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Impact of palifermin on intestinal mucositis of HSCT recipients after BEAM

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The matched-control study failed to show a clinical relevant impact of palifermin on intestinal mucositis, although there was a reduced inflammatory response and less febrile neutropenia among patients who had no bacteraemia.

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    A H E Herbers, W J F M van der Velden, J P Donnelly & N M A Blijlevens

  2. Department of Health Evidence, Nijmegen Institute for Infection, Inflammation and Immunity (N4i), Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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AHEH and NMAB conceived the study, wrote and reviewed the manuscript. JPD and WJFMvdV helped to draft the manuscript. AFJdH performed the statistical analysis.

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Herbers, A., van der Velden, W., de Haan, A. et al. Impact of palifermin on intestinal mucositis of HSCT recipients after BEAM. Bone Marrow Transplant 49, 8–10 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2013.118

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