A case of cardiac localization of graft-versus-host disease after allogenic bone marrow transplantation

Italian Heart Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 60-63

  Cereda, Manuela ^b   Trocino, Giuseppe ^b   Pogliani, Enrico Maria ^a   Schiavina, Riccardo ^b  

^a SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Cardiothoracic Department   (Italy)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Immune system

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; METHOTREXATE; STEROID;

ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CARDIOTOXICITY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0037950480     PISSN: 1129471X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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