The management of iron overload in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (alloHSCT) recipients: Where do we stand?

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 577-586

  Sivgin, Serdar ^a   Eser, Bulent ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

AlloHSCT; Ferritin; Iron chelators; Iron overload

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CYCLOSPORIN; DEFERASIROX; DEFERIPRONE; DEFEROXAMINE; FERRITIN; FREE RADICAL; HEPCIDIN; HEPCIDIN AGONIST; IRON CHELATING AGENT; MINIHEPCIDIN; TACROLIMUS; TRANSFERRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; AGRANULOCYTOSIS; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTHROPATHY; CARDIOTOXICITY; CHRONIC GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIARRHEA; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG POTENTIATION; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IRON CHELATION; IRON METABOLISM; IRON OVERLOAD; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER TOXICITY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MUCORMYCOSIS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHLEBOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; RELAPSE; REVIEW; SUPERCONDUCTING SUSCEPTOMETRY; TISSUE INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; DEFEROXAMINE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HEMATOLOGY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IRON; IRON OVERLOAD; PHLEBOTOMY; SIDEROPHORES; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 84877925016     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: 14320584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-013-1682-8     Document Type: Review

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