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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Medical Therapy

There is no ideal therapy for neutropenia, but recombinant G-CSF (granulocyte-colony stimulating factor) can be effective in chemotherapy patients, in patients with congenital forms of neutropenia including severe congenital neutropenia, autosomal recessive Kostmann's syndrome, cyclic neutropenia, myelokathexis, and some other causes...

Contraindicated medications

Neutropenia is considered an absolute contraindication to the use of the following medications:

• Ticlopidine