Allogeneic transplantation in multiple myeloma

In this review the authors present a state of art tretment of multiple myeloma.High dose chemo-radiotherapy followed by autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation has been show to be superior a conventional chemotherapy and a double transplantation. The authors discuss too, the allogeneic transplantation with reduced intensity conditioning, allogeneic versus tandem autologous, results the patients long term outcome and a approach about the use of donor lymphocytes, anti thimocyte globulin and a overview of post transplant therapies.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Majolino,Ignazio, Severino,Alessandro
Format: Digital revista
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia e Terapia Celular 2009
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-84842009000800011
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