An unusual cause of acute abdomen following allogeneic transplantation: A zoonotic disease revisited

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1069-1070

  Buyck, H C E ^a   Holliman, R ^a,b   Else, J ^b   O'Regan, L ^a   Willis, F ^a   Grubnic, S ^b   Marsh, J ^a   Chakrabarti, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALEMTUZUMAB; AMIKACIN; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BUSULFAN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTARABINE; ETHAMBUTOL; FLUDARABINE; GENTAMICIN; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; IDARUBICIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; ISONIAZID; MEROPENEM; MOXIFLOXACIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; HYPOTENSION; ILEUS; IMMUNE RECONSTITUTION INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER GRANULOMA; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUTROPENIA; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REDUCED INTENSITY CONDITIONING; SIDE EFFECT; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ADULT; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MEXICO; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PERITONITIS, TUBERCULOUS; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 47849132249     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: 14765365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2008.29     Document Type: Article

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