Katharina Kriegsmann, Max Bittrich, Sandra Sauer, Carola Tietze-Stolley, Kamran Movassaghi, Matthias Grube, Vladan Vucinic, Daniela Wehler, Andreas Burchert, Martin Schmidt-Hieber, Andreas Rank, Heinz A Dürk, Bernd Metzner, Christoph Kimmich, Marcus Hentrich, Christian Kunz, Frank Hartmann, Cyrus Khandanpour, Maike de Wit, Udo Holtick, Michael Kiehl, Andrea Stoltefuß, Alexander Kiani, Ralph Naumann, Christian W Scholz, Hans-Joachim Tischler, Martin Görner, Franziska Brand, Martin Ehmer, Nicolaus Kröger
INTRODUCTION: Successful mobilization and collection of peripheral hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are necessary for lymphoma patients eligible for myeloablative chemotherapy with subsequent autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT). Albeit G-CSF alone or combined with chemotherapy is well-established methods for HSC mobilization, up to 40% of the patients fail to mobilize (poor mobilizer, PM). Plerixafor (PLX) is commonly used in PM patients resulting in increased migration of HSCs into peripheral blood and thus improves the collection outcome...
October 2023: Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy