Abstract | BACKGROUND: METHODS: Four patients [two males, two females, mean age 65 years (range 60-69 years)] received high-dose chemotherapy followed by autologous stem cell transplantation. Partial small bowel resection has been performed in three patients. RESULTS: All four patients completed the mobilization and leucopheresis procedures successfully and subsequently received conditioning chemotherapy and transplantation. Engraftment occurred in all patients. No major non-haematological toxicity or transplantation-related mortality was observed. One patient has ongoing complete remission 32 months after transplantation. Three patients died from relapse within few months after autologous stem cell transplantation. CONCLUSIONS:
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Authors | A Al-Toma, W H M Verbeek, O J Visser, K C Kuijpers, J J Oudejans, H C Kluin-Nelemans, C J J Mulder, P C Huijgens |
Journal | Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver
(Dig Liver Dis)
Vol. 39
Issue 7
Pg. 634-41
(Jul 2007)
ISSN: 1590-8658 [Print] Netherlands |
PMID | 17531561
(Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)
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Topics |
- Aged
- Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols
(administration & dosage)
- Celiac Disease
(complications, therapy)
- Feasibility Studies
- Female
- Humans
- Ileum
(pathology)
- Lymphoma, T-Cell
(complications, etiology, therapy)
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Neoplasm Recurrence, Local
- Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation
- Remission Induction
- Transplantation Conditioning
- Transplantation, Autologous
- Treatment Outcome
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