Graft-versus-host disease: case report and review of literature.
We describe a young patient with acute myeloid leukemia who, having been treated with allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, presented with acute graft-versus-host disease. One year later, leukemia relapse was treated with donor lymphocyte infusion and was followed by a new episode of acute graft-versus-host disease. The patient died 18 months after the transplantation, with evidence of chronic graft-versus-host disease in multiple organs.
Jing
Xin
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Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, USA.
Halat
Shams
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Meleg-Smith
Suzanne
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D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D002908:Chronic Disease; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006086:Graft vs Host Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology*; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000628:therapy*; D017710:Lymphocyte Transfusion