Fatal transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease in an immunocompetent recipient of a volunteer unit of red cells

Transfusion

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 885-888

  Triulzi, Darrell ^a   Duquesnoy, Rene ^b   Nichols, Lawrence ^b   Clark, Kenneth ^b   Jukic, Drazen ^b   Zeevi, Adriana ^b   Meisner, Dennis ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR TRANSFUSION MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ASCRIPTIN; FUROSEMIDE; GABAPENTIN; GROWTH FACTOR; HEMOGLOBIN; METOPROLOL TARTRATE; PANTOPRAZOLE; PARACETAMOL; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; STEROID;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BILE DUCT INJURY; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CANDIDIASIS; CASE REPORT; CHOLESTASIS; CYTOPENIA; DEATH; DIARRHEA; DYSPHAGIA; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHROCYTE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HAPLOTYPE; HEART SURGERY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HLA TYPING; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOPLASIA; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; RECIPIENT; SEPSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; SORE THROAT; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTE; TRANSFUSION ASSOCIATED GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE;

AGED; BLOOD DONORS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FATAL OUTCOME; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HLA ANTIGENS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE;

EID: 33744460228     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2006.00819.x     Document Type: Article

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