Toxoplasmic pneumonitis leading to fatal acute respiratory distress syndrome after engraftment in three bone marrow transplant recipients

Transplantation

Volumn 72, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1838-1840

  Ortonne, Nicolas ^a   Ribaud, Patricia ^a   Meignin, Veronique ^a,b   Sarfati, Claudine ^a   Esperou, Helene ^a   Devergie, Agnes ^a   Gluckman, Eliane ^a   Socie, Gerard ^a,b   Janin, Anne ^a,b  

^a SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Universitaire de Pathologie (UPRES)   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; BUSULFAN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; ETOPOSIDE; FANSIDAR; GANCICLOVIR; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 10; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PYRIMETHAMINE; STEROID; SULFADIAZINE; SULFADOXINE;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW APLASIA; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035892781     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200112150-00022     Document Type: Article

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