Sirolimus, tacrolimus and low-dose methotrexate based graft-versus-host disease prophylaxis after non-ablative or reduced intensity conditioning in related and unrelated donor allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 663-670

  Ceberio, Izaskun ^a,b   Devlin, Sean M ^a   Sauter, Craig ^a,c   Barker, Juliet N ^a,c   Castro Malaspina, Hugo ^a,c   Giralt, Sergio ^a,c   Ponce, Doris M ^a,c   Lechner, Lauren ^a   Maloy, Molly A ^a   Goldberg, Jenna D ^a,c   Perales, Miguel Angel ^a,c  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra   (Spain)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

graft versus host disease; non myeloablative conditioning; reduced intensity; Sirolimus

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHOTREXATE; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING; UNRELATED DONORS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIROLIMUS; TACROLIMUS; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; UNRELATED DONORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924666861     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: 10292403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10428194.2014.930851     Document Type: Article

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