New treatments for myelodysplastic syndromes

Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  D'Alò, Francesco ^a   Greco, Mariangela ^a   Criscuolo, Marianna ^a   Voso, Maria Teresa ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 PHENYLBUTYRIC ACID; 5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; AZACITIDINE; BELINOSTAT; CLOFARABINE; CYTARABINE; DEFERASIROX; DRUG METABOLITE; ENTINOSTAT; ERYTHROPOIETIN; EZATIOSTAT; FR 901229; GAMMA GLUTAMYL S BENZYLCYSTEINYLPHENYLGLYCINE DIETHYL ESTER; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HEMOPOIETIC GROWTH FACTOR; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; LENALIDOMIDE; MOCETINOSTAT; NOVEL ERYTHROPOIESIS STIMULATING PROTEIN; PANOBINOSTAT; PROTEIN FARNESYLTRANSFERASE INHIBITOR; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN; RETINOIC ACID; ROMIDEPSIN; ROMIPLOSTIM; THROMBOPOIETIN RECEPTOR AGONIST; TIPIFARNIB; TLK 117; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID; VORINOSTAT;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; AGE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CARDIOTOXICITY; CHROMOSOME DELETION 5; COMORBIDITY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ERYTHROPOIESIS; FATIGUE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IRON CHELATION; IRON OVERLOAD; KARYOTYPE; LIVER DISEASE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; ORGAN INJURY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; QT PROLONGATION; RASH; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 79952748607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20353006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4084/MJHID.2010.021     Document Type: Review

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