Stool smears for diagnosis of intestinal acute graft-versus-host disease.
A patient with severe diarrhea was successfully diagnosed as having acute intestinal GVHD on stool smear through detection of detached intestinal epithelial cells with apoptosis. Since a stool smear can be easily obtained non-invasively, it is a possible tool for the diagnosis of acute intestinal GVHD.
Hirano
K
K
Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.
Kondo
F
F
Kondo
Y
Y
Kurosawa
K
K
Suwabe
S
S
Noguchi
Y
Y
Miura
N
N
Kakuda
H
H
Sato
T
T
Niimi
H
H
D000208:Acute Disease; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000473:pathology; D006086:Graft vs Host Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007410:Intestinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D054198:Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / Q000628:therapy