Extracorporeal photochemotherapy for the treatment of chronic graft-versus-host disease: Trend for a possible cell dose-related effect?

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 85-93

  Perseghin, Paolo ^a   Galimberti, Stefania ^a   Balduzzi, Adriana ^a   Bonanomi, Sonia ^a   Baldini, Valentina ^a   Rovelli, Attilio ^a   Dassi, Maria ^a   Rambaldi, Alessandro ^b   Castagna, Luca ^c   Corti, Paola ^a   Pogliani, Enrico M ^a   Uderzo, Cornelio ^a  

^a SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Riuniti Hospital   (Italy)

^c HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apheresis; Extracorporeal photochemotherapy; Graft versus host disease; Mononuclear cell collection; Photopheresis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL COUNT; CELL THERAPY; CHILD; CHRONIC GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACORPOREAL PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; HUMAN; MONOCYTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOPHERESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33947422891     PISSN: 17449979     EISSN: 17449987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-9987.2007.00421.x     Document Type: Article

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