Can recombinant thrombomodulin play a preventive role for veno-occlusive disease after haematopoietic stem cell transplantation?

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1118-1120

  Nomura, Shosaku ^a   Ozasa, Ryotaro ^a   Nakanishi, Takahisa ^a   Fujita, Shinya ^a   Miyaji, Michihiko ^a   Mori, Shinichiro ^a   Yokoi, Takashi ^a   Ito, Tomoki ^a   Ishii, Kazuyoshi ^b  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kishiwada City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; HEPARIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B1 PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR INHIBITOR; RECOMBINANT THROMBOMODULIN; THROMBOPLASTIN; TISSUE FACTOR PATHWAY INHIBITOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BLOOD CLOTTING; CAPILLARY LEAK SYNDROME; CELL ADHESION; CELL DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MECHANISM; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LETTER; PATHOGENESIS; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PULMONARY VASCULAR DISEASE; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TREATMENT DURATION; UPREGULATION; VASCULAR DISEASE; VEIN OCCLUSION;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CYTOKINES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMOSTASIS; HUMANS; INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SYNDROME; THROMBOMODULIN; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 79958164138     PISSN: 03406245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1160/TH10-12-0802     Document Type: Letter

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