Overview

This handbook is a therapeutic manual designed as a quick, practical guide and reference for house officers, fellows, pharmacists and nurses on the bone marrow transplant unit. Indications, complications, drug doses and approaches to clinical management problems are emphasized. Diseases requiring bone marrow transplants are reviewed along with patient evaluation, marrow processing, engraftment relapse and general patient care.

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Author:   Richard K. Burt ,  H. Joachim Deeg ,  Scott Thomas Lothian ,  George W. Santos
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Landes Bioscience
Edition:   LANDES ed
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9781570595608

ISBN 10:   1570595607
Pages:   608
Publication Date:   01 January 1998
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

BMT unit; patient and donor evaluation; BMT from unrelated donors; transfusions; haematopoietic progenitor stem cells; purging; marrow processing; conditioning (preparative) regimens; total body irradiation; MHC and BMT; aplastic anaemia; acute myeloid leukaemia - AML; adult acute lymphoblastic leukaemia; chronic myeloid leukaemia - CML; chronic lymphocytic leukaemia; multiple myeloma; BMT in lymphomas; adult solid tumours; BMT for paediatric malignancy; hereditary immune; BMT for sickle cell anaemia; chimerism and clonality; graft failure; minimal residual disease; relapse after BMT; diagnosis and management of complications related to long-term venous access devices; nutritional support in BMT; pain and BMT; cardiovascular support; respiratory support; disorders of renal function and electrolytes; growth factors; infection of prophylaxis; invasive fungal infections in BMT; virus infections in BMT; graft-versus-host disease; graft-versus-leukaemia effect of allogeneic BMT; regimen related toxicity; delayed complications; outpatient management; gene therapy; medications. (Part contents).

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Richard K. Burt Northwestern University, Chicago. H. Joachim Deeg Fred Hutchinson Cancer Centre, Seatlle, Washington. Scott Thomas Lothian, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago. George W. Santos, Johns Hopkins University, Balitmore, USA.

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