Nephrolithiasis as primary symptom in sarcoidosisKamran Darabi
Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Scand J Urol Nephrol 39:173-5. 2005
..It is important that physicians are aware of the possibility that sarcoidosis may present as urolithiasis, even in the presence of a negative chest roentgenogram...
- Infradiaphragmatic versus supradiaphragmatic Hodgkin lymphoma: a retrospective review of 1,114 patients
K Darabi
Our Lady of Mercy Comprehensive Cancer Center, New York Medical College, Bronx, NY 10466, USA
Leuk Lymphoma 46:1715-20. 2005
..Poorer outcomes with IDH as compared to SDH are attributable to its association with known adverse prognostic risk factors, but IDH, in itself, is not an independent adverse prognostic factor for treatment failure or survival...
- Hyperhemolysis syndrome in anemia of chronic disease
Kamran Darabi
Harvard University Joint Program in Transfusion Medicine and Blood Transfusion Service at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Transfusion 45:1930-3. 2005
..This syndrome usually occurs in patients with sickle cell disease and possibly thalassemia who receive multiple transfusions. There are few such clinical reports in patients without hemoglobinopathies...
- Current usage of intravenous immune globulin and the rationale behind it: the Massachusetts General Hospital data and a review of the literature
Kamran Darabi
Harvard University Joint Program in Transfusion Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Transfusion 46:741-53. 2006
..However, most usage is for off-label indications, and for some of these comprehensive guidelines have been published...
- An 87-year-old woman with respiratory distress and alveolar hemorrhage after transfusion
Kamran Darabi
Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Chest 130:1612-6. 2006
- Rituximab can be combined with daily plasma exchange to achieve effective B-cell depletion and clinical improvement in acute autoimmune TTP
Kamran Darabi
Joint Program in Transfusion Medicine of Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114, USA
Am J Clin Pathol 125:592-7. 2006
..We report 2 cases of refractory TTP in which the combined use of plasma exchange and rituximab was associated with clinical resolution of active TTP, and we discuss the benefits and possible timing of combined therapy...
- Acute hemolysis of transfused A2 red cells by an auto-HI antibody
Kamran Darabi
Blood Transfusion Service, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114 2696, USA
Transfusion 48:964-8. 2008
..An unusual case of an acute hemolytic transfusion reaction (AHTR) due to an anti-HI autoantibody in a subgroup A1 patient transfused with A2 red blood cells (RBCs) is reported...
- Work-hours regulations in the European Union and their impact on the physician workforce
Kamran Darabi
Swiss Med Wkly 135:92. 2005
