Sangramiento digestivo asociado al tratamiento con filgrastim: efecto secundario infrecuente Translated title: Digestive bleeding associated to treatment with filgrastin: infrequent adverse side effect

Human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) is a hematopoietic hormone promoting the growth, proliferation, differentiation and maturation of myeloid and leukocytic lineages. G-csfs have been used to improve granulocyte count in neutropenic patients, reduce the incidence and duration of neutropenia in patients receiving cytotoxic chemotherapy and to mobilize peripheral blood stem cells prior to leukapheresis for using in both autologous and allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. In general, side-effects are mild to moderate and life threatening side-effects like splenic rupture are very rare. We herein, report a case of spontaneous splenic rupture secondary to high-dose G-CSF use (20 mcg/kg/day), in a healthy female allogeneic donor of peripheral-blood stem cell (PBSC) .

La enfermedad articular degenerativa, también conocida como osteoartrosis, afecta al 10 % de los adultos mayores de 60 años de edad. Se caracteriza principalmente por dolor de la articulación afectada, crepitación, rigidez matinal y limitación progresiva de los movimientos de esa articulación. Todo esto conduce a un desgaste parcial o completo del cartílago articular. El tratamiento de la osteoartrosis de la rodilla constituye un gran desafío. Los avances recientes en el uso de la medicina regenerativa sugieren que las células madre adultas pudieran representar una alternativa promisoria en el tratamiento de esta enfermedad. En una paciente femenina de 61 años de edad con osteoartrosis de la rodilla, se realizó el implante percutáneo de células mononucleares autólogas movilizadas a la sangre periférica mediante el factor estimulante de colonias granulocíticas, y se logró una rápida mejoría clínica y radiológica. Este resultado sugiere que el proceder empleado es un método factible, simple, seguro y menos costoso, para el tratamiento de las lesiones degenerativas articulares.

Neutropenia and infections are the most restrictive side effects during chemotherapy application. The granulocytic colonies stimulating factor activates the neutrophils, shortens the neutropenic period and can be effective against the potential risk of infection. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of LeukoCIM® (CIMAB, Havana). A retrospective observational study was carried out with data from the patients with neutropenic episodes enrolled in the open-label, non-randomized, multicenter, phase IV clinical trial. These patients were from Gustavo Aldereguía Lima hospital. They had been evaluated for one year. Demographic information, clinical data and side effects were analyzed. As prophylaxis indication LeukoCIM® was administrated 24-72 h after the last chemotherapy dose and as treatment when neutropenia was diagnosed. In both cases, a daily single 300 µg dose was administrated subcutaneously. The application of the next chemotherapy cycle on time was the main variable of response and the product safety was assessed by measuring the side effects. Forty seven patients with 95 neutropenic episodes were enrolled. The 82.1 % of episodes received their next chemotherapy cycle on time. The most frequent side effects were: bone pain and fever (11.2 % respectively), hyperuricemia (9.2 %), leukocytosis and neutrophilia (7.1 %) and increased LDH (6.1 %). LeukoCIM® was effective in patients receiving chemotherapy, because it accelerated neutrophil recovery, decreased the incidence of febrile neutropenia and improved delivery of protocol doses of chemotherapy on time. Additionally, this product was considered safe for the studied patients since just known adverse events were reported.