Jelina Nguyen

Corresponding Author Doreen Pon College of Pharmacy, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, California, USA Department of Pharmacy Services, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, USA Correspondence: Doreen Pon (dpon@westernu.edu) Contribution: Conceptualization, Writing - original draft, Methodology, Writing - review & editing, Formal analysis, Data curation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, ​Investigation Search for more papers by this author

1 Introduction Patients undergoing autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (autoHSCT) usually receive high doses of chemotherapy, which leads to severe myelosuppression and infectious complications requiring treatment with intravenous antibiotics. Filgrastim is a recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) that stimulates the production and maturation of neutrophils.