[The treatment of chronic myeloleukemia with recombinant alfa-2 interferon]. / Lechenie khronicheskogo mieloleikoza rekombinantnym al'fa 2-interferonom.

A trial has been conducted of recombinant alpha 2-interferon (reaferon) used in 32 patients with Ph'[correction of Rh']-positive chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). A chronic stage was in 3, transient in 3 and blast in 1 patients. 25 CML patients were newly diagnosed. The treatment lasted from 2 months to 3 years. Clinicohematological remission was confirmed conventionally and by the degree of Ph'-positive clone reduction. An attempt is made to clarify the mechanism underlying the resistance to reaferon basing on the immunological data (detection of antireaferon neutralizing antibodies). The authors propose a combined treatment (myelosan plus reaferon) of CML which has obvious advantages over myelosan monotherapy.

[An unusual case of a basophilic variant of chronic myelogenous leukemia]. / Ein ungewöhnlicher Fall der basophilen Variante einer chronischen Myelose.

The described basophilic variant of CML in blastic crisis was characterized by a distinct hyperhistaminemia, a moderate hypocoagulation and an insufficiently effective cytostatic therapy. Cell kinetic was characterized by a marked diminution of the whole marketing index (with H3-thymidine) of blasts and immature basophils with simultaneous prolongation of the generation time in comparison to myeloblasts at the chronic stage of the CML. Aneuploid cell clones prevailed in the bone-marrow.