Esophageal varices and portal hypertensive gastropathy associated with hepatic veno-occlusive disease after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

International Journal of Hematology

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 231-232

  Mori, Takehiko ^a   Aisa, Yoshinobu ^a   Yajima, Tomoharu ^a   Shimizu, Takayuki ^a   Kato, Jun ^a   Nakazato, Tomonori ^a   Hibi, Toshifumi ^a   Ikeda, Yasuo ^a   Okamoto, Shinichiro ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; METHOTREXATE; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER VEIN OBSTRUCTION; PLASMAPHERESIS; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PROPHYLAXIS; RADIATION DOSE; STOMACH DISEASE; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEPATIC VENO-OCCLUSIVE DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; MIDDLE AGED; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 42049113863     PISSN: 09255710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12185-008-0023-5     Document Type: Letter

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