Acute Hemolysis in a Patient with Cytomegalovirus Pneumonitis Treated with Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIG)

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 786-788

  Coghill, James ^a   Comeau, Terrance ^a   Shea, Thomas ^a   Braddy, Linda ^a   Bandarenko, Nicholas ^a   Afenyi Annan, Araba ^a   Harvey, Donald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Pharmacology Grady Hospital ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FLUDARABINE; GANCICLOVIR; HUMAN IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MELPHALAN; METHOTREXATE; TACROLIMUS; VALGANCICLOVIR;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; AUTOLOGOUS HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG MEGADOSE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LETTER; LOW DRUG DOSE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINURIA; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL;

EID: 33745180204     PISSN: 10838791     EISSN: 15236536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2006.03.003     Document Type: Letter

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