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Novel mechanism of G-CSF refractoriness in patients with severe congenital neutropenia
8 Sept 2004
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Severe congenital neutropenia (SCN) is a rare disease diagnosed at or soon after birth, characterized by a myeloid maturation arrest in the bone marrow, ineffective neutrophil production, and recurrent infections. Most patients respond to treatment with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), and the majority harbor mutations in the neutrophil elastase gene. In the subset of patients with SCN transforming...
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