Clinical Use of Erythropoietic Stimulating Agents in Myelodysplastic Syndromes

A randomized phase II trial of azacitidine +/- epoetin-β in lower-risk myelodysplastic syndromes resistant to erythropoietic stimulating agents.

The efficacy of azacitidine in patients with anemia and with lower-risk myelodysplastic syndromes, if relapsing after or resistant to erythropoietic stimulating agents, and the benefit of combining these agents to azacitidine in this setting are not well known. We prospectively compared the outcomes of patients, all of them having the characteristics of this subset of lower-risk myelodysplastic...

Are somatic mutations predictive of response to erythropoiesis stimulating agents in lower risk myelodysplastic syndromes?

Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents are not associated with increased risk of thrombosis in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes.

BACKGROUND There are limited reports of thrombosis among myelodysplastic syndrome patients exposed to erythropoiesis stimulating agents. It is not clear whether erythropoiesis stimulating agents are associated with an increased risk of thrombosis in myelodysplastic syndromes, as they are among patients with solid tumors. DESIGN AND METHODS The association between use of erythropoiesis stimula...

Patient and physician characteristics associated with erythropoiesis-stimulating agent use in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes.

Patient and physician characteristics associated with use of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents in myelodysplastic syndrome patients have not yet been described. Myelodysplastic syndrome patients diagnosed from 2001 to 2005 were identified from the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results-Medicare database. Multivariate regressions examined the association between patient and physician characte...

Clinical and prognostic characterization of myelodysplastic syndromes

The myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) provide a clinical model for evaluating the evolution of a relatively indolent malignancy into one which is frankly aggressive. The morbidity and mortality in this myeloid clonal hemopathy relate to either marrow dysfunction associated with ineffective hematopoiesis and its peripheral blood cytopenias or to disease evolution into a variant of acute myeloid le...