Dr. Edgar Friedrich Prasthofer MD
Hematologist-Oncologist | Hematology & Oncology
401 W Hampden Pl Englewood CO, 80110About
Dr. Edgar Prasthofer is a hematologist oncologist practicing in Englewood, CO. Dr. Prasthofer specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of blood diseases such as anemia, hemophilia, sickle-cell disease, leukemia and lymphoma. Hematologist Oncologists are also trained in the study of cancer and its attack on other organs.
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Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Hematology
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Individual NK cell clones lyse both tumor cell targets and herpes simplex virus-infected fibroblasts in the absence of interferon.
- X-linked codominant genes control all types of non-major histocompatibility complex-restricted cytotoxicity.
- Prevalence of granular lymphocyte proliferation in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and neutropenia.
- Establishment of Tac-negative, interleukin-2-dependent cytotoxic cell lines from large granular lymphocytes (LGL) of patients with expanded LGL populations.
- Expression of NK-lineage markers on peripheral blood lymphocytes with T-helper (Leu3+/T4+) phenotype in B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
- T-cell imbalances in blood and lymph nodes from patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome or AIDS-related complex.
- Large granular lymphocytes from patients with expanded LGL populations acquire cytotoxic functions and release lymphokines upon in vitro activation.
- Spontaneous growth of colonies with mature T lineage phenotype from T-cell-depleted bone marrow precursors in a patient with a lymphoproliferative disorder of the large granular lymphocytes.
- Ultrastructural morphology of granular lymphocytes (GL) from patients with immunophenotypically homogeneous expansions of GL populations (GLE).
- Immune deficiency and expanded population of granular lymphocytes after bone marrow transplantation.
- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare infection in a previously healthy patient with classic hemophilia. Clinical, immunologic, and virologic findings.
- Chemotherapy of intermediate- and high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphomas with an intensive epirubicin-containing regimen.
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