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Acute and chronic Graft-versus-host disease after hematopoietic stem cell trans...
Funke,Vaneuza A. M.; Moreira,Maria Claudia Rodrigues; Vigorito,Afonso CelsoABSTRACT graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is one of the main complications of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, affecting about 50% to 80% of the patients. Acute GVHD and its clinical manifestations are discussed in this article, as well as the new NIH criteria for the diagnosis and classification of chronic GVHD. Therapy for both chronic and acute GVHD is an important field of discussion, as there is no...
Polimorfismo genético da glutationa S-transferase mu1 e theta 1 em pacientes co...
Funke,Vaneuza A. M.
Therapy of chronic myeloid leukemia with imatinib mesylate in Brazil: a study o...
Funke,Vaneuza A. M.; Medeiro,Carlos R.; Lima,Denise H.; Setúbal,Daniela C.; Bitencourt,Marco A.; Bonfim,Carmem M.; Ruiz,Jefferson; Zanis Neto,JoséChronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) is a clonal disease characterized by balanced translocation between chromosomes 9 and 22 (Philadelphia chromosome). The resulting BCR-ABL gene has tyrosine kinase activity which stimulates cellular growth. Imatinib mesylate is a potent and specific inhibitor of all ABL related kinases. Ninety-eight CML patients were treated with imatinib mesylate from October 2000 to January 2003....