THERAPY
M. Mancini, S. Petta, V. Corradi, G. Martinelli, E. Barbieri, M.A. Santucci (Istituto di Ematologia e Oncologia Medica L. e A. Seràgnoli, Bologna, Italy)
0192 CMC-54, AN ANTI-CD22 IMMUNO-CONJUGATE OF CALICHEAMICIN, DECREASES THE LEVEL OF COMPLEMENT INHIBITORY FACTORS ON MALIGNANT B-CELL LYMPHOMA CELLS
A. Takeshita, N. Yamakage, K. Shinjo, I. Hirano, T. Ono, H. Fujihara, H. Watanabe, K. Iino, D. Hashimoto, M. Maekawa, K. Ohnishi, R. Ohno (Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan)

RED BLOOD CELLS AND IRON I

0193

EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF DEFERASIROX IN REDUCING MYOCARDIAL
SIDEROSIS IN PATIENTS WITH B-THALASSAEMIA MAJOR

D. Pennell, J.B. Porter, M.D. Cappellini, L.L. Chan, A. El-Beshlawy, Y. Aydinok, H. Ibrahim, C.-K. Li, V. Viprakasit, M. Elalfy, A. Kattamis, G. Smith, D. Habr, G. Domokos, A. Hmissi, A. Taher (Royal Brompton Hospital, London, United Kingdom)

0194

LABILE PLASMA IRON LEVELS IN HEAVILY IRON-OVERLOADED PATIENTS WITH TRANSFUSION-DEPENDENT ANAEMIAS IN RESPONSE TO DEFERASIROX THERAPY: RESULTS FROM THE LARGE-SCALE, PROSPECTIVE 1-YEAR EPIC TRIAL
A. Kattamis, A. El-Beshlawy, J.F. Seymour, C.-K. Li, H. Nick, D. Habr, G. Domokos, B. Roubert, M.D. Cappellini (University of Athens, Athens, Greece)

0195

THE EFFICACY OF IRON CHELATOR REGIMES IN REDUCING CARDIAC AND HEPATIC IRON IN PATIENTS WITH THALASSAEMIA MAJOR: A CLINICAL OBSERVATIONAL STUDY
V.A. Berdoukas, G.I. Chouliaras, P. Moraitis, K. Zannikos, E. Berdoussi, A. Ladis (Thalassaemia Unit, Athens, Greece)

0196

INCREASED PLASMA LEVELS OF NGAL AND IL-18 CORRELATE WITH REDUCED GFR PROVIDING EVIDENCE OF TUBULOGLOMERULAR DEFECT IN PATIENTS WITH HBS/BETA-THALASSEMIA
I. Papassotiriou, A. Margeli, E. Hantzi, E. Terpos, I. Voskaridou (Aghia Sophia Childen's Hospital, Athens, Greece)

0197 ANALYSIS OF IRON HOMEOSTASIS AND ERYTHROID ACTIVITY IN A COHORT OF LOW-RISK MYELODYSPLASTIC PATIENTS
E. Messa, C. Maffè, G. Volpe, N. Campostrini, D. Gioia, A. Levis, D. Cilloni, D. Girelli, C. Camaschella, G. Saglio (University of Turin, Orbassano, Italy)
0198 MYOCARDIAL LESIONS AND IRON DEPOSITS AFTER TREATMENT WITH ANTHRACYCLINES
A. Cascales, F. Pastor, B. Sanchez-Vega, J. Corral, V. Vicente, F. Ayala (Centro Hemodonacion, Murcia, Spain)
0199 ASSESSMENT OF SAFETY IN PATIENTS RECEIVING LONGER-TERM IRON CHELATION THERAPY WITH DEFERASIROX WHO HAD ACHIEVED SERUM FERRITIN LEVELS OF <1000 NG/ML DURING THE STUDY COURSE
J.B. Porter, A. Piga, A. Cohen, J.M. Ford, J. Bodner, M.D. Cappellini (University College London, London, United Kingdom)
0200 SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF IRON CHELATION THERAPY WITH DEFERASIROX IN PATIENTS WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE (SCD): 3.5-YEAR FOLLOW-UP
E. Vichinsky, T. Coates, A.A. Thompson, F. Bernaudin, D. Lagrone, V. Dong, M.M. Heeney (Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland, Oakland, USA)
0201 DEFERASIROX IN PAEDIATRIC PATIENTS WITH THALASSAEMIA MAJOR: 1-YEAR RESULTS FROM A LARGE PAEDIATRIC COHORT ENROLLED IN THE PROSPECTIVE, MULTICENTRE EPIC STUDY
A. Filosa, M. Elalfy, C. Li, Y. Lai, L.L. Chan, P. Sutcharitchan, D. Habr,G. Domokos, B. Roubert, A. El-Beshlawy (Cardarelli Hospital, Naples, Italy)
0202 DELETION IN THE LDLR1 & 2 DOMAINS IN THE TMPRSS6 GENE IN A CHILD CAUSES IRIDA WITH EXTREMELY HIGH HEPCIDIN LEVEL
I. Tchou, M. Diepold, M. Neerman-Arbez, P. Beris (Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland)
0203 OUTCOMES OF PATIENTS WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE ADMITTED TO THE INTENSIVE THERAPY UNIT - A SINGLE INSTITUTION EXPERIENCE
C.J. Gardner, C. Bell, M. Allman, M. Ervine, S.L. Thein, M. Awogbade (King's College Hospital, London, United Kingdom)
0204 TREATMENT WITH DEFERASIROX EFFECTIVELY DECREASES IRON BURDEN IN PATIENTS WITH THALASSEMIA INTERMEDIA
E. Voskaridou, M. Konstantinidou, M. Douskou, E. Plata, M. Papadakis, E.E. Delaki, D. Christoulas, E. Terpos (Thalassemia Center, Laikon General Hospital, Athens, Greece)
0205 ACUTE SPLENIC SEQUESTRATION IN SICKLE CELL DISEASE (SCD)
V. Brousse, E. Lesprit, F. Bernaudin, M.H. Odievre, C. Guitton, B. Quinet, S. Dangiolo, M. De Montalembert (Hopital Necker, Paris, France)
0206 IRON CHELATION THERAPY WITH DEFERASIROX FOR TRANSFUSIONAL IRON-OVERLOADED PATIENTS WITH APLASTIC ANAEMIA AND OTHER RARE ANAEMIAS
J.B. Porter, S.-S. Yoon, Z.X. Shen, S.L. Thein, K.-H. Lin, D. Habr, G. Domokos, B. Roubert, J.W. Lee (University College London, London, United Kingdom)
0207 A CLOSER LOOK AT CELLULAR IRON METABOLISM IN IRP2 DEFICIENT ERYTHROBLASTS
M Schranzhofer, B Galy, M Schifrer, M Hentze, E Muellner, P Ponka (Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
0209 DEFERASIROX SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCES IRON BURDEN IN HEAVILY IRON-OVERLOADED PATIENTS WITH BETATHALASSAEMIA: 2.7 YEAR RESULTS FROM THE ESCALATOR STUDY
A. Taher, A. El-Beshlawy, M. Elalfy, K. Al Zir, S. Daar, D. Habr, U. Kriemler- Krahn, B. Roubert, A. Al Jefri (American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon)

 

RED BLOOD CELLS AND IRON II

0210

DEFERASIROX FOR THE TREATMENT OF TRANSFUSIONAL IRON OVERLOAD IN SICKLE CELL ANEMIA: A 1-YR PROSPECTIVE STUDY
R. Cancado, M.C.A. Olivato, P. Bruniera, C. Chiattone (Santa Casa Medical School, Sao Paolo, Brazil)

0211

HPLC QUANTITATION OF ALPHA-GLOBIN HEMOGLOBINOPATHIES IS INFLUENCED BY CONCURRENT ALPHA-THALASSEMIA
M. Okon, A. Braester, D. Filon, Y. Dickstein (Leumit Health Fundation, Petach-Tiqva, Israel)

0212

GLUTATHIONE S TRANSFERASE GENE MUTATIONS AS THE CANDIDATE FACTOR RESPONSIBLE FOR THE OXIDATIVE STRESS BURDEN IN INDIAN HBE/B THALASSEMIA PATIENTS
V. Sharma, B. Kumar, R. Saxena (All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India)

0213

ALTERATIONS IN CONTRACTILE RESPONSE OF DETRUSOR SMOOTH MUSCLE OF SICKLE CELL DISEASE TRANSGENIC MICE
M.A. Claudino (UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil)

0214 DO WE HAVE TO RECONSIDER FERRITIN OPTIMAL LEVELS IN MULTITRANSFUSED THALASSAEMIA MAJOR PATIENTS?
K. Farmaki, I. Tzoumari, Ch. Pappa (Thalassaemia Unit, Corith, Greece)
0215 TREATMENT WITH DEFERASIROX EFFECTIVELY DECREASES IRON BURDEN IN PATIENTS WITH SICKLE CELL SYNDROMES
E. Voskaridou, M. Douskou, E. Plata, C. Papanikolaou, E.E. Delaki, D. Christoulas, E. Terpos (Thalassemia Center, Laikon General Hospital, Athens, Greece)
0217 RELEVANCE OF ALPHA HEMOGLOBIN STABILIZING PROTEIN POLYMORPHISMS IN SICKLE CELL DISEASE PATIENTS FROM OMAN
V. Pathare, A. Al Zadjali, S. Alkindi, N. Huneini, S. Al Farsi, L. Misquith, J. Dennison, R. Krishnamoorthy (Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman)
0218 NON-TRANSFERRIN-BOUND IRON: A NOVEL INDICATOR OF IRON OVERLOAD IN PATIENTS WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE
A. Inati, K. Musallam, M. Taha, F. Ziade, A. Taher (Rafik Hariri University Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon)
0219 OUTCOME OF PREGNANCY IN SICKLE CELL SYNDROMES. A SINGLE CENTER STUDY
E. Plata (Laiko General Hospital, Athens, Greece)
0220 INCREASED PLATELET AND NEUTROPHIL ADHESION IN SICKLE CELL DISEASE CORRELATES DIFFERENTLY TO VARIABLE LEVELS OF HEMOGLOBIN A
M.A.C. Bezerra, C.F. Franco-Penteado, C. Lanaro, S. Gambero, K.Y. Fertrin, M.R.B. Mello, D.M. Albuquerque, S.T.O. Saad, A.S. Araujo, F.F. Costa (UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil)
0221 IMPLEMENTATION, EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF A BLOOD CONSERVATION PROTOCOL IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING SURGERY FOR HIP FRACTURE REPAIR. AN ANALYSIS OF 399 CONSECUTIVE PROCEDURES
J.A. García-Erce, J. Cuenca, S. Haman-Alcober, B. Soria, D. Rubio, A. Herrera, M. Muñoz (SALUD, Zaragoza, Spain)
0222 OXIDANT-ANTIOXIDANT SYSTEM AND LYMPHOCYTE DNA DAMAGE IN BETA THALASSEMIA CHILDREN
M. Soker (Dicle University Faculty of Medicine, Diyarbakir, Turkey)
0223 DISORDERS OF GLUCOSE METABOLISM ARE A MAJOR ENDOCRINE COMPLICATION IN OMANI THALASSAEMICS
S. Daar, N. Woodhouse, K. Panjwani, O. Elshafie, A.V. Pathare (Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman)
0224 OXYDATIVE STRESS AND ERYTHROPOIETIN REDUCTION DURING AND AFTER A FOURTEEN DAYS SCUBA DIVE
B.M. Ricerca, L. Revelli, A.M. D'Amore, E. Di Stasio, S. Persichilli, G. Storti, C.P. Lombardi, J. Gervasoni, S. Vagnoni (Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy)
0225 ENDOSOMAL TRANSPORT OF TRANSFERRIN TO MITOCHONDRIA IS ESSENTIAL FOR EFFICIENT UTILIZATION OF IRON FOR HEME SYNTHESIS
P. Ponka, A.-S. Zhang, T. Kahawita, O. Shirihai, D. Sheftel (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)

PLATELETS & THROMBOCYTOPENIA I

0226

REDUCED CORTICOSTEROID IN ADULTS WITH ITP RECEIVING ROMIPLOSTIM
M. Michel, C. Desborough (CHU Henri Mondor, Service de Médecine
Interne, Créteil, France)

0227

MULTICENTER STUDY OF LOW-DOSE ANTI-CD20 VELTUZUMAB FOR
TREATMENT OF RELAPSED IMMUNE THROMBOCYTOPENIA (ITP)

A. Wegener, H.A. Liebman, M.N. Saleh, R. Abassi, J. Bussel, T.M. Cosgriff, H. Horne, T. Wolffgram, D.M. Goldenberg (Immunomedics, Inc, Morris Plains, USA)

0228

SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF LAPAROSCOPIC SPLENECTOMY IN PATIENTS WITH REFRACTORY IMMUNE THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA. A LONG-TERM SURVEY
N. Cascavilla, M. Scaramuzzi, A. Ambrosio, C. Bodenizza, A. Falcone, L. Melillo, M. Nobile, G. Sanpaolo, P. Scalzulli, P. Di Tonno, P Di Sebastiano (Hematology, “Casa Sollievo Della Sofferenza” Hospital IRCCS, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy)

0229

USE OF FONDAPARINUX IN PATIENTS WITH SUSPECTED HEPARIN-INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA
E. Marti Saez, S. Novelli Canales, J. Mateo Arranz, A. Oliver, A. Santamaria Ortiz, J.C. Souto Andres, J. Fontcuberta Boj (Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain)

0230 THE HOSPITALIZATION NEED AND COST OF ADULT PRIMARY IMMUNE THROMBOCYTOPENIA (ITP) TREATMENT: A MONOCENTRIC EVALUATION
M. Ruggeri, S.F. Fortuna, F.R. Rodeghiero (San Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy)
0231 DURABLE AND OVERALL PLATELET RESPONSES IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA (ITP) DURING LONG-TERM TREATMENT WITH ORAL ELTROMBOPAG BY SPLENECTOMY STATUS: THE RAISE STUDY
R. Stasi, G. Cheng, M.N. Saleh, J. Bussel, S. Vasey, B. Mayer, M. Aivado, M. Arning, N.L. Stone (Regina Apostolorum Hospital, Alabano Laziale, Italy)
0232 STUDY OF THE IN VITRO EFFECT OF THE NONPEPTIDE THROMBOPOIETIN -RECEPTOR AGONIST SB-49711 (ELTROMBOPAG) ON MEGAKARYOPOIESIS OF PATIENTS WITH LOW/INTERMEDIATE-I RISK MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME
I. Mavroudi, M. Psyllaki, K. Pyrovolaki, G. Gvazava, C. Kalpadakis, H.A. Papadaki (University of Crete School of Medicine, Heraklion, Greece)
0233 IMPROVEMENT IN FATIGUE AND HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE (HRQOL) WITH LONG-TERM ELTROMBOPAG THERAPY IN CHRONIC IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA (ITP): RESULTS OF PHASE , DOUBLE-BLIND STUDY(RAISE)
D. Provan, J.B. Bussel, G. Cheng, K.M. Grotzinger, M. Duh, J. Signorovitch, N.L. Stone, M. Aivado (Bart's and the London Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom)
0234 USEFULNESS OF PRETEST CLINICAL SCORES ('4T'S) AND THEIR CORRELATION WITH THE RAPID ID-HEPARIN / PF4 ANTIBODY TESTING FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA
K. Mathur, L. Anderson, R. Green, R. Soutar (Scottish National Blood Transfusion Services, Glasgow, United Kingdom)
0235 PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF ABBREVIATED COURSE RITUXIMAB FOR AUTOIMMUNE HAEMATOLOGICAL DISORDERS REFRACTORY TO STANDARD IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE THERAPY
S.Z. He, D.A. Ritchie, B. Kuss, P. Macardle, K.E. Matoga, A.P. Grigg (The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia)
0236 CHRONIC IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA THERAPIES: THE PATIENTS' PERSPECTIVE ON BOTHERSOME EFFECTS
R. Horblyuk, A. Matzdorff, T.M. Brown, K.M. Grotzinger, A. Brainsky (GlaxoSmithKline, Collegeville, USA)
0237 THROMBOPOIETIN RECEPTOR (CMPL) EXPRESSION IN INHERITED AND ACQUIRED PLATELET DISORDERS
S. Vettore, R. Scandellari, M. Scapin, F. Tezza, M.L. Randi, F. Fabris (University of Padua Medical School, Padova, Italy)
0238 EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF INTRAVENOUS ANTI-D TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH REFRACTORY AUTOIMMUNE THROMBOCYTOPENIC
PURPURA

M. Mantzourani, S. Raptis, L. Dimitrakopoulou, T. Vassilakopoulos, M. Moschogianni, A. Katsandri, G. Pangalis, G. Vaiopoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Goudi, Athens, Greece)
0239 IMPROVEMENT IN FATIGUE AND HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE (HRQOL) WITH LONG-TERM ELTROMBOPAG TREATMENT IN ADULTS WITH CHRONIC IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA (ITP): THE EXTEND STUDY
J. Bussel, M. Saleh, A. Salama, K.M. Grotzinger, M. Duh, J. Signorovitch, N.L. Stone, M. Aivado (Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA)
0240 MICOPHENOLAT MOPHETIL IN THE TREATMENT OF REFRACTORY ADULT CHRONIC IMMUNE THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA
M. Colovic, A. Vidovic, D. Tomin, I. Elezovic, N. Colovic, V. Palibrk (Institute of Hematology, Belgrade, Serbia)
0241 RITUXIMAB IN THE TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH REFRACTORY IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA
C. Montes-Gaisan, J. Nunez, L. Yanez, A. Bermudez, M. Ruiz, I. Olaya, J. Baro, E. Conde, A. Iriondo (Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain)
0242 CORTICOSTEROIDS FOR THE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA: PATIENT-PERCEIVED BURDEN
K. Grotzinger, A. Matzdorff, T.M. Brown, R. Horblyuk, A. Brainsky (GlaxoSmithKline, Collegeville, USA)
0243 COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF PLATELET COUNTING ON CELLAVISION DIFFMASTERTM OCTAVIA VERSUS OPTICAL FLUORESCENT PLATELET COUNTING ON SYSMEX XT-2000I AUTOMATED HEMATOLOGY ANALYZER
A. Agorasti, E. Nikolakopoulou, E. Memet Ali, D. Konstantinidou (General Hospital of Xanthi, Xanthi, Greece)
0244 MEDICAL CONTRAINDICATIONS FOR SPLENECTOMY AMONG ADULTS WITH IMMUNE THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA (ITP): DATA FROM THE GENERAL PRACTICE RESEARCH DATABASE (GPRD)
W.M. Schoonen, L. Li, J.P. Fryzek, J.A. Kaye (Amgen Ltd, Uxbridge, Middlesex, United Kingdom)
0245 COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF 4 AUTOMATED HEMATOLOGIC ANALYSERS (ADVIA120, PENTRA120DX, LH750, XE2100) WITH IMMUNOLOGICAL REFERENCE METHOD IN THROMBOCYTOPENIC HAEMATOLOGICAL PATIENTS
M. Cedrone, F. Papa, S. Fenu, A. Chierichini, B. Anaclerico, V. Panetta, N. Antonucci, S. Cortese, M. Rongioletti, G. Liumbruno, L. Lenti, G. Avvisati, L. Annino (San Giovanni Hospital, Rome, Italy

MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES I

0246

LENALIDOMIDE ABROGATES THE CLONAL ADVANTAGE OF DEL(5Q) MDS STEM CELLS VIA ALTERATION OF NICHE INTERACTIONS
C. Scharenberg, M. Jädersten, J. Palmquist, L. Forsblom, M. Jansson, E. Hellström-Lindberg (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden)

0247

EVALUATION OF COMORBIDITY AS PROGNOSTIC VARIABLE IN 419 PATIENTS WITH MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES: A STUDY OF THE AUSTRIAN MDS WORKING GROUP
W.R. Sperr, F. Wimazal, M. Kundi, C. Baumgartner, T. Nösslinger, A. Makrai, R. Stauder, O. Krieger, M. Pfeilstoecker, P. Valent (Dept. of Int. Med I, Vienna, Austria)

0248

A NOVEL RECURRENT GENETIC ABNORMALITY IN MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES (MDS): REARRANGEMENTS AND AMPLIFICATIONS OF IER3
D.P. Steensma, J. Neiger, J.C. Porcher, J. Keats, P.L. Bergsagel, R.A. Knudson, R. Santana-Davila, R. Kumar, R.P. Ketterling (Mayo Clinic, Rochester Minnesota, USA)

0249

NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE BIOLOGY OF REFRACTORY ANEMIA WITH RING SIDEROBLASTS (RARS) AND IDENTIFICATION OF ERYTHROID G-CSF TARGETS BY GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING
M. Nikpour, A. Pellagatti, A. Liu, M. Karimi, L. Malcovati, A. Forsblom, V. Gogvadze, J. Wainscoat, M. Cazzola, B. Zhivotovsky, A. Grandien, J. Boultwood, E. Hellström-Lindberg (Karolinska Institute, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden)

0250 ABT 737 BCL-2 INHIBITOR TARGETS LEUKEMIC STEM CELLS IN MOUSE MODELS OF MYELOID (PRE)LEUKAEMIA
R.-A. Padua, S. Beurlet, M. Saeed, N. Omidvar, P. Krief, D. Auboeuf, C. Le Pogam, M. Reboul, A. Soulié, A. Janin, M.-E. Noguera, P. Merlet, L. Sarda-Mentel, P. Fenaux, M. Fontenay, M. Konopleva, M. Andreeff, G. Mufti, F. Rassool, K. Mills, A. Tu, D. Voehringer, M. Pla, C. Chomienne (Institut Universitaire d'Hematologie, Paris, France)
0251 FISH PROBES DERIVED FROM ARRAY CGH (ACGH) REVEAL NOVEL CHROMOSOMAL LESIONS IN MDS PATIENTS WITH A NORMAL KARYOTYPE
P. Bernasconi, I. Dambruoso, M. Boni, P.M. Cavigliano, S. Calatroni, I. Giardini, B. Rocca, R. Zappatore, C. Calvello, M. Caresana, M. Lazzarino (Division of Hematology, Foundation IRCCS Policlinico S. Matteo, Pavia, Italy)
0252 ALLOGENIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANT IN MDS: RESULTS OF THE SPANISH REGISTRY
O. Lopez-Villar, I. Cordoba, R. Martino, J.A. Perez-Simon, V. Gomez, T. Bernal, R.F. Duarte, M. Tormo, B. Xicoy, J. Bargay, E. Salido, L. Benlloch, G. Sanz, M.C. Del Cañizo, RE-SMD Registro Español de SMD, GETH Grupo Español de Transplante (Hospital Universitario de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain)
0253 MICRORNA SIGNATURE OF CD34+ CELLS IN MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME PATIENTS WITH DEL(5Q)
H. Bruchova, M. Merkerova, A. Vasikova, M. Belickova, J. Cermak (Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague, Czech Republic)
0254 THE CAPACITY OF THE HYPOMETHYLATING AGENTS AZACYTIDINE AND DECITABINE TO INDUCE APOPTOSIS AND CELL CYCLE ARREST DEPENDS ON THE ACTIVATION OF THE DNA-DAMAGE RESPONSE PATHWAY
S. Boehrer, L. Adès, C. Gardin, P. Fenaux, G. Kroemer (Hôpital Avicenne, Bobigny, France)
0255 TREATMENT OUTCOME ACCORDING TO PRETREATMENT RISK GROUP IN MDS PATIENTS WHO WERE TREATED WITH AZACITIDINE
S.K. Sohn, J.H. Baek, J.H. Moon, J.H. Park, J.S. Chung, H.J. Won, S.M. Lee, Y.S. Joo, Y.K. Kim, H.J. Kim, D.Y. Jo, J.G. Kim, Y.S. Chae (Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu, South-Korea)
0256 RUNX1 MUTATIONS IN DE NOVO MDS AND CMML AT BOTH DIAGNOSIS AND AML TRANSFORMATION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ON 80 MATCHED PAIRED MARROW SAMPLES
M.-C. Kuo, D.-C. Liang, C.-F. Huang, Y.-S. Shih, T.-L. Lin, J.-H. Wu, L.-Y. Shih (Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan)
0257 EXPRESSION OF P53 OR CYTOPLASMIC NUCLEOPHOSMINE ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED RISK OF DISEASE PROGRESSION IN MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME WITH ISOLATED DEL(5Q)
M.S. Jädersten, L. Saft, H. Garelius, R. Hast, L. Nilsson, J. Samuelsson, A. Porwit, E. Hellström-Lindberg (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden)
0258 DIFFERENT PATTERNS OF TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE (HTERT) MRNA VARIANT EXPRESSION PROFILES IN PATIENTS WITH MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES
E. Verrou, V. Kaloutsi, E. Katodritou, V. Gastari, A. Banti, A. Nikitidou, V. Garypidou, K. Zervas, V. Kotoula (Theagenio Cancer Center, Thessaloniki, Greece)
0259 INCREASED FREQUENCY OF REGULATORY T-CELLS IN PATIENTS WITH MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES
C. Fozza, F. Longu, S. Contini, A. Galleu, P. Virdis, M.P. Simula,M. Longinotti (University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy)
0260 PHOSPHOINOSITIDE-PHOSPHOLIPASE C (PI-PLC) BETA1 AS A TARGET OF EPIGENETIC THERAPY IN MDS PATIENTS
M. Follo, C. Finelli, S. Mongiorgi, C. Clissa, F. Chiarini, C. Bosi, M. Baccarani, L. Manzoli, G. Martinelli, A. Martelli, L. Cocco (University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
0261 HYPOMETHYLATING AGENTS IN MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME - SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS
R. Gurion, L. Vidal, A. Gafter-Gvili, Y. Belnik, M. Yeshurun, P. Raanani, O. Shpilberg (Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva, Israel)
0263 ARHGAP, A PARTNER OF ALPHA-CATENIN, MAY BE ALTERED EXPRESSED IN BONE MARROW CELLS FROM PATIENTS WITH MYELODYSPLATIC SYNDROMES LACKING 5Q DELETION
K.S. Barcellos, S.M.B. Winnischofer, M. Lazarini, A.S.S. Duarte, F. Traina, F.F. Costa, S.T.O. Saad (State University of Campinas, Campinas, Campinas, Brazil)
0265 MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS FROM 5Q- SYNDROME PATIENTS SHOW INCREASED EXPRESSION OF FGF4 AND IL32 IN COMPARISON TO OTHER MDS
C.M. Santamaria, O. Lopez-Villar, F.M. Sanchez-Guijo, P. Hernandez-Campo, M.C. Del Cañizo (University Hospital of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain)
0266 'MONOCYTOSIS' THAT DEFINES CHRONIC MYELOMONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA INCLUDES A PROPORTION OF IMMATURE GRANULOCYTES WITH A DISTINCT MOLECULAR SIGNATURE
A.J. Jacquel, N.D. Droin, M.C. Ciudad, C.R. Racoeur, V. Gelsi-Boyer, P. Calier, F. Girodon, G.L. Guery, B. Quesnel, P. Fenaux, I. Lafon, O. Beyne-Rauzy, A. Stamatoulas, F. Dreyfus, F. Boyer, B. Bonnotte, S. Raynaud, H. Cavé, A. Guercy-Bresler, C. Besson, C. Truntzer, F. Mugneret, D. Birnbaum, M. Fontenay, E.S. Solary (INSERM UMR86, Dijon, France)
0267 ISOLATED DEL 20Q DEFINES A SUBGROUP OF MDS PATIENTS WITH LOWER BLAST COUNTS AND MORE FREQUENT THROMBOCYTOPENIA
T. Braun, S. De Botton, K. Guenda, G. Leroux, A.L. Taksin, S. Park, O. Beyne-Rauzy, S. Chevret, M. Fontenay, B. Cassinat, A. Lazareth, C. Terré, N. Vey, A. Guerci, F. Dreyfus, D. Bordessoule, A. Stamatoullas, S. Castaigne, V. Eclache, P. Fenaux, L. Adès (Groupe Francophone des Myelodysplasies (GFM), Bobigny, France)

ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA - BIOLOGY I

0268

MODULATION OF MIR-449A EXPRESSION DECREASES CELL VIABILITY, INCREASES APOPTOSIS AND INDUCES DIFFERENTIATION IN EVI1 DEREGULATED LEUKEMIA CELLS
A. De Weer, B. Poppe, P. Mestdagh, K. De Preter, P. Van Vlierberghe, N. Van Roy, M. Jeison, B. Cauwelier, B. Verhasselt, J. Philippé, L. Noens, H.-A. Poirel, P. Vandenberghe, F. Lambert, A. De Paepe, N. Dastugue, J. Vandesompele, F. Speleman (Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium)

0269

RESTORING OF FOXO3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ACTIVITY BY CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCES OF A QUIESCENT STATUS OF LEUKAEMIC PROGENITOR CELLS IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKAEMIA
D. Cilloni, C. Panuzzo, E. Greco, F. Arruga, F. Messa, M. Pradotto, E. Bracco, E. Messa, I. Iacobucci, C. Maffè, S. Carturan, M. Pautasso, G. Martinelli, G. Saglio (University of Turin, Turin, Italy)

0270

PREVALENCE OF TET2 MUTATIONS IN DE NOVO ACUTE MYELOID LEUKAEMIA (AML)
O. Nibourel, O. Kosmider, M. Cheok, A. Renneville, N. Philippe, H. Dombret, F. Dreyfus, B. Quesnel, S. Geffroy, S. Quentin, C. Roumier, W. Vainchenker, O.A. Bernard, J. Soulier, M. Fontenay, C. Preudhomme (Lille Hospital, Lille, France)

0271

IDENTIFICATION OF FREQUENT GENOMIC ABNORMALITIES IN ADULT ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA (AML) PATIENTS USING SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM (SNP) ARRAYS
I. Iacobucci, E. Ottaviani, N. Testoni, F. Salmi, A. Lonetti, C. Papayannidis, A. Ferrari, S. Paolini, A. Astolfi, C. Baldazzi, P.P. Piccaluga, A. Candoni, D. Cilloni, F. Messa, F. Arruga, D. Russo, F. Lo Coco, F. Pane, G. Saglio, M. Baccarani, G. Martinelli (Department of Hematology/Oncology“Seràgnoli”, Bologna, Italy)

0272 THE PROGNOSTIC ROLE OF C-FLIP IN AML
P. McLornan, M.F. McMullin, K.I. Mills, R.K. Hills, A. Gilkes, A.K. Burnett, P. Johnston, D.B. Longley (Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Belfast, Northern Ireland)
0273 SPECIFIC PATTERNS OF GLOBAL HDAC1 DYSLOCALIZATION IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA
L. Tickenbrock, H.U. Klein, C. Trento, A. Hascher, S. Göllner, N. Bäumer, R. Kuss, S. Agrawal-Singh, G. Bug, H.U. Serve, C. Thiede, G. Ehninger, U. Zur Stadt, M. McClelland, Y. Wang, A. Becker, S. Koschmieder, W.E. Berdel, M. Dugas, C. Müller-Tidow (University of Münster, Münster, Germany)
0274 GENE OVEREXPRESSION AND PROTEIN DELOCALIZATION OF PROTEINASE (PR3) MAY INCREASE CHEMOSENSITIVITY IN BLAST CELLS FROM CORE BINDING FACTOR LEUKEMIA PATIENTS
D. Cilloni, S. Carturan, C. Maffè, M. Pautasso, F. Arruga, F. Messa, M. Pradotto, P. Fornaciari, I. Iacobucci, G. Martinelli, E. Messa, E. Bracco, G. Saglio (University of Turin, Turin, Italy)
0275 PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE BY REAL-TIME QUANTITATIVE PCR IN AML WITH CBFB - MYH11 REARRANGEMENT : THE FRENCH EXPERIENCE
R. Guièze, A. Renneville, J.M. Cayuela, R. Ben Abdelali, N. Boissel, S. De Botton, M.T. Rubio, F. Mazingue, E.A. Macintyre, F. Sigaux, P. Fenaux, H. Dombret, C. Preudhomme (Service d'Hématologie Clinique Adulte et de Thérapie Cellulaire, Clermont-Ferrand, France)
0276 PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE MONITORING USING NPM1 MUTATION IN AML
R.I. Itzykson, N. Boissel, P. Fenaux, B. Quesnel, J. Fernandes, S. Castaigne, J.V. Malfuson, S. Nguyen, C. Curtillet, M. Beaumont, J.P. Marolleau, Y. Perel, D. Caillot, Y. Bertrand, S. Glaisner, C. Pautas, C. Preudhomme, A. Renneville(CHRU Lille, Lille, France)
0277 THE AMP-KINASE AGONIST METFORMIN HAS TUMOR SUPPRESSOR ACTIVITY IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA
A.S. Green, L. Willems, N. Chapuis, V. Bardet, S. Park, M. Foretz, B. Viollet, N. Dedhin, N. Azar, N. Ifrah, F. Dreyfus, P. Mayeux, C. Lacombe, D. Bouscary, J. Tamburini (Institut Cochin, Paris, France)
0278 SUPPRESSOR OF CYTOKINE SIGNALING (SOCS1) IS INDUCED BY FLT3-ITD IN HEMATOPOIETIC STEM AND PROGENITOR CELLS AND COOPERATES IN LEUKEMOGENESIS
H. Brandts, P. Kumar Reddy Nagaruri Gonchi, B. August, H. Serve (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany)
0279 A SINGLE 8-COLOR FLOW-CYTOMETRIC IMMUNOSTAINING ALLOWS DELINEATION OF BOTH TYPICAL MYELOID AND LYMPHOID ACUTE LEUKEMIA AND UNDIFFERENCIATED/IMMATURE ACUTE LEUKEMIA (ON BEHALF OF THE EUROFLOW CONSORTIUM)
L.L. Lhermitte, M. Bruggemann, V. Asnafi, Q. Lecrevisse, L. Sedek, S. Böttcher, E. Mejstrikova, T. Kalina, P. Lucio, A. Mendonça, J. Flores, V.H.J. van der Velden, J. te Marvelde, M. Cullen, S.J. Richard, T. Szczepanski, E. Macintyre, E.S. da Costa1, J.J.M van Dongen, A. Orfao (Paris V, APHP, Hopital Necker, Paris, France)
0280 EXPRESSION, FUNCTION AND REGULATION OF AUTOTAXIN, A RELEVANT MOTILITY AND SURVIVAL FACTOR, IN FLT3-ITD POSITIVE ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA AND PRIMARY HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS
C.O. Ortlepp, C. Steudel, S. Koch, A. Jacobi, M. Ryser, S. Brenner, M. Bornhäuser, G. Ehninger, C. Thiede (University Hospital Dresden, Dresden, Germany)
0281 A MOLECUALR CIRCUITRY COMPRISING MICRORNA-22, C/EBPA AND E2F1 IN GRANULOPOIESIS AND IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA
A. Pulikkan, V. Dengler, P.S. Peramangalam, A. Peerzada, C. Muller Tidow, S.K. Bohlander, D.G. Tenen, G. Behre (Landeszentrum fur Zell und Genetherapie, Halle, Germany)
0282 IMMUNOPHENOTYPIC CHARACTERIZATION OF CD34+/CD38- AML PROGENITOR CELLS AND THEIR RESPONSE TO VARIOUS DRUGS
H. Herrmann, C. Baumgartner, W.R. Sperr, S. Holmes, P. Valent (Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
0283 RETROVIRAL INTEGRATION MUTAGENESIS IN MICE AS A PLATFORM FOR IDENTIFICATION OF CRITICAL TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENES IN HUMAN MYELOID DISORDERS
R. Beekman, M. Valkhof, E. Taskesen, S.J. Erkeland, I.P. Touw (ErasmusMC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA - BIOLOGY II

0284

THE FAVORABLE IMPACT OF CEBPA MUTATIONS IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA (AML) IS ONLY OBSERVED IN THE ABSENCE OF ASSOCIATED CYTOGENETIC ABNORMALITIES AND FLT3 INTERNAL DUPLICATION (FLT3-ITD) (FOR THE ACUTE LEUKEMIA FRENCH ASSOCIATION ALFA GROUP)
O. Nibourel, A. Renneville, N. Boissel, C. Roumier, S. Geffroy, J. De Vos, S. Castaigne, X. Thomas, C. Preudhomme, H. Dombret (Lille Hospital, Lille, France)

0285

DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION OF NATURAL CYTOTOXICITY RECEPTORS (NCRS) IN CD56-POSITIVE ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIAS
S. Fuhrmann, R. Schabath, D. Schöndube, C. Romagnani, W.D. Ludwig, L. Karawajew, R. Ratei (Helios-Klinikum Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Germany)

0286

COOPERATING MUTATIONS IN DE NOVO AML WITH MLLPARTIAL TANDEM DUPLICATION AT DIAGNOSIS AND RELAPSE
T.-L. Lin, D.-C. Liang, C.-F. Huang, M.-C. Kuo, Y.-S. Shih, C.-L. Lai, L.-Y. Shih (Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan)

0287

NUP98 FUSION PROTEINS. NEW INSIGHTS INTO SUB-CELLULAR LOCALIZATION AND INTERACTION WITH NUCLEO-CYTOPLASMIC TRAFFIC ELEMENTS
P. Gorello, R. Mannucci, L. Brandimarte, R. La Starza, D. Jankovic, D. Beacci, M.F. Martelli, M. Fornerod, J. Schwaller, I. Nicoletti, C. Mecucci (Hematology, Perugia, Italy)

0288 FLOW CYTOMETRIC PROTEIN EXPRESSION PROFILING AS A POTENTIAL APPROACH FOR DEVELOPING AN ALTERNATIVE CLASSIFICATION OF ACUTE MYELOID LEUKAEMIA
A.R. Hussein, S.J. Richards (Universiti sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, Malaysia)
0289 GENOME PROFILING OF NORMAL KARYOTYPE AML WITH HIGH DENSITY ARRAY COMPARATIVE GENOME HYBRIDISATION
A. Chanalaris, C. Grace, R. Gale, D. Linch, E.P. Nacheva (UCL Medical School, London, United Kingdom)
0290 BOTH SEPT2 AND MLL ARE DOWN-REGULATED IN MLL-SEPT2 THERAPY-RELATED MYELOID NEOPLASIA
N. Cerveira, J. Santos, S. Bizarro, V. Costa, F. Ribeiro, S. Lisboa, C. Correia, L. Torres, J. Vieira, S. Snidjer, J. Mariz, L. Norton, C. Mellink, A. Buijs, M. Teixeira (Portuguese Oncology Institute, Porto, Portugal)
0291 METHYLATION ANALYSIS OF THE SNRPN AND MEG3 IMPRINTED GENES IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA PATIENTS
L. Benetatos, A. Dasoula, E. Hatzimichael, G. Dranitsaris, M. Voukelatou, S. Tsiara, I. Georgiou, K. Bourantas (University Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece)
0292 GENE EXPRESSION PROFILE MIGHT PREDICT PROGNOSIS IN PATIENTS WITH INTERMEDIATE-RISK ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA (AML) LACKING NPM1 AND FLT3 MUTATIONS
M. Camos, S.G. Kalko, M. Torrebadell, M. Pratcorona, M. Rozman, M. Díaz-Beyá, D. Costa, A. Carrió, E. Campo, E. Montserrat, J. Esteve (Hospital Clinic. Hematology Lab, Hospital Sant Joan de Deu., Barcelona, Spain)
0293 SURVIVIN GENE EXPRESSION SIGNIFICANTLY CORRELATES WITH CLINICAL OUTCOME IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA IN ASSOCIATION WITH MDR1/P-GLYCOPROTEIN OVEREXPRESSION AND FLT3-ITD
G. Balatzenko, A. Stoimenov, B. Spassov, V. Nikolova, M. Guenova, S. Konstantinov (National Haematological Hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria)
0294 GENE TARGETS OF ETV6-NTRK3 FUSION
A.F. MacLeod, S. Chen, B. Schneider, S. Nagel, M. Kaufmann, H.G. Drexler (DSMZ, Brainschweig, Germany)
0295 A HYPOTHETICAL-MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA PATHOGENESIS
A.M. Cucuianu, R. Precup (”Ion Chiricuta” Cancer Institute, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
0296 PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF IMMUNOPHENOTYPE IN AML PATIENTS WITH NPM1 MUTATION
M.T. Gomez Casares, A. Lemes, N. Navarro, J.D. González San Miguel, S. Fumero, J.M. Bosch, P. Martín, M.D. Fiuza, C.E. López, H. Luzardo, S. De la Iglesia, T. Molero (Hospital U. de GC Dr. Negrín, Las Palmas de GC, Spain)
0297 FLT3 ANTIGEN EXPRESSION IN ACUTE LEUKAEMIA USING FLOW CYTOMETRY
S. Hassan, M. Leung, C. Ridler, C. Stephens, M. Macey, M. Jenner, S. Agrawal (St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, United Kingdom)
0298 QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF WT1 EXPRESSION: A USEFUL TOOL FOR MONITORING MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE IN ACUTE LEUKEMIA PATIENTS
F. Salmi, E. Ottaviani, C. Papayannidis, S. Paolini, B. Lama, D. Cilloni, F. Messa, N. Testoni, N. Vianelli, C. Finelli, I. Iacobucci, M. Baccarani, G. Martinelli, A. Curti (Department of Hematology/Oncology “Seràgnoli”, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
0299 THE DELETION OF THE PROLINE-RICH REGION OF HOXB4 IS ASSOCIATED WITH MYELOID LEUKEMIA IN A MOUSE MODEL
M. Cusan, A.J. Deshpande, V. Vijay, W. Wolfgang, L. Quintanilla-Martinez,
K. Keith, C. Christian, M. Michaela (Klinikum Grosshadern, Munich, Germany)

ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA – CLINICAL I

0300

CONTINUOUS SEQUENTIAL INFUSION OF FLUDARABINE AND CYTARABINE FOR ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA (AML) SECONDARY TO MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME (MDS)
F. Ferrara, S. Palmieri, G. Mele, T. Izzo, C. Criscuolo, M. Pedata, C. Riccardi, B. Pocali, C. Califano, A.M. D'Arco (Division of Hematology and Stem Cell Transplantation Unit, Cardarelli Hospital, Naples, Italy)

0301

INFLUENCE OF HIGH EXPRESSION OF SMAC/DIABLO PROTEIN ON CLINICAL OUTCOME IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA PATIENTS
A. Pluta, A. Wrzesien-Kus, B. Cebula, A. Wolska, A. Szmigielska-Kaplon, T. Robak, P. Smolewski, A. Wierzbowska (Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland)

0303

LONG-TERM MOLECULAR COMPLETE REMISSION WITH PULSED ATRA AS SINGLE AGENT IN PML-RAR-ALPHA-POSITIVE ACUTE PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA
E. Vigna, P. Piccaluga, E. Ottaviani, C. Laterza, M. Malagola, M. Rondoni, S. Paolini, R. Morelli, C. Finelli, F. Morabito, G. Visani, M. Baccarani, G. Martinelli (U.O. Ematologia Ospedale Civile dell’Annunziata di Cosenza, Cosenza, Italy)

0304

A LUMINESCENT WHOLE CELL BACTERIAL BIOSENSOR FOR RAPID PRE-SCREENING OF CHEMOTHERAPY EFFICACY
E. Anderson, H.M. Alloush, M.A. Smith, J.G. Smith, V. Salisbury (Universityof the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom)

0305 INDUCTION INTENSIFIED REGIMENS INCLUDING FLUDARABINE OR GEMTUZUMAB-OZOGAMICIN FOR ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA PATIENTS: COMPARISON BY RESPONSE AND FOLLOW-UP
C. Papayannidis, C. Candoni, P. Paolini, E. Ottaviani, I. Iacobucci, M. Rondoni, M. Malagola, P.P. Piccaluga, R. Fanin, G. Visani, M. Baccarani, D. Russo, G. Martinelli (Department of Hematology/ Oncology “Seràgnoli”, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
0306 PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF FLT3/ITD MUTATION AND ABCB1 GENE POLYMORPHISMS IN CORE BINDING FACTOR (CBF)-ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA (AML)
Y.K. Kim, H.N. Kim, I.K. Lee, S.M. Bang, H.J. Kim, D.Y. Jo, J.H. Won, J.Y. Kwak, M.R. Park, J.S. Ahn, D.H. Yang, J.J. Lee, H.J. Kim (Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, South-Korea)
0307 LAROMUSTINE INDUCES REMISSIONS IN ELDERLY POOR RISK AML PATIENTS WITH ADVERSE CYTOGENETICS AND DEMONSTRATES SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVED SURVIVAL IN A HISTORICAL COMPARISON WITH PATIENTS TREATED IN THE UK NCRI AML14 TRIAL
K. Hills, S. O'Brien, G. Schiller, V. Karsten, F. Giles, A. Burnett (Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, United Kingdom)
0308 RASGRP1/APTX RATIO IS A STRONG BIOMARKER WHICH PREDICTS RESPONSE TO THERAPY WITH TIPIFARNIB PLUS BORTEZOMIB IN ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA (AML)
C. Papayannidis, P. Paolini, E. Ottaviani, I. Iacobucci, F. Salmi, B. Lama, A. Curti, S. Parisi, D. Cilloni, G. Saglio, C. Candoni, F. Morabito, M. Raponi, M. Baccarani, G. Martinelli (Department of Hematology/ Oncology “Seràgnoli”, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
0309 BODY MASS INDEX IS AN INDEPENDENT PREDICTOR OF DIFFERENTIATION SYNDROME IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA
R. Jeddi, H. Ghédira, S. Mnif, R. Ben Amor, L. Aissaoui, K. Kacem, W. Bouteraâ, R. Ben Lakhal, A. Saad, H. Ben Abid, Z. Belhadjali, B. Meddeb, Z. Belhadjali, Z. Belhadjali (Aziza Othmana University Hospital, Tunis, Tunisia)
0310 A PHASE I STUDY WITH CP-4055 AND IDARUBICIN IN PATIENTS WITH REFRACTORY/RELAPSED AML
S. O’Brien, D. Rizzieri, S. Padmanabhan, F. Ravandi, T.F. Jacobsen, K. Staudacher, B.I. Nilsson, F.J. Giles (University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA)
0311 CNS MANIFESTION IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA SCHEDULED FOR ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
M. Bommer, S. Von Harsdorf, D. Bunjes, H. Doehner, M. Ringhoffer (University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany)
0312 FLAIE (FLUDARABINE, CYTARABINE, IDARUBICIN AND ETOPOSIDE) AS INDUCTION CHEMOTHERAPY OF ADULT ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA. A PILOT STUDY REPORT
A. Candoni, E. Simeone, A. Michelutti, D. Damiani, D. Russo, R. Fanin (Division of Hematology, Udine, Italy)
0313 INDUCTION THERAPY WITH '3+7' CHEMOTHERAPY PLUS ATRA FOLLOWED BY CONSOLIDATIONS WITH THREE COURSES OF IDARUBICIN ALONE AND MAINTENANCE THERAPY WITH ATRA IN NEWLY DIAGNOSED ACUTE PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (APL) HAS AN EXCELLENT LEUKEMIA-FREE SURVIVAL BUT MINIMAL TOXICITY IN LOW AND INTERMEDIATE RISK GROU
Y.C. Mun, M.Y. Choi, E.K. Cho, J.H. Lee, D.Y. Jo, I.H. Kim, S.M. Bang, S.S. Yoon, S.Y. Park, B.K. Kim, H. Kim, Y.J. Min, J.H. Park, J.J. Seo, H.N. Moon, M.H. Lee, C.S. Kim, W.S. Lee, Y.D. Joo, S.Y. Chung, D.Y. Oh, D.Y. Zang, K.H. Lee, M.S. Hyun, H.S. Song, H.S. Kim, S.H. Kim, H.C. Kwon, H.J. Kim, M.J. Ahn, J.S. Ahn (Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, Seoul, South-Korea)
0314 MORPHOLOGIC AND MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF LEUKEMIC TUMORS IN THE BREAST: IMPLICATIONS FOR RESISTANCE TO CHEMOTHERAPY
I. Cunningham, Cordon-Cardo's (Columbia University, New York, USA)

CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA - BIOLOGY

0315

FINAL RESULTS: RESPONSE PREDICTION IN IMATINIB-TREATED CML BY EXPRESSION PROFILING
S. Schmidt (Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria)

0316

CD34+ OBTAINED FROM HIGH SOKAL RISK CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA (CML) PATIENTS (PTS) EXPRESSES GENE PROFILES (GEP) SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT FROM CD34+ OBTAINED FROM LOW AND INTERMEDIATE SOKAL RISK PATIENTS
S. Durante, C. Terragna, A. Astolfi, F. Palandri, F. Castagnetti, G. Rosti, N. Testoni, S. Luatti, I. Iacobucci, T. Kalebic, S. Soverini, M. Amabile, A. Poerio, M. Baccarani, G. Martinelli (Inst. of Hemat. Med. Oncol. Seràgnoli, Bologna, Italy)

0317

EVALUATION OF THE PROTEASOMAL EFFECTS OF TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITORS AND BORTEZOMIB IN CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKAEMIA
M. McCloskey, M.F. McMullin, B. Walker, A.E. Irvine (Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland)

0318

DELETIONS OF THE DERIVATIVE CHROMOSOME 9 DO NOT INFLUENCE THE OUTCOME OF CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA IN EARLY CHRONIC PHASE TREATED WITH IMATINIB MESYLATE: A GIMEMA CML WP ANALYSIS OF 521 CONSECUTIVE PATIENTS
F. Castagnetti, N. Testoni, S. Luatti, G. Marzocchi, G. Gugliotta, F. Palandri, M. Amabile, S. Soverini, M. Mancini, S. Kerim, E. Giuliano, G. Specchia, A. Cuneo, E. Abruzzese, G. Martinelli, F. Pane, M. Baccarani, G. Rosti (Dept. of Hematology and Oncological Sciences, Bologna, Italy)

0319 PRESENCE OF BCR-ABL POSITIVE CELLS AND DIAGNOSIS OF CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA (CML) IN IMMUNE SUPPRESSED ORGAN TRANSPLANT (SOT) RECIPIENTS
P. le Coutre, P. Reinke, R. Neuhaus, R. Trappe, F. Ringel, M. Lalancette, P. Hemmati, B. Dörken, P. Daniel (Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
0320 THE ROLE OF THE FANCONI ANEMIA D (FANCD2) PROTEIN IN BCR/ABL-MEDIATED LEUKEMOGENESIS
T. Stoklosa, M. Koptyra, G. Hoser, E. Glodkowska, I. Seferynska, T. Skorski (The Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland)
0321 BCR-ABL ONCOPROTEIN MODULATES MIRNA INVOLVED IN APOPTOSIS REGULATION
A.F. Ferreira, W.A. Silva-Jr, I.T. Silva, R. Azevedo, R. Tognon, M.A. Zanichelli, N. Hamerschlak, G.P. Amarante-Mendes, D.T. Covas, S. Kashima, A.M. Souza, F.A. Castro (University of São Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil)
0322 BOSUTINIB (SKI-606) COOPERATES WITH DASATINIB IN COUNTERACTING GROWTH AND VIABILITY OF CML CELLS CARRYING THE T315I MUTANT OF BCR/ABL
K.V. Gleixner, L.L. Remsing Rix, U. Rix, R.A. Meyer, H. Herrmann, K. Schuch, W.F. Pickl, C. Sillaber, M. Augustin, J.H. Till, G. Superti-Furga, P. Valent (Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
0323 EFFECT OF IMATINIB MESYLATE ON SERUM SOLUBLE VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH RECEPTOR-R2 AND MICROVESSEL DENSITY IN BCR-ABL POSITIVE CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA
S.U. Mogalluru, P. Pati, S. Saxena (Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai, India)
0324 EXPRESSION LEVELS OF MIR-150 AND TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS PU., EGR2 INVERSELY CORRELATE WITH MYB AND MYCN IN CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA
T. Lopotova, K. Vlcanova, T. Stopka, J. Moravcova, H. Klamova, K. Machova Polakova (Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague, Czech Republic)
0325 PREDICTED COMBINATORIAL APPROACHES FOR OVERCOMING INTRINSIC IMATINIB RESISTANCE IN CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA IDENTIFY POTENTIAL TARGETS FOR INTERVENTION
S. Brems, W. Seifarth, D.B. Jackson, M. Giehl, A. Fabarius, M.A. Stein, R. Hehlmann, A. Hochhaus, O. Frank (Universitätsmedizin Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany)
0326 CCN, A NOVEL PRO-APOPTOTIC FACTOR FOR CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKAEMIA
M.R. McCallum, W Lu, S Price, N Planque, B Perbal, N Lazar, A.E Irvine (Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom)
0327 3-DEAZANEPLANOCIN A (DZNEP) ACTIVITY AGAINST CD34+ LEUKAEMIA STEM CELLS
S. Myssina, G. Jørgensen, Y. Yu, T. Holyoake (University of Gasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom)
0328 A SET OF NEW GENES THAT MAY BE INVOLVED WITH THE PROCESS OF MODIFICATION OF GRANULOCYTIC CELLS IN CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA (CML)
C. Couto Mascarenhas (University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil)
0329 HETEROGENEOUS MECHANISMS AT THE BASIS OF 5'BCR/3'ABL FUSION GENE GENERATION IN CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA
F. Albano, L. Anelli, A. Zagaria, N. Coccaro, A. Pannunzio, A. Russo Rossi, L. Vicari, F. Manodoro, V. Liso, M. Rocchi, G. Specchia (Department of Hematology, Bari, Italy)
0330 EVALUATION OF DSBS REPAIR IN IMATINIB RESISTANT CELL LINES
R. Dinis, L. Gromicho, S. Martins, L. Laires, A. Rueff, S. Rodrigues (Centro de Investigação em Genética Molecular Humana (CIGMH) - FCM/UNL, Lisbon, Portugal)
0331 E T315I MUTATION CONFERS RESISTANCE AGAINST SMALL MOLECULES BY RESTORING THE ABL-KINASE ACTIVITY ACCOMPANIED BY TRANSPHOSPHORYLATION OF ENDOGENOUS BCR, EVEN IN LOSS-OF-FUNCTION MUTANTS OF BCR/ABL
M. Ruthardt, M. Mian, M. Schüll, Z. Zhao, C. Oancea, T. Beissert, H. Serve, O.G. Ottmann, M. Ruthardt (Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany)
0332 SURVIVIN EXPRESSION IN CHRONIC MYELOGENOUS LEUKEMIA PATIENTS WITH IMATINIBE MESYLATE TREATMENT
M. Mantzourani, D. Georgopoulou, M. Gravia, A. Polonyfi, G. Pangalis, G. Vaiopoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Goudi, Athens, Greece)
0333 AN APPROACH TO OVERCOME BCR-ABL INDEPENDENT STI571 RESISTANCE IN CML
E. Rabizadeh, A. Aviram, I. Belyaeva, V. Merkin, N. Avissar, M. Shaklai, Y. Zimra (Beilinson, Petah Tikva, Israel)

CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA AND RELATED DISORDERS - BIOLOGY I

0335

DELTA EX, THE NOVEL TRANSACTIVATION-DEFECTIVE SPLICING VARIANT OF TP, IS DIFFERENTIALLY EXPRESSED IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA AND CONFERS ACCENTED PROLIFERATIVE PHENOTYPE IN VITRO
S. Pekova, O. Mazal, R. Cmejla, T. Kozak, L. Smolej, M. Spacek, S. Pekova (Na Homolce Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic)

0336

THE TUMOR SUPPRESSOR MECHANISM IN 13Q14.3 INVOLVES MONOALLELIC EXPRESSION, NON-CODING RNA GENES AND EPIMUTATIONS AFFECTING THE MAJORITY OF CLL PATIENTS
D. Mertens (University Ulm, Ulm, Germany)

0337

INTEGRATIVE HIGH-RESOLUTION MICROARRAYS APPROACH IN B-CELL CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA REVEALS THE PRESENCE OF MOLECULARLY DISTINCT SUBGROUPS IN PATIENTS WITH 13Q DELETION
L. Mosca, L. Agnelli, S. Fabris, G. Cutrona, S. Matis, M. Lionetti, K. Todoerti, A. Andronache, M. Gentile, M. Spriano, V. Callea, G. Festini, S. Molica, G. Lambertenghi Deliliers, F. Morabito, M. Ferrarini, A. Neri (Università di Milano e Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico di Milano, Milan, Italy)

0338

PROTEIN KINASE C INHIBITION WITH ENZASTAURIN PRIMES CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA CELLS FOR DEATH THROUGH DOWN-REGULATION OF MCL-1
L. Ysebaert, C. Liffraud, S. Kheiralah, A. Blanc, E. Gross, K. Benhadji, A. Quillet-Mary, G. Laurent (INSERM U5, Toulouse, France)

0339 ROLE OF CD38 IN HOMING OF CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (CLL) CELLS
T. Vaisitti, S. Aydin, D. Rossi, L. Bergui, G. D'Arena, L. Bonello, G. Chiorino, G. Gaidano, F. Malavasi, S. Deaglio (Lab of Immunogenetics, Turin, Italy)
0340 THE FREQUENCY OF CIRCULATING CLL-LIKE B-CELL CLONES IN OTHERWISE HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASES USING A HIGH-SENSITIVE MULTICOLOR FLOW CYTOMETRY APPROACH
W. Nieto, M. Almeida, A. Romero, C. Teodosio, A. Lopez, A. Henriques, M.L. Sanchez, M. Jara, A. Rasillo, P. Fernandez-Navarro, T. Vega, A. Orfao (University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain)
0341 THE LOCAL MICROENVIRONMENT PLAYS A DIFFERENT ROLE IN THE SURVIVAL OF TUMOR CELLS IN CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA WITH MUTATED AND UNMUTATED IMMUNOGLOBULIN(IG) VH GENES
M. Coscia, F. Pantaleoni, C. Riganti, M. Rigoni, S. Peola, C. Vitale, D. Drandi, M. Ladetto, A. Bosia, M. Boccadoro, M. Massaia (Divisione di Ematologia dell'Università di Torino, Turin, Italy)
0342 GENOME-WIDE DNA COPY NUMBER ANALYSIS BY SNP ARRAYS OF B-CELL CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA REVEALS THE PRESENCE OF NOVEL MOLECULAR LESIONS
L. Mosca, L. Agnelli, S. Fabris, G. Cutrona, S. Matis, M. Lionetti, K. Todoerti, A. Andronache, M. Gentile, M. Spriano, V. Callea, G. Festini, S. Molica, G. Lambertenghi Deliliers, F. Morabito, M. Ferrarini, A. Neri (Università di Milano e Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico di Milano, Milan, Italy)
0343 THE SYK INHIBITOR R406 BLOCKS BCR SIGNALING, CELL ADHESION AND MIGRATION, AND INDUCES APOPTOSIS IN CLL CELLS: AN EXPLANATION FOR THE CLINICAL ACTIVITY OF R406 IN CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (CLL)
J.A. Burger, M.P. Quiroga, K. Balakrishnan, V. Gandhi, A. Kurtova, W.G. Wierda, M.J. Keating (The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA)
0344 MICRORNAS EXPRESSION PATTERN IN AGGRESSIVE SUBTYPE OF CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA
M. Mraz, K. Malinova, J. Kotaskova, S. Pavlova, B. Tichy, J. Malcikova, J. Lochmanova, Y. Brychtova, M. Trbusek, J. Mayer, S. Pospisilova (Center of Molecular Biology and Gene Therapy,Dept.of Internal Med-Hematooncology, Brno, Czech Republic)
0345 IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL RECURRENT COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS BY HIGH RESOLUTION COMPARATIVE GENOME HYBRIDISATION
A.H. Schuh, S.J.L. Knight, E. SadighiAkha, T. Enver, J. Taylor (University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom)
0346 VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR (VEGF) ACTS VIA AUTO- AND PARACRINE MECHANISMS AS A CRITICAL MICROENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR FOR THE SURVIVAL OF CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (CLL) CELLS
I. Gehrke, J. Paesler, R.K. Gandhirajan, R. Razavi, M. Hallek, K.-A. Kreuzer (University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany)
0347 LUMILIXIMAB INDUCES APOPTOSIS IN DRUG RESISTANT LYMPHOMA AND LEUKEMIA CELLS
N. Pathan, S. Harris, S. Tangri, S. Hughes (Biogen Idec Inc, San Diego, USA)
0348 HIGH-RESOLUTION MICROARRAY CHARACTERIZATION OF THE 13Q14 DELETION EXTENT IN B-CELL CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA: CORRELATION WITH COPY NUMBER AND EXPRESSION LEVELS OF MIR-15A/16-1 CLUSTER
L. Mosca, M. Lionetti, S. Fabris, G. Cutrona, L. Agnelli, G. Ciceri, S. Leone, V. Polli, S. Matis, M. Gentile, M. Spriano, V. Callea, G. Festini, S. Molica, G. Lambertenghi Deliliers, F. Morabito, M. Ferrarini, A. Neri (Università di Milano e Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico di Milano, Milan, Italy)

CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA AND RELATED DISORDERS CLINICAL I

0349

MICRORNA-29C AND 223 AND THEIR PROGNOSTIC VALUE IN CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA
B. Stamatopoulos, N. Meuleman, B. Haibe-Kains, P. Saussoy, E. Van Den Neste, L. Michaux, P. Heimann, P. Martiat, D. Bron, L. Lagneaux (Institut Jules Bordet, Brussels, Belgium)

0350

PHARMACOKINETICS, SAFETY AND ANTI-TUMOR ACTIVITY OF ABT-263 IN PATIENTS WITH RELAPSED OR REFRACTORY CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (CLL)/SMALL LYMPHOCYTIC LYMPHOMA (SLL)
G. Wierda, P. Roberts, R. Brown, H. Wilson, A. O’Connor, S. Czuczman, A. Busman, H. Xiong, P. Krivoshik, H. Enschede (The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA)

0351

RESULTS OF THE PHASE II NCRI CLL206 TRIAL OF ALEMTUZUMAB IN COMBINATION WITH HIGH-DOSE METHYLPREDNISOLONE FOR HIGH-RISK (7P-) CLL
R. Pettitt, E. Matutes, C. Dearden, D. Oscier, S. Carruthers, J. Dodd, S. Dodd, R. Jones, A. Rawstrom, S. Agrawal, D. Allsup, A. Bloor, J. Blundell, S. Devereux, G. Follows, E. Heartin, S. Proctor, J. Radford, T. Hamblin, D. Catovsky, P. Hillmen (University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom)

0352

STEROTYPED B-CELL RECEPTOR AND IGHV4-39 USAGE REPRESENT INDEPENDENT RISK FACTORS OF CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA TRANSFORMATION TO RICHTER SYNDROME
D. Rossi, V. Spina, M. Cerri, S. Rasi, C. Deambrogi, L. De Paoli, L. Laurenti, R. Maffei, F. Forconi, F. Bertoni, E. Zucca, C. Agostinelli, A. Cabras, M. Lucioni, M. Martini, M. Magni, S. Deaglio, M. Ladetto, J.F. Nomdedeu, C. Besson,A. Ramponi, V. Canzonieri1, M. Paulli, R. Marasca, L.M. Larocca, A. Carbone,S. Pileri, V. Gattei, G. Gaidano (Division of Hematology, Amedeo Avogadro University, Novara, Italy)

0353 FINAL RESULTS OF ORAL FLUDARABINE WITH CONCOMITANT SUBCUTANEOUS ALEMTUZUMAB IN RELAPSED/REFRACTORY B-CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKAEMIA (B-CLL): THE FLUSALEM STUDY
A. Egle, T Melchardt, L Pleyer, I Tinhofer, A. Lang, F. Keil, J. Thaler, E. Gunsilius, M. Fridrik, R. Greil (University Hospital Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria)
0354 LARGE BUT NOT SMALL COPY-NUMBER ALTERATIONS CORRELATE TO HIGH-RISK GENOMIC ABERRATIONS AND SURVIVAL IN CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA: A HIGH-RESOLUTION GENOMIC SCREENING IN NEWLY DIAGNOSED PATIENTS
R. Gunnarsson, A. Isaksson, M. Mansouri, H. Göransson, M. Jansson, N. Cahill, M. Rasmussen, J. Staaf, J. Lundin, S. Norin, A.M. Buhl, K. Ekström Smedby, H. Hjalgrim, K. Karlsson, J. Jurlander, G. Juliusson, R. Rosenquist (Stem Cell Center, Lund, Sweden)
0355 BENDAMUSTINE VERSUS CHLORAMBUCIL IN TREATMENTNAIVE PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA: UPDATED RESULTS OF AN INTERNATIONAL PHASE III STUDY
U. Knauf, T. Lissichkov, A. Aldoud, R. Herbrecht, A. Liberati, J. Loscertales, G. Juliusson, G. Postner, L. Gercheva, S. Goranov, M. Becker, K. Hoeffken, F. Huguet, R. Foa, K. Merkle, M. Montillo (Onkologische Gemeinschaftspraxis, Frankfurt, Germany)
0356 EXPRESSION OF MUTATED IGHV3-23 GENES HAS INDEPENDENT PROGNOSTIC RELEVANCE IN CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA AND IDENTIFIES A DISEASE SUBSET WITH PECULIAR MOLECULAR AND BIOLOGICAL FEATURES
R. Bomben, M. Dal-Bo, D. Benedetti, D. Capello, F. Forconi, R. Maffei, L. Laurenti, D. Marconi, D. Rossi, F. Bertoni, M.I. Del Principe, F. Luciano, E. Sozzi, A. Zucchetto, F.M. Rossi, P. Bulian, E. Zucca, M. Degan, D.G. Efremov, R. Marasca, G. Del Poeta, G. Gaidano, V. Gattei (Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano, Italy)
0357 5-YEAR FOLLOW-UP OF HEAVILY PRETREATED PATIENTS WITH RELAPSED/REFRACTORY CLL IN PHASE 3 STUDY: SIGNIFICANT SURVIVAL BENEFIT WITH OBLIMERSEN PLUS FLUDARABINE/ CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE IN RESPONDING PATIENTS
M. O’Brien, J. Gribben, T. Cousin, K. Rai (The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA)
0358 CD49D EXPRESSION AND SHORT TELOMERE LENGTH INTERACT IN CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA AND IDENTIFY PATIENTS AT RISK OF PROGRESSION AND SHORT SURVIVAL
D. Rossi, M. Ladetto, C. Lobetti Bodoni, A. Zucchetto, F.M. Rossi, V. Gattei, G. Gaidano (Division of Hematology, Amedeo Avogadro University, Novara, Italy)
0359 UPDATE OF THE FRENCH LGL PROLIFERATION REGISTRY: REPORT OF 229 CASES
T. Lamy, B. Bareau, J. Rey, M. Hamidou, J. Donadieu, O. Reman, N. Schleinitz, O. Tournilhac (University Hospital, Rennes, France)
0360 MONOCLONAL B-CELL LYMPHOCYTOSIS (MBL) IN FIRST-DEGREE RELATIVES OF PATIENTS WITH SPORADIC (NON-FAMILIAL) CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA
D. Matos, S.J. Ismael, C.A. Scrideli, F.O. Morato, R.P. Falcão (University Hospital of Ribeirão Preto (USP), Ribeirao Preto-SP, Brazil)
0361 NCRN CLL207 STUDY OF ALEMTUZUMAB CONSOLIDATION IN CLL: REPORT OF THE PLANNED INTERIM ANALYSIS
P. Hillmen, D.R. Cohen, C. Dearden, G. Follows, W.M. Gregory, A.F. Smith, E.J. Skinner, A. Critchley, A.C. Rawstron, C.D. Fegan, H. McCarthy, C.F. Pocock (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom)
0362 NEW PROGNOSTIC MARKERS OF CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (CLL) IN THE EVERYDAY HEMATOLOGICAL PRACTICE. A MULTICENTER ANALYSIS
M. Doubek, E. Cmunt, J. Schwarz, M. Brejcha, Z. Pospisil, P. Kozmon, Y. Brychtova, S. Pospisilova, P. Cetkovsky, M. Trneny, J. Mayer (University Hospital, Brno, Czech Republic)
0363 LENALIDOMIDE INDUCED UPREGULATION OF CD80 ON LEUKEMIC CELLS CORRELATES WITH T-CELL ACTIVATION, THE RAPID ONSET OF A CYTOKINE RELEASE SYNDROME AND CLEARANCE OF TUMOR CELLS IN CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA
A. Wiestner, N Njuguna, B Vire, P McCoy Jr, W Wilson, S Pittaluga, G Aue (HB, NHLBI, NIH, Bethesda, USA)
0364 STANDARD AND REDUCED INTENSITY ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATIONS (HSCT) FROM RELATED AND UNRELATED DONORS FOR CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (CLL). A LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP (0 YEARS) STUDY FROM THE EBMT REGISTRY
M. Michallet, Q.-H. Le, P. Dreger, M. Sobh, D. Niederwieser, V. Koza, T. Ruutu, N. Russell, L. Verdonck, D. Milligan, N. Dhedin, T. Kozak, M. Boogaerts, J. Finke, A. van Biezen, R. Brand, T. de Witte (Edouard Herriot Hospital, Lyon, France)
0365 INCREASED EXPRESSION OF MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN-1 ALPHA ON TREPHINE BIOPSIES CORRELATES WITH ADVANCED MYELOMA, EXTENSIVE BONE DISEASE AND ELEVATED MICROVESSEL DENSITY IN NEWLY DIAGNOSED PATIENTS WITH MULTIPLE MYELOMA
E. Terpos, A. Tasidou, M. Roussou, E. Kastritis, M. Migkou, D. Christoulas, M. Gavriatopoulou, F. Zagouri, C. Matsouka, T. Papadaki, M.A. Dimopoulos (University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece)
0366 SECRETOME ANALYSES OF PRIMARY BONE MARROW FIBROBLASTS ISOLATED FROM MGUS AND MULTIPLE MYELOMA PATIENTS SUPPORT THE ROLE OF THE MICROENVIRONMENT FOR MYELOMA PATHOGENESIS
J. Drach, A. Slany, T. Mohr, J. Griss, J. Ackermann, C. Zielinski, C. Gerner (Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
0367 MICRORNAS AS KEY REGULATORS OF MULTIPLE MYELOMA CELL GROWTH
M. Roccaro, A. Sacco, A.K. Azab, X. Leleu, B.D. Thompson, F. Azab, X. Jia, H.T. Ngo, J. Runnels, M.R. Melhem, K.C. Anderson, T. Witzig, I.M. Ghobrial (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA)
0368 LENALIDOMIDE INDUCED P27 KIP1-ASSOCIATED GROWTH ARREST IN MYELOMA CELLS THROUGH DOWN-REGULATION OF BOTH C-MYC AND SCFSKP2 UBIQUITIN LIGASE
M. Amiot, S. Bonnaud, S. Maiga, G. Descamps, C. Pellat-Deceunynck, R. Bataille (Inserm U8, Nantes, France)
0369 THE MTOR PATHWAY ACTIVATION PREDICTS A SHORT TIME TO PROGRESSION AND OVERALL SURVIVAL IN RELAPSED MULTIPLE MYELOMA PATIENTS
T. Guglielmelli, R. Merlini, E. Giugliano, G. Saglio, V. Brunetto, S. Cappia, E. Bacillo, A. Berruti, F. Gay, M. Papotti, A. Palumbo (AUO San Luigi Gonzaga, Orbassano, Italy)
0370 ANTIBODY RESPONSES TO CANCER-TESTIS ANTIGENS IN MULTIPLE MYELOMA PATIENTS
M.D. Kobold, Y. Cao, S. Tams, B.M. Bartels, C. Eberhardt, M. Ristic, T. Lütkens, C. Pabst, C. Bokemeyer, N. Kröger, D. Atanackovic (University medical center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany)
0371 A NOVEL FISH-BASED NORMALIZATION PROCEDURE FOR WHOLE GENOME MICROARRAYS DETECTING ACCURATE LOCAL COPY NUMBERS: APPLICATION TO MULTIPLE MYELOMA
L. Agnelli, L. Mosca, A. Andronache, S. Fabris, M. Lionetti, I. Kwee, K. Todoerti, D. Verdelli, L. Nobili, V. Polli, C. Battaglia, F. Bertoni, G. Lambertenghi Deliliers, A. Neri (University of Milan and Fondazione IRCCS Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy)
0373 CARFILZOMIB: A SELECTIVE INHIBITOR OF THE CHYMOTRYPSINLIKE ACTIVITY OF THE CONSTITUTIVE PROTESOME AND IMMUNOPROTEASOME HAS ANTI-TUMOR ACTIVITY ON MULTIPLE MYELOMA, LYMPHOMA AND LEUKEMIA CELLS WITH MINIMAL EFFECTS ON NORMAL CELLS
F. Parlati, S. Lee, M. Aujay, K. Levitsky, J. Lorens, Y. Lu, D. Micklem, P. Rurrs, K. Shenk, C. Sun, E. Suzuki, C. Sylvain, M.K. Bennett (Proteolix, South San Francisco, USA)
0374 CORRELATIONS BETWEEN ANGIOGENESIS, MIP-1 ALPHA EXPRESSION BY MALIGNANT CELLS AND MACROPHAGE COUNTS IN WALDENSTROM'S MACROGLOBULINEMIA: IMPLICATIONS INTO THE BIOLOGY OF THE DISEASE
E. Terpos, A. Tasidou, E. Eleutherakis-Papaiakovou, D. Christoulas, M. Gavriatopoulou, M. Migkou, E. Kastritis, T. Papadaki, M.A. Dimopoulos (University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece)
0375 ABNORMAL SERUM FREE-LIGHT CHAIN RATIO IN PATIENTS WITH MULTIPLE MYELOMA IN LONG-LASTING COMPLETE REMISSION: STRONG ASSOCIATION WITH OLIGOCLONAL BANDS
C. Fernández de Larrea, M.T. Cibeira, M. Elena, L. Rosiñol, M. Rovira, J.J. Arostegui, X. Filella, J. Yagüe, J. Bladé (Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
0376 DASATINIB ENHANCED APOPTOSIS OF RAPAMYCIN IN MULTIPLE MYELOMA CELLS THROUGH DOWN-REGULATION OF THE MTOR PATHWAY BY ABROGATING SIGNALING VIA AKT AND ERK
T. Guglielmelli, E. Giugliano, R. Merlini, M. Pautasso, I. Defilippi, S. Mussino, V. Brunetto, E. Bracco, G. Saglio (AUO San Luigi Gonzaga, Orbassano, Italy)
0377 PTEN IS DOWN REGULATED IN MULTIPLE MYELOMA
G. Piras, M. Monne, L. Pilo, A. Calvisi, A. Uras, M. Murineddu, L. Arca, L. Arru, L. Curreli, G.C. Latte, A. Murgia, A. Gabbas (U.O. Hematology, Nuoro, Italy)
0378 DIFFUSE MRI PATTERN CORRELATES WITH INCREASED ANGIOGENESIS, EXTENSIVE BONE DISEASE AND POOR PROGNOSIS IN NEWLY-DIAGNOSED, PRIOR-UNTREATED, PATIENTS WITH MULTIPLE MYELOMA
E. Terpos, M.A. Dimopoulos, D. Christoulas, E. Kastritis, A. Koureas, M. Roussou, M. Gavriatopoulou, M. Migkou, M. Iakovaki, M. Gotzamanidou, A. Tasidou, L.A. Moulopoulos (University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece) E. Terpos, M.A. Dimopoulos, D. Christoulas, E. Kastritis, A. Koureas, M. Roussou, M. Gavriatopoulou, M. Migkou, M. Iakovaki, M. Gotzamanidou, A. Tasidou, L.A. Moulopoulos (University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece)
0379 CORRELATION BETWEEN LOSSES OF THE IGH OR ITS SEGMENTS AND DELETIONS OF 13Q14 IN MULTIPLE MYELOMA WITH TRANSLOCATION T(1;14) (Q13;Q32) DETECTED BY COMBINED ANALYSIS OF MORPHOLOGY AND FISH
L. Trakhtenbrot, I. Hardan, M. Koren-Michowitz, Sh. Oren, G. Yeshoev, G. Rechavi, A. Nagler, N. Amariglio (Institute of Hematology, Ramat Gan, Israel)
0380 BUSULPHAN PLUS MELPHALAN (BUMEL) VERSUS MELPHALAN- 200 MG (MEL) AS CONDITIONING REGIMENS FOR MULTIPLE MYELOMA (MM): A SEQUENTIAL PROSPECTIVE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EFFICACY AND TOXICITY
J. Martínez, M.V. Mateos, M.V. Mateos, J. de la Rubia, L. Rosiñol, A. Sureda, J. García-Laraña, R. Martínez, M.T. Hernandez, D. Carrera, J. Besalduch, F. de Arriba, A. Oriol, L. Escoda, B. Hernández, J. Garcia-Frade, C. Rivas González, A. Alegre, J. Bladé, J. San Miguel, J.J. Lahuerta (Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain)
0381 TANESPIMYCIN AND BORTEZOMIB IN PATIENTS WITH RELAPSED AND RELAPSED AND REFRACTORY MULTIPLE MYELOMA: FINAL RESULTS OF A PHASE 1/2 STUDY
P.G. Richardson, A. Chanan-Khan, S. Lonial, A. Krishnan, M. Carroll, M. Alsina, M. Albitar, D. Berman, T. Szatrowski, S. Kaplita, K.C. Anderson (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA)
0382 COMBINATION OF THALIDOMIDE, PEGYLATED LIPOSOMAL DOXORUBICIN, DEXAMETHASONE AND BORTEZOMIB (THADD-V) IN RELAPSED/REFRACTORY MULTIPLE MYELOMA (MM): RESULTS OF A PHASE II STUDY
M. Offidani (Clinica di Ematologia Ospedali Riuniti Ancona, Ancona, Italy)
0383 A MULTICENTER PHASE II CLINICAL TRIAL OF LENALIDOMIDE,
MELPHALAN, PREDNISONE AND THALIDOMIDE (RMPT) IN
PATIENTS WITH RELAPSED/REFRACTORY MULTIPLE MYELOMA

A. Palumbo, A. Larocca, G. Sanpaolo, A.P. Falcone, V. Federico, L. Canepa, M. Crugnola, V. Magarotto, F. Cavallo, M.T. Petrucci, M. Boccadoro (A.O.U. San Giovanni Battista, Turin, Italy)
0384 THALIDOMIDE-INTERFERON VS. INTERFERON MAINTENANCE THERAPY AFTER INDUCTION WITH THAL-DEX OR MP IN ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH MULTIPLE MYELOMA
H. Ludwig, Z. Adam, E. Tóthová, R. Hajek, B. Labar, M. Egyed,I. Spicka, J. Drach, H. Gisslinger, I. Kuhn, N. Zojer, A. Hinke (Wilhelminenspital, Vienna, Austria)
0385 REVERSAL OF ACUTE RENAL IMPAIRMENT BY BORTEZOMIBDOXORUBICIN- DEXAMETHASONE (BDD) IN MULTIPLE MYELOMA (MM). RESULTS FROM AN PHASE II STUDY
H. Ludwig, Z. Adam, R. Greil, E. Tóthová, F. Keil, N. Zojer, J. Thaler, H. Gisslinger, M. Egyed, A. Lang (Wilhelminenspital, Vienna, Austria)
0386 THE PRESENCE OF RESIDUAL NORMAL PLASMA CELLS BY MULTIPARAMETER FLOW CYTOMETRY IN THE BONE MARROW OF SYMPTOMATIC MULTIPLE MYELOMA PATIENTS AT DIAGNOSIS IDENTIFIES A GOOD PROGNOSTIC SUBGROUP
B. Paiva, M. Vidriales, J. Cerveró, G. Mateo, J. Pérez, M.A. Montalbán, A. Sureda, L. Montejano, N. Gutiérrez, A. García de Coca, N. De las Heras, M. Mateos, M. López-Berges, R. García-Boyero, J. Galende, J. Hernández, L. Palomera, D. Carrera, R. Martínez, J. De la Rubia, A. Martín, J. Bladé, J. Lahuerta, A. Orfao, J.F. San Miguel (University Hospital of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain)
0387 COMBINED VORINOSTAT, LENALIDOMIDE AND DEXAMETHASONE THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH RELAPSED OR REFRACTORY MULTIPLE MYELOMA: A PHASE I STUDY
D. Siegel, D. Weber, C. Mitsiades, M. Dimopoulos, J. Harousseau, S. Rizvi, J. Howe, D. Reiser, K. Anderson, P. Richardson (Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, USA)
0388 SURVIVAL AND YEARS OF LIFE LOST IN DIFFERENT AGE CATEGORIES OF PTS WITH MM
H. Ludwig, Z. Adam, E. Tóthová, R. Hajek, B. Labar, M. Egyed, I. Spicka, J. Drach, H. Gisslinger, I. Kuhn, N. Zojer, A. Hinke (Wilhelminenspital, Vienna, Austria)
0389 BORTEZOMIB , PEGYLATED LIPOSOMAL DOXORUBICIN AND DEXAMETHASONE (B-D-D) AS THERAPY FOR ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH RELAPSED REFRACTORY MULTIPLE MYELOMA: A WEEKLY BORTEZOMIB SCHEDULE REDUCES TOXICITIES MANTAINING THE SAME EFFICACY
A. Gozzetti, A. Fabbri, E. Marchini, S. Oliva, M. Defina, M. Bocchia, F. Lauria (University of Siena, Siena, Italy)
0390 BETA-2 MICROGLOBULIN IS AN INDEPENDENT PREDICTOR OF PROGRESSION IN ASYMPTOMATIC MULTIPLE MYELOMA
D. Rossi, M. Fangzio, L. De Paoli, V. Pinto, P. Riccomagno, A. Puma, A. Ramponi, G. Gaidano (Division of Hematology, Amedeo Avogadro University, Novara, Italy)
0391 PATTERNS OF SURVIVAL AND CAUSES OF DEATH FOLLOWING A DIAGNOSIS OF MONOCLONAL GAMMOPATHY OF UNDETERMINED SIGNIFICANCE (MGUS): A POPULATION-BASED STUDY
S.Y. Kristinsson, M. Björkholm, T.M.L. Andersson, S. Eloranta, P.W. Dickman, L.R. Goldin, C. Blimark, U.H. Mellqvist, A. Wahlin, I. Turesson, O. Landgren (Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden)
0392 BORTEZOMIB IN COMBINATION WITH DEXAMETHASONE OVERCOMES THE NEED FOR ADDITIONAL CHEMOTHERAPY PRIOR TO HIGH-DOSE THERAPY WITH AUTOTRANSPLANT IN PATIENTS WITH MULTIPLE MYELOMA
A. Corso, L. Barbarano, S. Mangiacavalli, L. Montalbetti, A.M. Cafro, A.M. Carella, M. Spriano, P.E. Alessandrino, G. Grillo, M. Varettoni, P. Bernasconi, M. Lazzarino, E. Morra (Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, University of pavia, Pavia, Italy)
0393 SURVIVAL EFFECT OF ERYTHOPOIETIC AGENTS AND VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM (VTE) IN MULTIPLE MYELOMA PATIENTS TREATED WITH LENALIDOMIDE AND HIGH-DOSE DEXAMETHASONE
M. Zangari, G. Tricot, L. Polavaram, A. Finlayson, F. Zhan, R. Knight, T. Fu, D. Weber, M. Dimopoulos, R. Niesvizky, L. Fink (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA)
0394 SERUM DKK1 IN MULTIPLE MYELOMA PATIENTS
U. Heider, M. Kaiser, M. Mieth, J. Rademacher, B. Lamottke, C. Jakob, E. Braendle, D. Stover, O. Sezer (Charite Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany)
0395 LENALIDOMIDE-BASED THERAPY LEADS TO IMPROVEMENT OF HUMORAL IMMUNE SYSTEM IN RELAPSED OR REFRACTORY MULTIPLE MYELOMA PATIENTS WHO RESPOND TO THE THERAPY
R. Baz, M. Dimopoulos, P. Richardson, Z. Yu, M. Hussein, A. Chanan-Khan (Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, USA)
0396 UP-FRONT SALVAGE TREATMENT WITH MELPHALAN 100 MG/M2 IN FULMINANT PROGRESSION OF MULTIPLE MYELOMA AND CONSOLIDATION WITH NOVEL DRUGS
M. Krejci, Z. Adam, A. Krivanova, L. Pour, M. Holanek, V. Sandecka, J. Mayer, J. Vorlicek, R. Hajek (University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic)
0397 SPEED OF RESPONSE WITH LENALIDOMIDE AND DEXAMETHASONE IN PATIENTS WITH RELAPSED OR REFRACTORY MULTIPLE MYELOMA: FIRST RESULTS OF THE MM-019 GERMAN COMPASSIONATE USE PROTOCOL
K.C. . Weisel, M. Hänel, D. Niederwieser, R. Naumann, N. Kröger, M. Engelhardt, H. Goldschmidt, N. Lang, C. Scheid, H.G. Sayer, A. Glasmacher, U. Dührsen (University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany)
0398 USE OF MAINTENANCE THERAPY WITH BORTEZOMIB AND DEXAMETHASONE (VD) IN ADVANCED MULTIPLE MYELOMA
G. Benevolo, A. Larocca, P. Pregno, F. Gay, B. Botto, C. Gentile, C. Frairia, A. Evangelista, F. Morabito, A. Palumbo, U. Vitolo, M. Boccadoro (Hematology, Turin, Italy)
0399 HALOFUGINONE, AN ORALLY-BIOAVAILABLE AGENT, HAS IN VITRO AND IN VIVO ANTIMYELOMA ACTIVITY, ASSOCIATED WITH UP REGULATION OF C-JUN, JNK, AND P-, PROAPOPTOTIC PROTEINS
M. Leiba, J. Jakubikova, S. Klippel, C. Mitsiades, T. Hideshima, Y.T. Tai, P. Richardson, A. Nagler, K. Anderson (Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA)
0400 SERUM LEVELS OF TOTAL-RANKL IN MULTIPLE MYELOMA
A. Goerke, C. Jakob, J. Sterz, U. Heider, M. Kaiser, M. Mieth, C. Müller,E. Terpos, O. Sezer (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany)

NON-HODGKIN LYMPHOMA - CLINICAL I

0401

QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF BONE MARROW INVOLVEMENT IN THE ENTIRE SPECTRUM OF NONHODGKIN'S LYMPHOMAS: COMPARISON BETWEEN HISTOLOGY AND FLOW CYTOMETRY IN 572 PATIENTS
M. Merli, L. Arcaini, E. Boveri, S. Rattotti, C. Picone, F. Passamonti, L. Vanelli, A. Tenore, M. Varettoni, S. Rizzi, E. Brusamolino, E. Rumi, B. Burroni, C. Pascutto, M. Paulli, M. Lazzarino (Division of Hematology, Fondazione IRCCS Polliclinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy, Pavia, Italy)

0402

CLIPI: A NEW PROGNOSTIC INDEX FOR INDOLENT CUTANEOUS B-CELL LYMPHOMA PROPOSED BY THE INTERNATIONAL EXTRANODAL LYMPHOMA STUDY GROUP (IELSG 11)
M. Mian, S. Cortelazzo, M. Federico, S. Luminari, L. Marcheselli, M. Cantonetti, A.H. Sarris, A. Rossi, A. Rambaldi, G. Lombardo, M. Frontoni, F. Pasini, L. Devizzi, O. Bairey, M. Busetto, E. Berti, G. Martinelli, R. Tsang, S. Rudoy, R. Blum, A. Ferreri, G. Pinotti, E. Pogliani, E. Zucca (Department of Hematology, Bolzano, Italy)

0403

RITUXIMAB-CHOP (R-CHOP) IN THE TREATMENT OF 441 DIFFUSE LARGE B-CELL LYMPHOMA (DLBCL) PATIENTS: OUTCOME AND PROGNOSTIC FACTORS FOCUSING TO THE REVISED INTERNATIONAL PROGNOSTIC INDEX (R-IPI)
T.P. Vassilakopoulos, G.A. Pangalis, A. Anastasopoulou, M.K. Angelopoulou, M. Dimou, E. Stavroulaki, S. Karakatsanis, C. Kalpadakis, S. Sachanas, M.C. Kyrtsonis, S.I. Kokoris, M.P. Siakantaris, X. Yiakoumis, P. Roussou, P. Panayiotidis, H. Papadaki, N. Constantinou (Department of Haematology, University of Athens, Athens, Greece)

0404

FINAL RESULTS OF THE PHASE II MULTICENTER ITALIAN STUDY OF IMMUNOCHEMOTHERAPY WITH FLUDARABINE, CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE AND RITUXIMAB (FCR) FOR SYMPTOMATIC WALDENSTROM'S MACROGLOBULINEMIA
A. Tedeschi, G. Benevolo, M. Varettoni, M. Battista, C. Visco, S. Miqueleiz, F. Ricci, P.L. Zinzani, V. Meneghini, P. Pioltelli, F. Zaja, M. Nichelatti, M. Lazzarino, U. Vitolo, E. Morra (Niguarda Ca' Granda Hospital, Milan, Italy)

0405 LNH-PRO-05 STUDY: EXCELLENT CLINICAL AND MOLECULAR RESPONSES IN FLIPI=2 FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA PATIENTS WITH RITUXIMAB PLUS CVP (BAGLEY) AND 12 WEEKS OF INTERFERON ALFA
J. Cannata-Ortiz, C. Nicolás, A. Garcia-Noblejas, S. Montes-Moreno, J. López, M.J. Requena, M.A. Piris, R. Arranz (Hospital de la Princesa, Madrid, Spain)
0406 POSTTRANSPLANT LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER (PTLD): CHARACTERISTICS AND OUTCOME IN A BELGIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
D. Dierickx, T. Tousseyn, C. De Wolf-Peeters, M. Delforge, T. Devos, A. Janssens, J. Maertens, S. Meers, G. Verhoef (University Hospitals Gatshuisberg, Leuven, Belgium)
0407 SAFETY AND CLINICAL ACTIVITY OF THE ANTI-CD22 IMMUNOCONJUGATE INOTUZUMAB OZOGAMICIN (CMC-544) IN COMBINATION WITH RITUXIMAB IN RECURRENT/REFRACTORY FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA OR DIFFUSE LARGE B-CELL LYMPHOMA
W.M. Johnson, L.E. Fayad, B. Coiffier, M.D. Smith, A. Rohatiner, G. Hess, J.L. Kaufman, G. Verhoef, F. Offner, S. Hua, H. Patel, E.R. Vandendries, N.H. Dang (CR UK Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom)
0408 CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PRESENCE OF OCCULT CNS INVOLVEMENT ASSESSED BY FLOW CYTOMETRY IN PATIENTS WITH NON HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA AT HIGH RISK OF CNS RELAPSE
J.M. Sancho, A. Orfao, S. Quijano, O. Garcia, C. Panizo, E. Pérez-Ceballos, G. Deben, A. Salar, E. González-Barca, N. Alonso, J.A. García-Vela, J. Capote, F.J. Peñalver, M. Provencio, J. Arias, J. Plaza, D. Caballero, M. Morado, M. Cruz, A. Palacios, A. Carmona, E. Conde, T. Molero, E. Romero, M.C. Mateos, M.J. Peñarrubia, J.M. Ribera (ICO-Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain)
0409 A PHASE 2 STUDY OF VORINOSTAT (SUBEROYLANILIDE HYDROXAMIC ACID, SAHA) IN RELAPSED OR REFRACTORY INDOLENT NON-HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA. A CALIFORNIA CANCER CONSORTIUM STUDY
M. Kirschbaum, L. Popplewell, A. Nademanee, V. Pullarkat, M. Delioukina, J. Zain, D. Matsuoka, B. Pulone, P. Frankel, S. Forman, I. Espinoza-Delgado, E. Newman (City of Hope National Cancer Center, Duarte, USA)
0410 EARLY EVALUATION OF 18-FDG-POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY/ COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (PET) DOES NOT PREDICT THE OUTCOME IN DIFFUSE LARGE B-CELL LYMPHOMA (DLBCL) PATIENTS TREATED WITH R-CHOP
P. Pregno, A. Chiappella, M. Bellò, S. Ferrero, R. Passera, C. Boccomini, B. Botto, G. Castellano, C. Frairia, S. Franceschetti, R. Freilone, M. Menga, F. Salvi, M. Ladetto, U. Vitolo (Hematology , AOU San Giovanni Battista, Turin, Italy)
0411 ACTIVITY AND SAFETY OF BORTEZOMIB AND RITUXIMAB IN RELAPSED/REFRACTORY INDOLENT NON FOLLICULAR AND MANTLE-CELL NON HODGKIN LYMPHOMA: A PHASE II MULTICENTER STUDY BY INTERGRUPPO ITALIANO LINFOMI
P. Pregno, A. Chiappella, P.L. Zinzani, L. Orsucci, V. Stefoni, E. Russo, A. Tucci, S. Franceschetti, R. Freilone, A. Fabbri, A. Ferreri, L. Gargantini, A.M. Liberati, L. Rigacci, A. Evangelista, U. Vitolo (On behalf of Intergruppo Italiano Linfomi, Hematology , AOU S.Giovanni Battista, Turin, Italy)
0412 LYMPHOMA - EMERGING REALITIES IN SUB-SAHARA AFRICA
P. Jacobs, G. Sissolak, J. Juritz, D. Sissolak, L. Wood (Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa)
0413 FIRST RESULTS OF LONG TERM RITUXIMAB MAINTENANCE TREATMENT IN FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA: SAFETY ANALYSIS OF THE RANDOMIZED PHASE III TRIAL SAKK 35/03
F. Hitz, S. Bassi, C. Taverna, W. Mingrone, T. Pabst, L. Cevreska, A. Del Giglio,D.A. Vorobiof, M. Simcock, M. Ghielmini (Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland)
0414 VALIDATION OF ABSOLUTE LYMPHOCYTE COUNT / REVISED IPI (ALC/R-IPI) SCORE MODEL, AS A PROGNOSTIC INDEX FOR DIFFUSE LARGE-B-CELL LYMPHOMA IN RITUXIMAB ERA
F. Mendicino, L. Marcheselli, A . Bari, R. Marcheselli, S. Falorio, G. Polimeno, M.C. Cox (A.O. Sant'Andrea - 2nd Faculty of Medicine - “La Sapienza” University, Rome, Italy)
0415 SPLENECTOMY VERSUS RITUXIMAB IN THE TREATMENT OF SPLENIC MARGINAL ZONE LYMPHOMA (SMZL)
C. Kalpadakis, G.A. Pangalis, T.P. Vassilakopoulos, S. Sachanas, M.C. Kyrtsonis, M. Dimopoulou, P. Korkolopoulou, F.N. Kontopidou, X. Yiakoumis, M.P. Siakantaris, E.M. Dimitriadou, P. Panayiotidis, H. Papadaki, M.K. Angelopoulou (Department of Haematology, University of Crete, Athens, Greece)
0416 PHASE II STUDY OF INTRATHECAL LONG ACTING LIPOSOMAL CYTARABINE (DEPOCYTE_) IN THE PROPHYLAXIS OF LYMPHOMATOUS MENINGITIS IN HIV-RELATED NON-HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA
M. Spina, E. Chimienti, F. Martellotta, M. Berretta, E. Zanet, P.K. Nigri, V. Canzonieri, P. Bulian, U. Tirelli (National Cancer Institute, Aviano, Italy)
0417 INTEREST OF 18-FLUORO-DEOXYGLUCOSE POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (FDG-PET) IN INITIAL STAGING, RESPONSE ASSESSMENT AND PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA (MCL)
C. Touzeau, C. Bodet-Milin, C. Leux, S. Mehmet, A. Moreau, H. Maisonneuve, N. Morineau, H. Jardel, P. Moreau, R. Gressin, J.L. Harousseau, P. Moreau, F. Kraeber-Bodere, S. Le Gouill (University Hospital, Nantes, France)
0418 LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP OF RITUXIMAB AND INFUSIONAL CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE, DOXORUBICIN, AND ETOPOSIDE (CDE) IN COMBINATION WITH HAART IN HIV-RELATED NON-HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMAS (NHL)
M. Spina, E. Chimienti, E. Vaccher, U. Jaeger, J.A. Sparano, R. Talamini, U. Tirelli (National Cancer Institute, Aviano, Italy)

NON-HODGKIN LYMPHOMA - CLINICAL II

0419

HISTOLOGIC TRANSFORMATION OF FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA INTO DIFFUSE LARGE B-CELL LYMPHOMA IN THE IOSI EXPERIENCE
A. Conconi, M. Motta, L. Wannesson, C. Piona, A. Stathis, P. Froesch, E. Gracia, W. Belisario Filho, D. Rodriguez Abreu, M. Ghielmini, F. Cavalli, E. Zucca (Hematology-AOU Maggiore della Carità/Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Novara, Italy)

0420

FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA IN LEUKEMIC PHASE AT DIAGNOSIS: CLINICAL AND BIOLOGICAL FEATURES IN A SERIES OF 24 PATIENTS AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS WITH NON-LEUKEMIC PATIENTS
L. Morabito, J.M. Raya, S. Guedes, P. Martin, T. Martin, J.M. Bosch, A. Lemes, T. Molero, M.T. Hernandez-Garcia, M.L. Brito, L. Hernández- Nieto (Hospital Universitario de Canarias, La Laguna, Spain)

0421

ORAL VORINOSTAT COMBINED WITH BEXAROTENE IN ADVANCED CUTANEOUS T-CELL LYMPHOMA: A PHASE I STUDY
S. Rizvi, R. Dummer, K. Hymes, W. Sterry, M. Steinhoff, C. Assaf, H. Kerl, J. Ahern, J. Ricker, S. Whittaker (Universitätsspital Zürich - Dermatologische Klinik, Zürich, Switzerland)

0422

CLINICAL IMPACT OF SIX-COLOR FLOW CYTOMETRY IN LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS: IDENTIFICATION AND EXTENDED CHARACTERIZATION OF COMPOSITE LYMPHOMAS
L. Brunetti, A. De Renzo, M. Picardi, F. Chiurazzi, E. Abate, M. Gorrese, M. Raia, A. Gravetti, C. Pascariello, G. Scalia, L. Del Vecchio (Ceinge Institute, Naples, Italy)

0423 LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP OF TANDEM HIGH-DOSE THERAPY WITH AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL SUPPORT FOR ADULTS WITH HIGH-RISK AGE-ADJUSTED INTERNATIONAL PROGNOSTIC INDEX AGGRESSIVE NON-HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMAS: A GOELAMS PILOT STUDY
H. Monjanel, E. Deconinck, E. Perrodeau, B. Mahé, V. Delwail, A. Moreau, S. François, C. Berthou, E. Gyan, N. Milpied (CHU de Tours, Hopital Bretonneau, Tours, France)
0424 RAPID INFUSION OF RITUXIMAB IS WELL TOLERATED AND ENABLES MORE EFFICIENT USE OF HAEMATOLOGY DAY WARD RESOURCES
S. Peinert, M. Moloney, H.M. Prince, M. Wolf, D. Ritchie, D. Westerman, D. Carney, H. Januszewicz, K. Herbert, S. Harrison, J.F. Seymour (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia)
0425 A NOVEL GERMLINE MUTATION IN MSH6 - IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CLINICAL CARE OF CHILDHOOD LEUKAEMIA/LYMPHOMA PATIENTS
T. Ripperger, C. Beger, N. Rahner, K.W. Sykora, C. Bockmeyer, U. Lehmann, H.H. Kreipe, B. Schlegelberger (Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany)
0426 DOSE-DENSE THERAPY WITH NON-PEGYLATED LIPOSOMAL DOXORUBICIN, CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE, VINCRISTINE, PREDNISONE AND RITUXIMAB (R-COMP) IS FEASIBLE AND EFFECTIVE IN ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH NEWLY DIAGNOSED AGGRESSIVE B-CELL NON-HODGKIN LYMPHOMA: R-COMP 14 VS R-COMP 21. INTERIM ANALYSIS FROM AN ITALIAN MULTICENTE
G. Visani, F. Ferrara, F. Merli, F. Angrilli, F. Ilariucci, S. Falorio, G. Fioritoni, F. Alesiani, M. Brunori, F. Pollio, M. Celentano, D. Cangini, S. Ronconi, M. Catarini, G. Giglio, D. Vallisa, A. Arcari, D. Bernardi, B. Guiducci, S. Barulli, F. Loscocco, A. Isidori (Department of Hematology, Pesaro, Italy)
0427 ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION IN NON-HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA PATIENTS WHO PROGRESSED AFTER HIGH DOSE CHEMOTHERAPY WITH AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY BASED ON DONOR AVAILABILITY
J.W. Kim, B.S. Kim, S.M. Bang, I. Kim, S.S. Yoon, J.S. Lee, K.S. Han, S. Park, B.K. Kim (Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South-Korea)
0428 IFOSFAMIDE, EPIRRUBICIN, AND ETOPOSIDE (IEV) AS MOBILIZATION-THERAPY REGIMEN FOR PATIENTS WITH NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA AND HODGKIN DISEASE: COMPARISON WITH OTHER CHEMOTHERAPY REGIMENS
L. Quintana-Paris, J.M. Bergua, J. Sanchez-Garcia, J. Serrano, H. Bañas, M.A. Alvarez, J. Prieto-Fernandez, G. Rodriguez-Garcia, M. Bengochea-Casado, A. Torres-Gomez (University Hospital Reina Sofia, Cordoba, Spain)
0429 SMALL LYMPHOCYTIC LYMPHOMA (SLL): RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS FROM THE REGISTRY OF CZECH LYMPHOMA STUDY GROUP
L. Smolej, I. Vasova, J. Salkova, D. Belada, A. Sykorova, M. Jankovska, V. Campr, H. Krejcova, M. Trneny (University Hospital and Medical School, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic)
0430 PHARMACODYNAMIC ANALYSES OF PERIPHERAL BLOOD FROM RELAPSED B-NHL PATIENTS TREATED WITH ANTI-CD19/-CD3 BISPECIFIC BITE_ ANTIBODY BLINATUMOMAB
M. Klinger, D. Nagorsen, C. Brandl, S. Wissing, P. Meier, P.A. Baeuerle, P. Kufer (Micromet AG, Munich, Germany)
0431 SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF BENDAMUSTINE WITH OR WITHOUT RITUXIMAB IN THE TREATMENT OF HEAVILY PRETREATED PATIENTS WITH LYMPHOMA OR CLL. A MULTICENTER RETROSPECTIVE STUDY
L. Rigacci, B. Puccini, A. D'Arco, E. Orciuolo, S. Cortelazzo, G. Gaidano, C. Patti, P. Musto, P.L. Zinzani, S. Storti, A. Carpaneto, N. Di Renzo, N. Cascavilla, V. Belsito Petrizzi, N. Cecconi, G. Buda, S. Franceschetti, E. Derenzini, A. Costa, G. Giordano, M. Montanaro, A. Billio, G. Mansueto, A. Bosi (Azienda Ospedaliera Careggi, Florence, Italy)
0432 CONTINUOUS, ORAL CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE AND PREDNISOLONE AS A VALID TREATMENT OPTION FOR PERIPHERAL T CELL LYMPHOMA
A. Tucci, E. Cerqui, M. Ungari, S. Ferrari, A. Bacigalupo, F. Facchetti, G. Rossi (Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy)
0433 LONG TERM OUTCOME OF HIGH DOSE ARACYTINE, RITUXIMAB, AND DEXAMETHASONE CHEMOTHERAPY FOR AGGRESSIVE MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA IN ELDERLY PATIENTS
R. KOTB, J.A. Boisjoly, P. Beauregard, M. Lepine-Martin (CHU de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada)
0434 DOSE INTENSITY IN HODGKIN AND NON-HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA
J.M. Mariz, A. Teixeira, A. Marques Pereira, J. Espírito Santo, M. Marques, E. Magalhães, C. Portela, M.C. Trindade, R. Costa, I. Oliveira, R. Vieira, H. Marques (Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto Francisco Gentil, E.P.E., Porto, Portugal)
0436 THE NEW ALC/R-IPI SCORE HAS A GOOD ABILITY TO DISCRIMINATE PROGNOSIS IN DLBCL TREATED WITH IMMUNO-CHEMOTHERAPY
M. Cox, I. Nofroni, L. Ruco, R. Amodeo, B. Veggia, A. Ferrari, G. La Verde, P. Cardelli, E. Montefusco, E. Conte, G. Antolino, M.P. Bianchi, B. Monarca, M.A. Aloe spirit (A.O. Sant'Andrea, Rome, Italy)

THROMBOSIS AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY I

0437

PATIENTS REQUIRING INTERRUPTION OF LONG-TERM ORAL ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY: THE ADVANTAGE OF FIXED SUBTHERAPEUTIC DOSES OF LOW-MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN
A. Malato, G. Saccullo, L. Lo coco, D. Caramazza, I. Abbene, G. Giuseppina, S. Siragusa (University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy)

0438

RESISTANCE TO CLOPIDOGREL DETECTED BY REAL TIME EVALUATION OF PLATELET THROMBUS FORMATION
G.L. Mendolicchio, D. Zavalloni, E. Corrada, M. Bacci, M.L. Rossi, L. Rota, Z.M. Ruggeri (Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano, Italy)

0439

EFFECT OF THE NOVEL, ORAL, DIRECT FACTOR XA INHIBITOR RIVAROXABAN ON COAGULATION ASSAYS
M.M. Samama, L. Le Flem, C. Guinet, E. Perzborn, J.-L. Martinoli, F. Depasse (Hotel Dieu Hospital, Paris, France)

0440

THE HEMOSTATIC PROFILE OF ESSENTIAL THROMBOCYTHEMIA (ET) AND POLYCYTHEMIA VERA (PV) PATIENTS IS INFLUENCED BY THE JAK2V617F ALLELE BURDEN
M. Marchetti, E. Castoldi, L. Russo, A. Vignoli, J. Rosing, H. Ten Cate, A. Falanga (Ospedali Riuniti Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy)

0441 SOLUBLE ENDOGLIN AND ITS INTERACTION WITH ADHESION MOLECULES IN PATIENTS WITH THALASSEMIA INTERMEDIA
I. Papassotiriou, M. Siopi, C. Lazaropoulou, I. Kanavaki, V. Ladis, A. Kattamis (Aghia Sophia Childen's Hospital, Athens, Greece)
0442 ORAL PREVENTION OF VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM AFTER TOTAL KNEE OR HIP REPLACEMENT SURGERY IN THE ELDERLYAND THOSE WITH MODERATE RENAL IMPAIRMENT: EFFICACY AND SAFETY PROFILE OF DABIGATRAN ETEXILATE
O.E. Dahl, A.A. Kurth, N. Rosencher, A. Clemens, M. Feuring, H. Noack, B.I. Eriksson (Thrombosis Research Institute, London, UK and Elverum Central Hospital, Elverum, Norway)
0443 EFFICACY AND SAFETY PROFILE OF 220 MG DABIGATRAN ETEXILATE IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING TOTAL HIP OR KNEE REPLACEMENT SURGERY WITH A HISTORY OF STROKE, TRANSIENT ISCHAEMIC ATTACK OR VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM
O.E. Dahl, C. Francis, A.A. Kurth, N. Rosencher, M. Feuring, H. Noack, A. Clemens, B.I. Eriksson, J.A. Caprini (Thrombosis Research Institute, London, UK and Elverum Central Hospital, Elverum, Norway)
0444 LOW PLATELET GLYCOPROTEIN IB-POSITIVE MICROPARTICLES IN PATIENTS WITH CORONARY STENT THROMBOSIS
G.L. Mendolicchio, C. Godino, D. Zavalloni, A. Colombo, Z.M. Ruggeri (Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano, Italy)
0445 YOUNG PATIENTS WITH STROKE, PFO (PATENT FORAMEN OVALE) AND THROMBOPHILIA
C. Lodigiani, P. Ferrazzi, L. Librè, E. Morenghi, M. Minaudo, L.L. Rota, D. Mari (Ist Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano/Milan, Italy)
0446 HIGHER CIRCULATING ACTIVATED PROTEIN C (APC)/PC AND APC/FACTOR II RATIOS DURING ORAL ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY. INFLUENCE OF THE HAPLOTYPE 1 OF THE ENDOTHELIAL PROTEIN C RECEPTOR GENE
F. España, S. Navarro, P. Medina, F. Ferrando, A. Vayá, Y. Mira, A. Estellés, F. España (Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia, Spain)
0447 LAC TESTING IN PATIENTS WITH INFLAMMATORY STATUS
M.E. Schouwers, J. Delanghe, K. Devreese (Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium)
0448 SILENT BRAIN ABNORMALITIES IN THALASSEMIA INTERMEDIA: DIAGNOSTIC CONTRIBUTION OF POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY
A. Taher, K. Musallam, W. Nasreddine, A. Beydoun (American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon)
0449 REVERSAL OF THE ANTIHAEMOSTATIC EFFECTS OF RIVAROXABAN BY ACTIVATED FACTOR VII AND ACTIVATED PROTHROMBIN COMPLEX IN PRIMATES
A. Gruber, U.M. Marzec, U. Buetehorn, S. Hanson, E. Perzborn (Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine, Portland, USA)
0450 THE RISK OF RECURRENT VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM IN PATIENTS WITH MULTIPLE GENETIC THROMBOPHILIC DEFECTS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
G. De Asis, L. Tse, J. Chan, K. Ramadan (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
0451 ADAMTS13 LEVELS IN HIV INFECTED PATIENTS WITH AND WITHOUT TTP
P.N. Badenhorst, M. Meiring, B. van Staden, W.J. Janse van Rensburg, H. Deckmyn (University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa)
0452 HIGH AVIDITY ANTICARDIOLIPIN ANTIBODIES ASSOCIATE WITH THROMBOSIS IN PATIENTS WITH ANTHIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME
G. Lobreglio, G.C. Giancarlo (A.O. “Card G Panico”, Tricase, Italy)
0453 THE USE OF INFERIOR VENA CAVAL FILTERS AT A DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
N.B. Bhatnagar, J. Blundell (Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust, Truro, United Kingdom)
0454 IDENTIFICATION OF MUTATIONS IN THE PROTEIN C GENE ASSOCIATED WITH THE RISK OF VENOUS TROMBOSIS
F. España, P. Medina, S. Navarro, A. Vayá, F. Ferrando, M.T. Contreras, A. Estellés, F. España (Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia, Spain)
0455 ARE THROMBIN-ACTIVATABLE FIBRINOLYSIS INHIBITOR (TAFI) POLYMORPHISMS DETERMINANTS OF THE TYPE OF ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME?
D. Tassies, M. Roque, J. Monteagudo, T. Martorell, A. Sionis, D. Arzamendi, M. Heras, J.C. Reverter (Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)

 

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0456

ORAL VALGANCICLOVIR AS EARLY PRE-EMPTIVE TREATMENT FOR CMV REACTIVATION AFTER ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION: A SINGLE CENTER EXPERIENCE IN 45 PATIENTS
M.T. Lupo Stanghellini, R. Greco, T. Generali, D. Clerici, S. Malato, C. Corti, M.G. Carrabba, F. Lunghi, E. Biral, J. Peccatori, M. Bernardi, M. Marcatti, L. Fumagalli, F. Crippa, F. Ciceri (San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy)

0457

INCIDENCE AND RISK FACTORS OF PROVEN OR PROBABLE INVASIVE FUNGAL INFECTIONS (IFI) IN 286 PATIENTS UNDERGOING RELATED OR UNRELATED ALLOGENEIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION
A. Candoni, E. Simeone, M. Tiribelli, M. Cerno, A. Geromin, A. Sperotto, L. Pagano, R. Fanin (Division of Hematology, Udine, Italy)

0458

ONCE-WEEKLY LIPOSOMAL AMPHOTERICIN B FOR PROPHYLAXIS OF INVASIVE FUNGAL INFECTION AFTER GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE (GVHD) IN ALLOGENEIC HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION (ALLO-SCT): A COMPARATIVE RETROSPECTIVE MONOCENTER STUDY
J. El-Cheikh, L. Wang, C. Faucher, S. Furst, L. Castagna, B. Esterni, S. Duran, P. Berger, P. Viens, D. Blaise (Institut Paoli Calmettes, Marceille, France)

0459

INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA: REPORT OF SEIFEM-2008 MULTICENTER SURVEY
L. Pagano, M. Caira, A. Candoni, M. Offidani, B. Martino, G. Specchia, M. Stanzani, C. Cattaneo, R. Fanci, C. Caramatti, F. Rossini, L. Potenza, F. Ferrara, M.E. Mitra, R. Invernizzi, T. Aloisi, M. Picardi, A. Bonini, G. Lanasa, A. Chierichini, L. Melillo, C. De Waure, L. Fianchi, M. Riva, F. Aversa, G. Leone, A. Nosari (Catholic University, Rome, Italy)

0460 RAPID DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF PATHOGENS IN HEMATOONCOLOGICAL PATIENTS USING MOLECULAR TECHNIQUES
S. Pekova, O. Mazal, J. Vydra, H. Kabickova, T. Kozak, S. Pekova (Na Homolce Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic)
0461 COMBINED QUANTITATIVE CMV PCR MONITORING WITH PREEMPTIVE ORAL VALGANCLOVIR IS EFFECTIVE IN PREVENTING SYMPTOMATIC CMV INFECTION IN ALLOGENEIC HAEMOPOIETIC TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS
S. Hewamana, B. Austen, K. Karunanithi, U. Mohite, N. Price, K. Wilson (UHW, Cardiff, United Kingdom)
0462 CANDIDEMIA IN PATIENTS WITH HEMAT0LOGICAL MALIGNANCIES: THE ROLE OF PROPHYLAXIS AND THE IMPORTANCE OF LOCAL EPIDEMIOLOGY IN TREATMENT
M. Bastos Oreiro, M. Canales, R. De Paz Arias, A. Lopez de la Guia, P. Baltazar, M.J. Garcia Rodriguez, J. Garcia Rodriguez, F. Hernandez Navarro (Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain)
0463 MANAGEMENT OF FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA EPISODES IN PATIENTS WITH HEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCIES BY USING THE MULTINATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR SUPPORTIVE CARE IN CANCER (MASCC) RISK INDEX
A. Argyrou, M. Pergaminou, A. Galanopoulos, T. Marinakis, E. Michalis, }G. Gkortzolidis, N.I. Anagnostopoulos (“G.N.A. G.Gennimatas” General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece)
0464 SERUM N-TERMINAL PRO-BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE IN HAEMATOLOGICAL PATIENTS WITH NEUTROPENIC FEVER: A PROSPECTIVE COMPARISON WITH C-REACTIVE PROTEIN
E. Jantunen, S. Hämäläinen, T. Kuittinen, I. Koivula, I. Matinlauri, T. Nousiainen, K. Pulkki, A. Juutilainen (Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland)
0465 PALONOSETRON (ALOXI): A SINGLE-CENTER EXPERIENCE IN THE PREVENTION OF EMESIS IN PATIENTS AFFECTED BY HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCIES
A.A. Assanelli, S. Agazzi, C. Soliman, F. Ciceri, V. Matozzo (San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy)
0466 PROLONGED FOLLOW-UP OF PATIENTS WITH HEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCIES INFECTED BY HBV AND HCV
S. Kulikov, T.S. Garmaeva, E. Mihailova, B. Sudarikov, P. Filatov, G. Savchenko (National Center for Hematology, Moscow, Russian Federation)
0467 COMPARISON BETWEEN FILGASTRIM AND PEG-FILGASTRIM IN REDUCING FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA AND MOBILIZING PBSC IN LYMPHOMA PATIENTS TREATED WITH DHAP OR R-DHAP
L. Marbello, M. Riva, A. Molteni, A. Nosari, G. Nador, L. Gargantini, E. Morra (Niguarda Cà Granda Hospital, Milan, Italy)
0468 NATURAL HISTORY OF HEPATITIS E DURING THE COURSE OF HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCIES
S. Tavitian, J.M. Peron, A. Huynh, J.M. Mansuy, F. Huguet, L. Ysebaert, M. Roussel, M. Attal, C. Recher (CHU Toulouse, Toulouse, France)
0469 FILGRASTIM DOSE HAS AN IMPACT ON INFECTIOUS COMPLICATIONS IN PATIENTS WITH LYMPHOMA FOLLOWING AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
Z. Peric, M. Kalac, S. Jurenec, V. Kovacevic, S. Bukovski-Simonoski,A. Tambic-Andrasevic, H. Minigo, B. Jaksic, R. Vrhovac (Clinical Hospital Merkur, Zagreb, Croatia)
0470 THE CONTRIBUTION OF NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF CHILDREN WITH MALIGNANCY TO MORBIDITY, MORTALITY AND THERAPY OUTCOMES
T. Hassan (Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt)