Human herpesvirus-6 encephalitis followed by severe acute GVHD after a stem cell transplant from a microchimeric non-inherited maternal antigen (NIMA)-mismatched sibling [1]

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 411-413

  Muta, T ^a   Kamo, M ^a   Gondo, H ^a   Kato, K ^a   Eto, T ^a   Shibuya, T ^a   Fukuda, T ^b   Miyamoto, T ^b   Nagafuji, K ^b   Ichinohe, T ^c   Harada, M ^b  

^a HAMANOMACHI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; GANCICLOVIR; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HLA ANTIGEN; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS; VIRUS DNA;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLELE; ALLOGENEIC PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENCEPHALITIS; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HAPLOIDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LETTER; MALE; MICROCHIMERISM; MOTHER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; VIRUS DETECTION;

ADULT; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HERPESVIRUS 6, HUMAN; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; ROSEOLOVIRUS INFECTIONS; SIBLINGS;

EID: 20044363445     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1704770     Document Type: Letter

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