Cevimeline Reduced Mouth Dryness and Increased Salivary Flow in Patients with Xerostomia Complicating Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 792-794

  Carpenter, Paul A ^a,b   Schubert, Mark M ^b   Flowers, Mary E D ^b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CEVIMELINE; CYCLOSPORIN; DEXAMETHASONE; OXYCODONE; PAROXETINE; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EYE DISCOMFORT; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; SALIVATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WHEEZING; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASYMPATHOMIMETICS; QUINUCLIDINES; THIOPHENES; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 33745173498     PISSN: 10838791     EISSN: 15236536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2006.03.010     Document Type: Letter

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