Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 15, Issue 9 , Pages 1060-1065 , September 2009

The Department of Veterans Affairs Nutritional Status Classification Scheme Allows for Rapid Assessment of Nutritional Status Prior to Autologous Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation and Identifies Patients at High Risk of Transplant-Related Complications

  • Juan J. Toro

      Affiliations

    • South Texas Veterans Health Care System, Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital, San Antonio, Texas
    • The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence and reprint requests: Juan J. Toro, MD, MSci, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Department of Medicine, Mail Code 7882, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229.
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  • David J. Haile

      Affiliations

    • South Texas Veterans Health Care System, Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital, San Antonio, Texas
    • ,
  • Ju-Hsien Chao

      Affiliations

    • South Texas Veterans Health Care System, Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital, San Antonio, Texas
    • ,
  • Deanna Schneider

      Affiliations

    • South Texas Veterans Health Care System, Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital, San Antonio, Texas
    • ,
  • Pamela S. Jewell

      Affiliations

    • South Texas Veterans Health Care System, Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital, San Antonio, Texas
    • ,
  • Shuko Lee

      Affiliations

    • South Texas Veterans Health Care System, Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital, San Antonio, Texas
    • ,
  • César O. Freytes

      Affiliations

    • South Texas Veterans Health Care System, Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital, San Antonio, Texas
    • The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas

Received 5 March 2009 ,Accepted 5 May 2009.

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 Financial disclosure: See Acknowledgments on page 1065.

PII: S1083-8791(09)00228-6

doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2009.05.004

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 15, Issue 9 , Pages 1060-1065 , September 2009

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