Insights into defibrotide: An updated review

Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 763-772

  Morabito, F ^a,b   Gentile, M ^b   Gay, F ^c   Bringhen, S ^c   Mazzone, C ^b   Vigna, E ^b   Musto, P ^d   Di Raimondo, F ^e   Palumbo, A ^c  

^a Azienda Ospedaliera   (Italy)

^b Azienda Ospedaliera di Cosenza   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d CROB Rionero in Vulture ^*  (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Defibrotide; Endothelium; Neoplasia; Sinusoidal obstruction syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTITHROMBIN III; DEFIBROTIDE; GEMTUZUMAB OZOGAMICIN; GROWTH FACTOR; HEPARANASE; HEPARIN; MELPHALAN; PLACEBO; PREDNISONE; THALIDOMIDE; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ANTICOAGULATION; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; BLEEDING; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ERYTHEMA; FACE RASH; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; LIVER SINUSOID; LIVER VEIN OBSTRUCTION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NONHUMAN; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PRURITUS; RELAPSE; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN MANIFESTATION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SUPERFICIAL THROMBOPHLEBITIS; SWEATING; TACHYCARDIA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TUMOR CELL;

HEPATIC VENO-OCCLUSIVE DISEASE; HUMANS; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 67649094520     PISSN: 14712598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/14712590903008507     Document Type: Review

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