Chronic graft-versus-host disease-related polymyositis as a cause of respiratory failure following allogeneic bone marrow transplant

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1117-1120

  Leano, A M ^a   Miller, K ^a   White, A C ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

BMT; Dropped head syndrome; GVHD; Polymyositis; Respiratory failure

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CD16 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD57 ANTIGEN; CD68 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CREATININE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSERINE; FRUCTOSE BISPHOSPHATE ALDOLASE; GADOLINIUM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; NIFEDIPINE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PREDNISONE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BREATHING MUSCLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; TRACHEOSTOMY; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

EID: 0033677310     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1702688     Document Type: Article

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