Rituximab for pure red cell aplasia after ABO-mismatched allogeneic peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation [2]

Transfusion

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 643-645

  Sorà, Federica ^a   De Matteis, Silvia ^a   Piccirillo, Nicola ^a   Chiusolo, Patrizia ^a   Laurenti, Luca ^a   Putzulu, Rossana ^a   Leone, Giuseppe ^a   Sica, Simona ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; ERYTHROPOIETIN; METHOTREXATE; RITUXIMAB;

ADULT; BLOOD GROUP ABO INCOMPATIBILITY; CASE REPORT; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; HYPOGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; LETTER; LEUKEMIA; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; PURE RED CELL ANEMIA;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RED-CELL APLASIA, PURE;

EID: 17044380198     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0041-1132.2005.00445.x     Document Type: Letter

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