A fatal case of autoimmune thrombocytopenia with an IgM anti-GPIb/IX following one antigen mismatched unrelated donor bone marrow transplantation

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 739-741

  Kottaridis, P D ^a,e   Rees, H ^b,e   Smith, G ^b,e   Garner, S F ^b,e   Perry, A R ^a,e   Peniket, A J ^a,e   Goldstone, A H ^a,e   Mackinnon, S ^a,e   Ouwehand, W H ^b,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STANDARDS AND CONTROL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT); Autoimmune thrombocytopenia; Platelet glycoprotein Ib IX

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; GLYCOPROTEIN IB; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; STEROID;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CASE REPORT; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HISTOINCOMPATIBILITY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0032939087     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1701651     Document Type: Article

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