Positive impact of chronic graft-versus-host disease on the outcome of patients with de novo myelodysplastic syndrome after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation: A single-center analysis of 115 patients

European Journal of Haematology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 137-146

  Hiramoto, Nobuhiro ^a   Kurosawa, Saiko ^a   Tajima, Kinuko ^a   Okinaka, Keiji ^a   Tada, Kohei ^a   Kobayashi, Yujin ^a   Shinohara, Akihito ^a   Inoue, Yoshitaka ^a   Ueda, Ryosuke ^a   Tanaka, Takashi ^a   Kim, Sung Won ^a   Yamashita, Takuya ^a   Heike, Yuji ^a   Fukuda, Takahiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation; Graft versus host disease; Graft versus leukemia effect; Myelodysplastic syndrome

Indexed keywords

BUSULFAN; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CLADRIBINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; FLUDARABINE; METHOTREXATE; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CHRONIC GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; CYTOGENETICS; DYSPLASIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT VERSUS LEUKEMIA EFFECT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINEAGE DYSPLASIA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYELOABLATIVE CONDITIONING; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REDUCED INTENSITY CONDITIONING; REFRACTORY ANEMIA WITH EXCESS BLASTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT DURATION; WHOLE BODY RADIATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC CELL TRANSPLANTATION; GRAFT-VERSUS-HOST DISEASE; GRAFT-VERSUS-LEUKEMIA EFFECT; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME;

ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; PREMEDICATION; RECURRENCE; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892676439     PISSN: 09024441     EISSN: 16000609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejh.12214     Document Type: Article

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