Diagnosis and treatment of primary myelodysplastic syndromes in adults: Recommendations from the European LeukemiaNet

Blood

Volumn 122, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 2943-2964

  Malcovati, Luca ^a,b   Hellström Lindberg, Eva ^c   Bowen, David ^d   Adès, Lionel ^e   Cermak, Jaroslav ^f   Del Cañizo, Consuelo ^g   Della Porta, Matteo G ^a   Fenaux, Pierre ^e   Gattermann, Norbert ^h   Germing, Ulrich ^h   Jansen, Joop H ⁱ   Mittelman, Moshe ^j   Mufti, Ghulam ^k   Platzbecker, Uwe ^l   Sanz, Guillermo F ^m   Selleslag, Dominik ⁿ   Skov Holm, Mette ^o   Stauder, Reinhard ^p   Symeonidis, Argiris ^q   Van De Loosdrecht, Arjan A ^r   De Witte, Theo ⁱ   Cazzola, Mario ^a,b   more..

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d St James's Institute of Oncology   (United Kingdom)

^e AVICENNE HOSPITAL   (France)

^f INSTITUTE OF HEMATOLOGY AND BLOOD TRANSFUSION   (Czech Republic)

^g HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^h HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

ⁱ RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^j TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^k KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^m HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

ⁿ General Hospital St Jan   (Belgium)

^o AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^p INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^q UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^r VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AZACITIDINE; BUSULFAN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; DEFEROXAMINE; ELTROMBOPAG; ETOPOSIDE; FLUDARABINE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HEMOGLOBIN; IDARUBICIN; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 11; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 3; LENALIDOMIDE; MELPHALAN; MITOXANTRONE; NOVEL ERYTHROPOIESIS STIMULATING PROTEIN; PLACEBO; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN; ROMIPLOSTIM; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; TOPOTECAN; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ADVANCED CANCER; AGE; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BLAST CELL; BLEEDING; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER REGRESSION; CHELATION THERAPY; CHROMOSOME 5Q; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; CONSOLIDATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CYTOGENETICS; CYTOPENIA; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FEVER; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GENE DELETION; HEART DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INDUCTION CHEMOTHERAPY; INFECTION; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; INTERNATIONAL PROGNOSTIC SCORING SYSTEM; IRON CHELATION; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKEMIA; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MONOTHERAPY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; NEUTROPENIA; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REFRACTORY ANEMIA; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOMATIC MUTATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WHOLE BODY RADIATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84888240132     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2013-03-492884     Document Type: Review

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