Weight loss and reduced body mass index: A critical issue in children with multiorgan chronic graft-versus-host disease

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 527-533

  Browning, B ^a   Thormann, K ^a   Seshadri, R ^a   Duerst, R ^a   Kletzel, M ^a   Jacobsohn, D A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BMI; Chronic GVHD; Pediatric; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CYCLOSPORIN A; STEROID;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT DISORDER; CHILD; CHRONIC GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUNTER SYNDROME; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; MUCOLIPIDOSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALVAGE THERAPY; SCHIRMER TEST; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALVAGE THERAPY; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 33645317122     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: 14765365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1705268     Document Type: Article

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