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Detection of Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis in Haematological Malignancy Patients by using Lateral-flow Technology
Published on: March 22, 2012
[Anemia in lymphoma]
Thibault de La Motte Rouge1, Maurice Schneider
1Département de Gynécologie, Institut Gustave-Roussy, 39 rue Camille-Desmoulins, 94 800 Villejuif. tybdlmr@yahoo.fr
Abstract:
Anaemia is frequently associated with lymphoma. Many causes are implicated and can sometimes be associated to each other so that the level of haemoglobin is often very low. In follicular lymphoma, the level of haemoglobin remains an independent predictive prognostic factor. Likewise, anaemia seems correlated to survival for both Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. However, therapeutic strategies to control anaemia remain somewhat unsatisfactory. Thus, recombinant erythropoietin might be an effective drug to increase the haemoglobin rate, limit the transfusional risk and improve patients' quality of life.
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