| Literature DB >> 17320951 |
Pellegrino Musto1, Potito Rosario Scalzulli, Elisabetta Terruzzi, Fausto Rossini, Pasquale Iacopino, Giuseppe Messina, Roberto Guariglia, Giuseppe Pietrantuono, Oreste Villani, Fiorella D'Auria, Antonietta Falcone, Grazia Sanpaolo, Maria Rosa Valvano, Enrico Maria Pogliani, Fortunato Morabito.
Abstract
We investigated the effects of a single s.c. injection of peg-filgrastim in 32 patients with multiple myeloma who underwent autologous stem cell transplantation (AuSCT) as first line treatment. For comparison, 32 myeloma patients with similar characteristics and receiving standard daily administration of filgrastim were matched. Overall, there were no statistically significant differences between peg-filgrastim and filgrastim in terms of tolerability, marrow recovery, severity of neutropenia, incidence and duration of febrile neutropenia, documented infections and transfusions. However, some favourable trends or effects in favour of peg-filgrastim were observed. This was confirmed by a review of the published papers about this topic.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17320951 DOI: 10.1016/j.leukres.2007.01.008
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Leuk Res ISSN: 0145-2126 Impact factor: 3.156