Oral arsenic trioxide therapy for acute promyelocytic leukemia before and after liver transplantation for hepatitis B virus-related liver failure [3]

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 771-772

  Au, Wing Yan ^a   Liu, Chi Leung ^a   Tam, Sidney ^a   Fong, Bonnie M W ^a   Shek, Tony W ^a   Hui, Chee Kin ^a   Kwong, Yok Lam ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; ASCORBIC ACID; CIPROFLOXACIN; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; ETHAMBUTOL; IDARUBICIN; ISONIAZID; LAMIVUDINE; MITOXANTRONE; RETINOIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; TACROLIMUS; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; CADAVER DONOR; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKEMIA RELAPSE; LEUKEMIA REMISSION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUS REACTIVATION;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ARSENICALS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, PROMYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; OXIDES; RNA, VIRAL; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

EID: 34548331731     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-007-0318-2     Document Type: Letter

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