Article
Collection of peripheral blood hematopoietic progenitors (PBHP) from patients with severe aplastic anemia (SAA) after prolonged administration of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor.
Blood - 1 Sept 1993
Bacigalupo A, Piaggio G, Podestá M, Van Lint M T, Valbonesi M, Lercari G, Mori P G, Pasino M, Franchini E, Rivabella L
Abstract excerpt
The aim of this study was to test whether prolonged administration of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) would allow the collection by leukapheresis of PBHP in patients with SAA. For this purpose, nine SAA patients, 7 to 46 years old, six of whom were enrolled at diagnosis of their disease and three after previous immunosuppression had failed, were treated with antilymphocyte globulin (ALG) (day 1 to...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Anemia, Aplastic
- Antigens, CD
- Antigens, Surface
- Antilymphocyte Serum
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Cyclosporine
- Female
- Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor
