Intensive extracorporeal photochemotherapy for severe acute hepatic graft-versus-host disease [1]

Transfusion

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1531-1532

  Perotti, Cesare ^a   Del Fante, Claudia ^a   Viarengo, Gianluca ^a   Salvaneschi, Laura ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HEMOGLOBIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHIMERA; CHOLESTASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER GRAFT; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; PHOTOPHERESIS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4844228242     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2004.00423.x     Document Type: Letter

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