Transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease in immunocompetent patient: Early diagnosis and therapy

American Journal of Hematology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 84-86

  Sakurai, Masahiro ^a   Moizumi, Yoshimasa ^b   Uchida, Shigeharu ^c   Imai, Yoshimichi ^b   Tabayashi, Koichi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SENDAI CITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c JAPANESE RED CROSS MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

15 deoxyspergualin; Polymorphism analysis of microsatellite DNA; TA GVHD

Indexed keywords

15 DEOXYSPERGUALIN; CYCLOSPORIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EMERGENCY SURGERY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CYCLOSPORINE; DNA; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; GUANIDINES; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031946833     PISSN: 03618609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8652(199805)58:1<84::AID-AJH17>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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