1. Online First publication

   EDITORIAL Pages: 65 - 65

2. HLA-DR4-Ala74β is associated with risk and poor outcome of severe aplastic anemia

   • S. I. Kapustin
   • T. I. Popova
   • K. M. Abdulkadyrov

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 66 - 71

3. Absence of point mutations within the AML-1 gene in patients with MDS/AML and loss of chromosome 5q or 7

   • T. Ferrari
   • B. Weber
   • A. Borkhardt

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 72 - 73

4. The predictive value of vascular risk factors and gender for the development of thrombotic complications in essential thrombocythemia

   • R. Jantunen
   • E. Juvonen
   • T. Ruutu

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 74 - 78

5. Ineffectiveness of interferon-γ in the treatment of idiopathic myelofibrosis: a pilot study

   • N. Heis-Vahidi-Fard
   • E. Forberg
   • H. Gisslinger

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 79 - 82

6. Immunomagnetic enrichment of CD138 positive cells from weakly infiltrated myeloma patients samples enables the determination of the tumor clone specific IgH rearrangement

   • A. Draube
   • R. Pfister
   • H. Tesch

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 83 - 89

7. Molecular and clinical follow-up after stem cell transplantation for multiple myeloma

   • Patrizia Chiusolo
   • Simona Sica
   • Giuseppe Leone

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 90 - 95

8. High-dose etoposide phosphate and G-CSF mobilizes peripheral blood stem cells in patients that previously failed to mobilize

   • C. Junghanss
   • M. Leithäuser
   • M. Freund

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 96 - 102

9. Randomized controlled monocentric comparison of once daily ceftriaxone with tobramycin and cefotaxime three times daily with tobramycin in neutropenic fever

   • O. A. Cornely
   • U. Bethe
   • M. Schrappe

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 103 - 108

10. Successful transplantation and engraftment of peripheral blood stem cells after cryopreservation, positive and negative purging procedures, and a second cryopreservation cycle

    • A. Humpe
    • J. Riggert
    • M. Köhler

    CASE REPORT Pages: 109 - 112

11. Increased susceptibility of a carrier of X-linked chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) to Aspergillus fumigatus infection associated with age-related skewing of lyonization

    • A. Rösen-Wolff
    • W. Soldan
    • J. Roesler

    CASE REPORT Pages: 113 - 115

12. Disseminated scabies evolving in a patient undergoing induction chemotherapy for acute myeloblastic leukaemia

    • M. Trendelenburg
    • S. Büchner
    • A. Gratwohl

    CASE REPORT Pages: 116 - 118

13. Hepatic veno-occlusive disease in two patients with relapsed acute myeloid leukemia treated with anti-CD33 calicheamicin (CMA-676) immunoconjugate

    • P. Neumeister
    • M. Eibl
    • W. Linkesch

    CASE REPORT Pages: 119 - 120

14. A case of pulmonary toxicity associated with G-CSF and doxorubicin administration

    • C. F. Eisenbeis
    • D. Winn
    • O. I. Olopade

    CASE REPORT Pages: 121 - 123

15. Acquired inhibitor to factor VIII in small cell lung cancer: a case report and review of the literature

    • A. Shwaiki
    • L. Lara
    • F. C. Whittier

    CASE REPORT Pages: 124 - 126