title: Pneumothorax in an early phase after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
abstract: Pneumothorax is very rare after early phase of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) and usually accompanied with pulmonary chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), such as bronchiolitis obliterans and bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia. The present study describes the case of a seventeen-year-old male diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia who underwent allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT). Pneumothorax occurred at day 43 after BMT. Pneumothorax occurred in early phase of HSCT is extremely rare. The early onset of acute GVHD and the entity of cytomegalovirus might worsen the pulmonary tissue damages for the onset of pneumothorax, indicating that we should be aware of the possibility to occur pneumothorax even in the early period after allogeneic HSCT.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Research Hospital, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo.
authors.forename: Yasuhiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ebihara
authors.forename: Shohei
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: Shinji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mochizuki
authors.forename: Masao
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tsukada
authors.forename: Yuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Taya
authors.forename: Toshiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kawakita
authors.forename: Seiko
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ooi
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Arinobu
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tojo
authors.forename: Kohichiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tsuji
keywords: air-leak syndrome; allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; pneumothorax