Fatal autoimmune pancytopenia following bone marrow transplantation for aplastic anaemia

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 237-239

  De Lord, C ^a   Marsh, J C W ^a   Smith, J G ^b   Singer, C R J ^b   Gordon Smith, E C ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allogeneic BMT; Aplastic anaemia; Autoimmune haemolytic anaemia; Autoimmune pancytopenia; Immune thrombocytopenic purpura; PBSCT

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; AZATHIOPRINE; GRANULOCYTE ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; STEROID; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CASE REPORT; COMPLICATION; ENCEPHALITIS; FATALITY; HEMOLYSIS; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LYMPH NODE IRRADIATION; MALE; PANCYTOPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; ANEMIA, APLASTIC; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, AUTOIMMUNE; ASPERGILLOSIS; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; AZATHIOPRINE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYCLOSPORINE; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENCEPHALITIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; MALE; PANCYTOPENIA; PREDNISOLONE; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC; SPLENECTOMY;

EID: 0029782045     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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