title: Autologous blood pleurodesis for pneumothorax complicating graft-versus-host disease-related bronchiolitis obliterans.
abstract: Bronchiolitis obliterans (BO) is a manifestation of chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) after allogeneic haemopoietic stem cell transplantation. Complications associated with this include persistent air-leak syndromes such as pneumothorax. Many methods have been described for treating this condition, both surgical and nonsurgical. We describe an 8-year-old boy with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia complicated by chronic GVHD-related BO, and subsequent pneumothorax with persistent air leak, who was treated successfully with autologous blood pleurodesis.
authors.affiliation: Paediatric Surgical Unit & Department of Paediatric Haematology, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield, UK.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chadwick
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Marven
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Vora
mesh_terms: D001769:Blood; D001989:Bronchiolitis Obliterans / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology; D002648:Child; D006086:Graft vs Host Disease / Q000150:complications*; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018700:Pleurodesis / Q000379:methods*; D011030:Pneumothorax / Q000628:therapy*; D054198:Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous