World Health Organization-defined eosinophilic disorders: 2012 update on diagnosis, risk stratification, and management

American Journal of Hematology

Volumn 87, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 903-914

  Gotlib, Jason ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEMTUZUMAB; ALPHA INTERFERON; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CLADRIBINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; CYTARABINE; ETOPOSIDE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROXYUREA; IMATINIB; MEPOLIZUMAB; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2B; PLACEBO; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA RECEPTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR; PREDNISONE; RESLIZUMAB; VINCRISTINE;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CHRONIC EOSINOPHILIC LEUKEMIA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLONAL VARIATION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CYTOGENETICS; CYTOPENIA; DEPRESSION; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; EOSINOPHILIA; EOSINOPHILIC ESOPHAGITIS; EOSINOPHILIC LEUKEMIA; FATIGUE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FOLLOW UP; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPEREOSINOPHILIA; HYPEREOSINOPHILIC SYNDROME; HYPERSPLENISM; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INCIDENCE; LEUKAPHERESIS; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MONOTHERAPY; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SPLENECTOMY; T LYMPHOCYTE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TISSUE INJURY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EOSINOPHILIA; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; RISK; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84865376574     PISSN: 03618609     EISSN: 10968652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajh.23293     Document Type: Article

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