1. Oral mucositis after tacrolimus/sirolimus or cyclosporine/methotrexate as graft‐versus‐host disease prophylaxis.
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Garming Legert, Karin, Ringdén, Olle, Remberger, Mats, Törlén, Johan, Mattsson, Jonas, and Dahllöf, Göran
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GRAFT versus host disease prevention , *STOMATITIS , *RAPAMYCIN , *TIME , *CONVALESCENCE , *CYCLOSPORINE , *METHOTREXATE , *SEVERITY of illness index , *HEMATOPOIETIC stem cell transplantation , *STATISTICAL sampling , *TACROLIMUS - Abstract
Objectives: To determine whether treatment with tacrolimus plus sirolimus (Tac/Sir) as a prophylaxis for graft‐versus‐host disease worsens severe oral mucositis and delays healing compared to cyclosporine plus methotrexate (CsA/Mtx) following haematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Subjects and Methods: The study comprised 141 patients: 73 randomized to receive Tac/Sir and 68 to receive CsA/Mtx. The oral mucositis assessment scale and toxicity grading according to WHO were used to assess the severity, peak and duration of oral mucositis from the day −3 to day 24 post‐transplant. Results: Eighty‐seven patients developed oral mucositis in the first 24 days post‐transplant. No significant difference in oral mucositis severity between the Tac/Sir and CsA/Mtx groups was observed. The peak oral mucositis score occurred on day 10 in both groups. Although oral mucositis scores had returned to baseline in the CsA/Mtx group on day 24 post‐transplant, no significant difference compared with the Tac/Sir group was found. Conclusions: The introduction of tacrolimus/sirolimus as a graft‐versus‐host disease prophylaxis in haematopoietic stem cell transplantation increased neither the incidence nor severity of oral mucositis compared with cyclosporine/methotrexate. Furthermore, oral mucositis healing was not prolonged and followed the same time pattern as cyclosporine/methotrexate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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