Factors associated with the efficiency of PBSC collection in POEMS syndrome patients undergoing autologous PBSC transplantation

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1010-1012

  Shimizu, N ^a   Nakaseko, C ^a   Sakaida, E ^a   Ohwada, C ^a   Takeuchi, M ^a   Kawaguchi, T ^a   Tsukamoto, S ^a   Sakai, S ^a   Takeda, Y ^a   Abe, D ^a   Yokote, K ^b   Iseki, T ^a   Kanai, K ^b   Misawa, S ^b   Kuwabara, S ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; MELPHALAN; STEROID; THALIDOMIDE; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; APHERESIS; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTOLOGOUS PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CD34 SELECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; ENGRAFTMENT; ENGRAFTMENT SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGICAL PROCEDURE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; MALE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL COLLECTION; POEMS SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SPLEEN SIZE; SPLENOMEGALY; STEM CELL MOBILIZATION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; POEMS SYNDROME; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 84863727217     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: 14765365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2011.211     Document Type: Letter

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