Article
Ruxolitinib for Glucocorticoid-Refractory Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease
2021-07-14
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND Chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), a major complication of allogeneic stem-cell transplantation, becomes glucocorticoid-refractory or glucocorticoid-dependent in approximately 50% of patients. Robust data from phase 3 randomized studies evaluating second-line therapy for chronic GVHD are lacking. In retrospective surveys, ruxolitinib, a Janus kinase (JAK1-JAK2) inhibitor, showed potential efficac...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 2e840e5f-43f3-50f2-9628-6e158877fd7e
- DOI
- 10.1056/nejmoa2033122
