Oral cryotherapy can significantly reduce oral mucositis but not acute GVHD incidence in Flu/Mel conditioning allo-SCT

Bone Marrow Transplant. 2012 May;47(5):739-41. doi: 10.1038/bmt.2011.156. Epub 2011 Jul 25.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Cryotherapy / methods*
  • Female
  • Graft vs Host Disease / etiology*
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation / adverse effects*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Melphalan / adverse effects*
  • Middle Aged
  • Stomatitis / prevention & control*
  • Transplantation Conditioning / adverse effects*
  • Transplantation, Homologous
  • Vidarabine / adverse effects
  • Vidarabine / analogs & derivatives*

Substances

  • Vidarabine
  • fludarabine
  • Melphalan