The autoimmune manifestations associated with myelodysplastic syndrome respond to 5-azacytidine: A report on three cases

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 153, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 664-665

  Pilorge, Sylvain ^a   Doleris, Luc Moulonguet ^b   Dreyfus, François ^a   Park, Sophie ^a  

^a Université Paris V René Descartes APHP ^*  (France)

^b HÔPITAL AMBROISE PARÉ   (France)

Author keywords

5 azacytidine; Auto immune disease; MDS; New drugs for leukaemia; Therapy

Indexed keywords

AZACITIDINE; AZATHIOPRINE; COLCHICINE; DANAZOL; DAPSONE; ERYTHROPOIETIN; METHOTREXATE; NOVEL ERYTHROPOIESIS STIMULATING PROTEIN; RITUXIMAB; ROMIPLOSTIM; STEROID; THALIDOMIDE;

ACUTE FEBRILE NEUTROPHILIC DERMATOSIS; ADULT; AGED; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; IRIDOCYCLITIS; JOINT SWELLING; LETTER; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG TOXICITY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; PANCYTOPENIA; PHLEBITIS; POLYARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REFRACTORY ANEMIA WITH EXCESS BLASTS; REFRACTORY CYTOPENIA WITH MULTILINEAGE DYSPLASIA; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SKIN BIOPSY; TREATMENT DURATION;

AGED; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; AZACITIDINE; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES;

EID: 79955708926     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: 13652141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2010.08557.x     Document Type: Letter

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