## BACKGROUND. The prognosis of patients with high risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) (i.e., refractory anemia with excess of blasts [RAEB] and refractory anemia with excess of blasts in transformation [RAEB-t]) usually is poor. The combination of fludarabine, cytarabine, and granulocyte-colony
Treatment of anemia in myelodysplastic syndrome with darbepoetin and granulocyte colony stimulating factor
β Scribed by Shelonitda Rose; Yaqoob Ali; Barbara Maffei; Parvin Saidi
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 237 KB
- Volume
- 82
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0361-8609
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