Prompt and sustained response of a steroid-refractory autoimmune hemolytic anemia to a rituximab-based therapy in a chronic lymphocytic leukemia patient

Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 741-743

  Gentile, Massimo ^a   Lucia, Eugenio ^a   Iorio, Caterina ^a   Vigna, Ernesto ^a   Mazzone, Carla ^a   Morelli, Rosellina ^a   Bisconte, Maria Grazia ^a   Gentile, Carlo ^a   Morabito, Fortunato ^a  

^a Azienda Ospedaliera di Cosenza   (Italy)

Author keywords

AIHA; CLL; Rituximab; Therapy

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; BILIRUBIN; CHLORAMBUCIL; CHLORPHENIRAMINE MALEATE; COMPLEMENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; FLUCONAZOLE; HAPTOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PARACETAMOL; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; STEROID;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; COOMBS TEST; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; INFECTION; JAUNDICE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENOMEGALY; TACHYCARDIA;

ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, AUTOIMMUNE; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC, B-CELL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 47549088660     PISSN: 03445704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00280-007-0651-0     Document Type: Article

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