Hydroxyurea compared with anagrelide in high-risk essential thrombocythemia

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 353, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 33-45

  Harrison, Claire N ^b   Campbell, Peter J ^a   Buck, Georgina ^c   Wheatley, Keith ^d   East, Clare L ^a   Bareford, David ^e   Wilkins, Bridget S ^f   Van Der Walt, Jon D ^b   Reilly, John T ^g   Grigg, Andrew P ^j   Revell, Paul ^h   Woodcock, Barrie E ⁱ   Green, Anthony R ^a,k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^h STAFFORDSHIRE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ SOUTHPORT AND ORMSKIRK HOSPITAL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^j ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANAGRELIDE; HYDROXYUREA; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; QUINAZOLINE DERIVATIVE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BLEEDING; BODY WEIGHT DISORDER; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CELIAC DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON POLYP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DIVERTICULOSIS; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; EDEMA; ENTERITIS; ESOPHAGITIS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUSHING; FOLLOW UP; GALLSTONE; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART PALPITATION; HEART VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMORRHOID; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRRITABLE COLON; LEG ULCER; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MOUTH ULCER; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYELOFIBROSIS; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; PANCYTOPENIA; PEPTIC ULCER; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIDE EFFECT; THORAX PAIN; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTHEMIA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; VASCULAR DISEASE; VEIN THROMBOSIS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; VOLVULUS; VOMITING; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; DRUG COMBINATION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ASPIRIN; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYDROXYUREA; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOFIBROSIS; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PLATELET COUNT; QUINAZOLINES; THROMBOCYTHEMIA, HEMORRHAGIC; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 21444434751     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa043800     Document Type: Article

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