Publications by authors named "Kouji Iwato"
A 55-year-old man treated with polycythemia vera visited our hospital, complaining of left abdominal pain and dyspnea. He had received minocycline infusions three weeks earlier for mycoplasma pneumonia. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography revealed pulmonary embolism and splenic infarction.
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- The correct label should be "Allogeneic HCT (n=51)".
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- Rituximab improves outcomes for B-cell lymphoma patients, but relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) remains challenging due to poor prognosis.
- A study analyzed 162 R/R MCL patients who underwent either autologous or allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) from 2004 to 2014, showing median overall survival of 48 months for autologous HCT and 65 months for allogeneic HCT.
- Risk factors for overall survival included older age, higher comorbidity scores, and specific treatment regimens for autologous HCT, while better performance status and longer diagnosis-to-treatment intervals were important for allogeneic HCT, suggesting a need