TRANSFUSION AND APHERESIS SCIENCE, cilt.48, sa.3, ss.315-320, 2013 (SCI-Expanded)
Objectives and aim: Patients affected by hematological malignancies can often benefit from high dose chemotherapy followed by peripheral blood stem cells (PBSCs) transplantation. Different strategies have been used to mobilize an adequate number of PBSC, including granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) alone or chemotherapy plus G-CSF. In this study, we aimed to compare the efficacy profile of different G-CSF agents including filgrastim (Neupogen (R)), biosimilar filgrastim (Leucostim (R)) and Lenograstim (Granocyte (R)) on CD34(+) mobilization in patients who underwent autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (autoHSCT).