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Revista Cubana de Hematología, Inmunología y Hemoterapia

versión impresa ISSN 0864-0289versión On-line ISSN 1561-2996

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MILANES ROLDAN, María Teresa et al. Paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria. Rev Cubana Hematol Inmunol Hemoter [online]. 2003, vol.19, n.1. ISSN 0864-0289.

The paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) is a clonal acquired disease caused by a somatic mutation in the PIG-A gene that is located in the chromosome X and codifies a protein involved in the synthesis of glycosil phosphatidylinositol (GPI), which serves as an anchor for many proetins of the cellular membrane. The mutations occurs in the hematopoietic stem cell and gives rise to a partial or total deficiency of the protein PIG-A with the subsequent alteration in the synthesis of the anchored GPI. As a result, a part of the blood cells will be lacking all the proteins bound to the GPI. The absence of these proteins in the NPH explains some of the clinical symptoms of the disease, such as the intravascular hemolysis mediated by the complement, the venous thrombosis, the deficit of hematopoiesis, etc., but not the mechanism by which the NPH clone expands into the bone marrow. Some studies have proved that the inactivation of the GPI-A gene does not confer a proliferative advantage to the mutated stem cell. One or more external environmental factors are needed for the expansion of this mutated clone. These factors exert a selective pressure in favor of the NPH clone. The cause for which the NPH clone is estimulated to proliferate may be a selective damage to the normal hematopoiesis. Several therapeutic agents have been used in the treatment of this disease, but the only curative treatment is the transplantation of hematopoietic progenitors

Palabras clave : HAEMOGLOBINURIA PAROXYSMAL [genetics]; HAEMOGLOBINURIA PAROXYSMAL [drug therapy]; BONE MARROW TRANS-PLANTATION; MUTATION.

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