Mucositis is still a leading side effect of high dose chemotherapy and irradiation delivered in autologous and allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. In this double blind randomised study, we tested the efficacy of sucralfate for the prevention of mucositis induced by such conditioning treatments. Treatment was started one day before conditioning regimen and patients were prospectively evaluated. The main endpoint was severe mucositis that was more frequent in the placebo group than in the sucralfate group (47% vs. 29%, P = 0.07). This trend was confirmed after adjustment on total body irradiation (TBI) (P = 0.06), the sole stratification parameter. Interestingly, patients receiving sucralfate showed a significant reduction of diarrhoea (25%) vs. 53%, P = 0.005). Overall, the preventive administration of sucralfate appears to be an effective procedure to diminish the occurrence of severe oral and intestinal mucositis in patients treated by high dose chemotherapy alone or combined with TBI before bone marrow transplantation.
Objetivos: comparar las incidencia de enfermedad injerto contra huésped aguda (EICHa), EICH crónico (EICHc), recaída, mortalidad no asociada a recaída y supervivencia global al primer y tercer año postrasplante en pacientes sometidos a trasplante alogénico de progenitores hematopoyéticos de donante HLA idénticos intrafamiliares o no emparentados, que recibieron esquema de profilaxis EICH ciclofosfamida postrasplante, tacrolimus y micofenolato mofetil (Cy-post-TACMMF) versus otros esquemas de profilaxis para EICH.
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