Coronary vessel involvement by chronic graft-versus-host disease presenting as sudden cardiac death [2]

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 655-656

  Prevost, D ^a   Taylor, G ^b   Sanatani, S ^a   Schultz, K R ^a  

^a BC CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; BUSULFAN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; ETOPOSIDE; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; STEROID; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LETTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; SKIN MANIFESTATION; TACHYPNEA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WHOLE BODY RADIATION; WISKOTT ALDRICH SYNDROME;

BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; FATAL OUTCOME; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; WISKOTT-ALDRICH SYNDROME;

EID: 5044241883     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1704625     Document Type: Letter

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