Rituximab in hematopoietic cell transplantation

Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 971-982

  Arai, Sally ^a   Miklos, David B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

B cell malignancies; Graft versus host disease; Hematopoietic cell transplantation; Rituximab

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUDARABINE; FOLINIC ACID; IFOSFAMIDE; MELPHALAN; METHOTREXATE; MITOXANTRONE; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; VINCRISTINE;

ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; AUTOLOGOUS HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW PURGING; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUTROPENIA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTTRANSPLANT LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SIDE EFFECT; SURVIVAL TIME; VIRUS REACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 77952192951     PISSN: 14712598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/14712598.2010.485982     Document Type: Review

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