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Filgrastim

2 known interactions
2 brand names

Indications

  • Reduction in duration of neutropenia and incidence of febrile neutropenia in cytotoxic chemotherapy
  • Reduction in duration of neutropenia (and associated sequelae) in myeloablative therapy followed by bone-marrow transplantation (specialist use only)
  • Mobilisation of peripheral blood progenitor cells
  • Mobilisation of peripheral blood progenitor cells in normal donors
  • Severe congenital neutropenia and history of severe or recurrent infections (distinguish carefully from other haematological disorders) (specialist use only)

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Drug Interactions

Moderate interactions

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Safety Information

🤰Pregnancy guidance available
🤱Breastfeeding guidance available

Cautions

granulocyte-colony stimulating factors Malignant myeloid conditions; pre-malignant myeloid conditions; risk of splenomegaly and rupture—spleen size should be monitored; sickle-cell disease Cautions, f...

Side Effects

granulocyte-colony stimulating factors Common or very common Arthralgia; cutaneous vasculitis; dyspnoea; haemoptysis; headache; hypersensitivity; leucocytosis; pain; spleen abnormalities; thrombocytop...

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Brand Names

Neupogen(IN, PK, SA, AE, EG, ZA, NG)Grafeel(IN)
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Source: MedNext Audited Proprietary Dataset

Last reviewed: 2026

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