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SUBMITTER: Armand P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3358569 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Armand Philippe P Sainvil Marie-Michele MM Kim Haesook T HT Rhodes Joanna J Cutler Corey C Ho Vincent T VT Koreth John J Alyea Edwin P EP Neufeld Ellis J EJ Kwong Raymond Y RY Soiffer Robert J RJ Antin Joseph H JH
American journal of hematology 20120404 6
A growing body of evidence suggests that iron overload is associated with inferior outcomes after myeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). However, all of those studies used surrogate markers of iron overload, especially serum ferritin, and most had a retrospective design. We conducted a prospective observational study in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome or acute leukemia undergoing myeloablative HSCT. Forty-five patients who were followed for over 1 year, w ...[more]