Effect of Up-front Daclizumab When Combined with Steroids for the Treatment of Acute Graft- Vs.-host Disease: Results of a Randomized Trial
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Short title: Randomized trial of daclizumab for acute GVHD
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Effect of up-front daclizumab when combined with steroids for the treatment of acute graft-versus-host disease: results of a randomized trial.
The standard initial therapy for acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is corticosteroids. Daclizumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody against the interleukin 2 (IL-2) receptor expressed on activated T lymphocytes. Because of daclizumab's favorable toxicity profile and response rate in steroid-resistant GVHD, a multicenter, double-blinded, randomized study of corticosteroids with or without ...
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تاریخ انتشار 2004