Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor therapy is associated with a reduced incidence of acute rejection episodes or allograft vasculopathy in heart transplant recipients

Autor:	Sebastian Leon, William F. Fearon, Thu A. Vu, Hannah A. Valantine, M.X. Pham, Francois Haddad, Sharon A. Hunt, Tobias Deuse, Sonja Schrepfer, Bojan Vrtovec
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Adult Graft Rejection Male medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors medicine.medical_treatment Coronary Artery Disease Gastroenterology California Leukocyte Count Risk Factors Internal medicine White blood cell Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor medicine Odds Ratio Humans Immunologic Factors Aged Retrospective Studies Heart transplantation Transplantation Leukopenia Ejection fraction Chi-Square Distribution business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Incidence Odds ratio Middle Aged medicine.disease Allografts Surgery Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor medicine.anatomical_structure Treatment Outcome Heart failure Acute Disease Multivariate Analysis Heart Transplantation Female medicine.symptom business
Zdroj:	Transplantation proceedings. 45(6)
ISSN:	1873-2623
Popis:	Background We evaluated the potential effects of granulocyte colony-simulating factor (G- CSF) on the incidence of rejection and allograft vasculopathy in heart transplant recipients. Methods Of 247 patients undergoing heart transplantation from 2000 to 2007, 52 (21%) developed leukopenia (white blood cell [WBC]
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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