Reduced-intensity cord blood transplantation without prior remission induction therapy induces durable remission in adult patients with relapsed acute leukemia after the first allogeneic transplantation

European Journal of Haematology

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 268-271

  Ueki, Toshimitsu ^a   Sumi, Masahiko ^a   Sato, Keijiro ^a   Shimizu, Ikuo ^a   Akahane, Daigo ^a   Ueno, Mayumi ^a   Ichikawa, Naoaki ^a   Nakao, Shinji ^b   Kobayashi, Hikaru ^a  

^a NAGANO RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSULFAN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; DOXORUBICIN; FLUDARABINE; MELPHALAN; METHOTREXATE; MITOXANTRONE; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER RELAPSE; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; LETTER; LIVER VENOOCCLUSIVE DISEASE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; PRE ENGRAFTMENT IMMUNE REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALVAGE THERAPY; SINUSOIDAL OBSTRUCTION SYNDROME; SKIN PAIN; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS INFECTION; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; GRAFT VS LEUKEMIA EFFECT; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; RECURRENCE; REMISSION INDUCTION; TACROLIMUS; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951588930     PISSN: 09024441     EISSN: 16000609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0609.2010.01555.x     Document Type: Letter

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